My first day with the MKII

That is truly amazing.

Any tricks for getting the reflected gloss on the cars or boats? Other than bribing the sun to shine brightly and burn through the clouds

I've read your post several times. It's a poem.

Lots of wax in the pits! It's neat when you get it. I love it cause the boats don't have windshields so it's easy to get their eyes is they're not wearing glasses or goggles.

It's the passion.

Thanks...

RFMSports wrote:
Lots of wax in the pits! It's neat when you get it.

The local road track usually has various club car meets and wax is generally not in the tool box....it would take away room for the duct tape Having the sun out must help too If at first, you don't succeed......

Oooomph!

They just go on and on If I got the right part, I really like this one (l5c0983). I am saving up for one of those...

Martin

Hey Mills.... have you heard anything from CDW about delivery of your camera yet? I thought I saw you were #3 in line?

I've been shaking the trees with my order, but nothing in the pipeline for me yet!

I got a call today from another source out of the blue that has one for me if I want it... it will cost me a couple hundred more though.... decision... decisions! ! !

Nice shots Jim. Good to see the MK-II being used real world and not for pictures of the cat or ducks in the local park.

CTG, I go from 1.3 to 1.6 crop factor all the time and there is no need to consider lenses at all. The differences in real life are so small it isn't worth considering. Maybe landscape and architectural photographers would notice, but it does not bother the likes of Jim or I for the types of thing we do.

I met a Canon dealer at the race circuit on Sunday who was telling me he had 6 customers with MK-II's on order and when he got his first one in he called them all and not one was in a position to have the cash to pay for it. He shifted it on e-bay!!! I wonder how many dealer's MK-II lists are like this.

LOL Kenny! Actually I did get a picture of some seagulls that looked kinda cool. But they were not at the pond. They were at the local garbage processing area down the road.

I will withhold comment until I see some ducks!!

j/k, Jim, great shots. It looks like you're going to do real well with this gem.

Tom W wrote:
I will withhold comment until I see some ducks!!

j/k, Jim, great shots. It looks like you're going to do real well with this gem.

I'll try and get some ducks this weekend. The camera does make it easier to pay more attention to the artisitc aspects of photography rather than the technical. It does what you want it to, when you want it to.

RFMSports wrote:

Tom W wrote:
I will withhold comment until I see some ducks!!

j/k, Jim, great shots. It looks like you're going to do real well with this gem.

I'll try and get some ducks this weekend. The camera does make it easier to pay more attention to the artisitc aspects of photography rather than the technical. It does what you want it to, when you want it to.

Well, I'm living in the dark ages since I still think the 10D is the cat's @$$! Even though I have to pay a bit of attention to it, I generally let the camera do the work and it does quite well a good deal of the time. And it works faster and better than my Elan II did.

I just cannot fathom how fine that 1D-II must be.

I'm thankful in a way that I don't have $4500 laying around.

The 10D is an awesome camera and I'll keep mine for some time to come. At this point I have absolutely no intentions of getting rid of it. The MKII is remarkable. I would avoid seeing one in person as you will not want to let loose of it. The plastic in your wallet will leap out onto to counter begging to be used. They'll probably be $2500 in two years anyway...

Thankfully, the only local camera shops sell a very limited array of Canon products, but a wide selection of Quantaray!

But, B&H is but a mouse click away!

Great shots RFM, it is the photos that you take that make me try harder to get my skills up to a level like that

reading your report, it almost makes me go out and buy a Mk11, but hate to say, with the 7g price tag in my country, I don't think so.

Anyway it is good to see someone enjoying shotting subjects with a camera that trys it very best to help you enjoy it

I guess that is why I still like my 10D