-= 70D owners unite! Post up pics and discuss!

GeorgeMN wrote in post #16900907

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House Finch

Really like the House Finch pic. The color, lighting, bokeh, and how the Finch is sitting inside of a natural frame of sorts, all elements are very interesting. Good job!

My 70d will be here tomorrow. I'm a little excited

Congrats to all those with recent acquisitions...

cepaw wrote in post #16902823
My 70d will be here tomorrow. I'm a little excited

Question:

Does the 70D come with Video cables??

IT did come with a white transfer cable.

I'm gathering all of my original 60D box items and came across video cables and I don't see such cables in with my 70D...

70d with a Canon 70-200 and a Tokina 100-400 which worked better than I thought
C and C as always
these are just a few
Its a pain to cut and paste code from flikr
Mike Meyers track at the University of Texas

the discus crew pic I took
I let someone else take a crew pic with me in it
I had it set all they had to do was put the hammer down
5 pics OOF FML SMH

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Nice captures Burnett , some advice to the scenes if you crop the photo to much you loose the whole story in the composition . If it,s the limit in your focal lenght i would choose a other lens to capture the whole scene. Or 2 camera,s one tele and one wide.
I force myself to do that too and with a 20 + MP camera it's easy to crop afterwards.
First photo with the gun nice timing

Great captures again!
I like the moonshot, Richard! Very nice and a lot of detail!

A little spider:

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Oeh...nice photos, Richard! The bokeh of the third is beautiful!

Thx Bas
Funny sometimes you just have to turn around to discover something completely different.

I see you like the macro's a lot. good stuff.

Immaculens wrote in post #16902905
Question:

Does the 70D come with Video cables??

IT did come with a white transfer cable.

I'm gathering all of my original 60D box items and came across video cables and I don't see such cables in with my 70D...

this is from the B&H web site
in the box
http://static.bhphoto.​com …s1000x1000/IMG_​324726.jpg

Will and Lukas,

Thank you for your input on the 70D setup. At the moment, I'm following the recommendations in David Busch's 70D book.

I also try to keep my shutter speeds up there for birds in flight. I try to keep it at 1250 as well.

I tend to shoot in AV but I'm comfortable with manual as well. I find that AV works well for me most of the time.

I also use evaluative metering.

Aperture: f/8 most of the time, but we have lots of bright sunlight here so ymmv.

I need to learn how to use back button focusing. I have read a bit about it but haven't taken the time to set it up and get comfortable with it.

I use IS mode 1 as well.

I've played around with the center zone AF but sort of use center point most of the time.

I don't use auto ISO. I set the ISO where it needs to be for the environment in which I'm shooting.
I turn off all the options for in camera processing in Menu 4.

C.Fn II: autofocus.

1: Tracking sensitivity: +1. Busch suggests this setting for BIF.
2: #1: center
3. AI servo 1st image priority: I choose "center" because Busch says to the right might slow your shot down just enough that you might miss BIF photographs.
4. Center
6. Continue focus search.
7. I allow all AF modes though I mostly use center point as I noted above.

I not married to these settings, obviously. Over time, I may make adjustments as necessary.

So that's my less than 2 cents.

Phoenixkh wrote in post #16903484
Will and Lukas,

Thank you for your input on the 70D setup. At the moment, I'm following the recommendations in David Busch's 70D book.

I also try to keep my shutter speeds up there for birds in flight. I try to keep it at 1250 as well.

I tend to shoot in AV but I'm comfortable with manual as well. I find that AV works well for me most of the time.

I also use evaluative metering.

Aperture: f/8 most of the time, but we have lots of bright sunlight here so ymmv.

I need to learn how to use back button focusing. I have read a bit about it but haven't taken the time to set it up and get comfortable with it.

I use IS mode 1 as well.

I've played around with the center zone AF but sort of use center point most of the time.

I don't use auto ISO. I set the ISO where it needs to be for the environment in which I'm shooting.
I turn off all the options for in camera processing in Menu 4.

C.Fn II: autofocus.

1: Tracking sensitivity: +1. Busch suggests this setting for BIF.
2: #1: center
3. AI servo 1st image priority: I choose "center" because Busch says to the right might slow your shot down just enough that you might miss BIF photographs.
4. Center
6. Continue focus search.
7. I allow all AF modes though I mostly use center point as I noted above.

I not married to these settings, obviously. Over time, I may make adjustments as necessary.

So that's my less than 2 cents.

I use auto ISO a lot because with BIF you change rapidly from light situations
(ground to air or shades, sun ect) All these settings in C mode makes it easy to
concentrate on focus and composition. 1/1250 sec is my startingpoint with
shutterspeed priority ,F8 to F11 is mostly the correct apeture, just like with planes
in my experience.

evelakes wrote in post #16903412
Thx Bas
Funny sometimes you just have to turn around to discover something completely different.

I see you like the macro's a lot. good stuff.

Indeed! Yes, ik like shooting macro. But the main reason is that I can shoot macro in my garden and do that sometimes for a few minutes because I don't have a lot of time to go out at the moment. But..in june I'll be visiting Italy and I 'll be shooting less macro!

Phoenixkh wrote in post #16903484
Will and Lukas,


I also try to keep my shutter speeds up there for birds in flight. I try to keep it at 1250 as well.

I tend to shoot in AV but I'm comfortable with manual as well. I find that AV works well for me most of the time.

C.Fn II: autofocus.

1: Tracking sensitivity: +1. Busch suggests this setting for BIF.
2: #1: center
3. AI servo 1st image priority: I choose "center" because Busch says to the right might slow your shot down just enough that you might miss BIF photographs.
4. Center
6. Continue focus search.
7. I allow all AF modes though I mostly use center point as I noted above.

I not married to these settings, obviously. Over time, I may make adjustments as necessary.

So that's my less than 2 cents.

So when you are shooting BIF you use the TV mode (to be able to set the shutter at 1250), and for everything else the AV mode? Or do you use mainly AV and set the AV to a value that is according to the shutter speed of 1250?