Canon 1Ds Mark II review at luminous-landscape.com

CyberDyneSystems wrote:
Aaaargh...

Now I'm fighting "The Click"

I bet $20 on "the click" :P

You think that's bad? I refinanced about 6 months ago and knocked $800 off the monthly payment. Each month.


Oops: Just realized it was the 1Ds - make that 3 payments.


I really do have to move out of Boston. I hear about warm places, and want to go... But then I think about what I have - 2000+ miles of shoreline within 2 hours drive. 3 sets of "mountains" within 2 hours drive. 2 of the top 50 birding spots in the US with 2 hours drive. 2 more within 5 hours. The best darn foliage in the world. 2 of the best sports teams in the country, and the Bruins are *still* undefeated this year. Some of the oldest places in the US, and full of history. Simply gorgeous countryside once you get away from the city.

I have yet to find a part of the country that can give me the beauty of New England, and I'd miss this place every October.

There's still affordable property in Maine...


Oh yeah.. I clicked...

But I did NOT add one to the Shopping Cart :P

I was going to ask for one for Xmas too. Then I started thinking ... what if she starts getting curious about how much I've spent so far on my camera equipment?

I decided I'd ask for a few little, inexpensive, non camera things instead and have a Merry Xmas

Geeee, you got me to feeling that I should move, that I was missing all that, then I realized I live only about an hour or so away from all the times you listed (except the shoreline ... that's minutes from my house )

Hmmmmm, 1Ds MkII minus travel and moving expenses? No, I really can't, should I?

You're right about living in New England!

I don't want it - no popup flash.

come to think of it, where's the popup flash on the 1D-2?

Yeah, I spent 37 years with 1/2 mile of the ocean, and the last 10 years on a cove in Salem Harbor.

Ayuh! Love the place, hate the winter.


And yet there's some canuckleheads around here who live even further north! "10 months of winter and 2 months of lousy snow-shoeing."

What is this "snow" thing?

OK, we do get it here once in a while. Had plenty of it when I lived in Northeast Ohio.

Scottes - you considered down towards Providence? Winters seem milder south of the Cape and, while you may be further away from Plum Island, you're closer to Block Island.

I wish I was back in New England!

I don't like Rhode Island. It's too flat.

If I moved anywhere in NE it would be someplace like Rochester, NH. Only an hour to the White Mountains, Plum Island, or Portland, ME. That covers a lot of scenery and wildlife, no doubt.

Alas, being in the computer industry I'm much better off near Boston. You don't find many computer jobs in the White Mountains, and I like the freedom to pick and choose.

I'd take a 1DMKII over this anyday...

wait I take that back...

but.....the high megapix count is a pain in the butt though... anything other than huge poster sized prints, such abundance of pixels are not needed, and it just eats up memory cards and is more taxing on the comp to post process.

I'd be happy to suffer through all that excess resolution..

But I totally agree with you re: post processing horse power! When I switched from 10D ad 1D to the 1D MkII's 8.2 MP RAW files.. my workflow started to grind to a halt! A 16 bit tiff at that res is nearly 50 MB. Add a dupe layer and your near 100MB...

If I hadn't blown all this $$ on lenses I'd be in the market for a new PC right now just to keep up

With the 1DsMkII.. at DOUBLE the res of the 1D MkII???

Definately time for a DUAL Opteron!

Rochester's not in the White Mountains, not by a fair piece. It's (was, 35 years ago, any way) a nice place though. Spent s aummer there in summer stock. And have you looked in the NW part of RI? I don't recall a lot more hilly terrain around Boston - just the same drumlins and moraines . . . Plus, not totally out of range of 128.

That's why I don't mind the winter. It's not so bad as "up north" yet we do get some cold weather and some snow, just not a huge degree of either ... just enough! (then again, ask me about March ... )

I live just south of the middle of R.I. and I'm a couple minutes from the bay, 20 minute to Newport, 20 minutes to Providence, a little better than 2 hours to the NH mountains, a little better than 2 hours from New York (if I ever want to go there ... )

My favorite is being around the water and Narragansett bay ... the lighthouses, sailboats, beaches ... yet I live in the country even though I'm only minutes from the shore.

No, not much in the way of mountains or even hills where I am, but I'm a lot closer to them than RI. And I camp near Foster, so I'm fairly familiar the area. But I gotta have the mountains...

In any case, if I'm going to move it will be to some place with less winter and more spring & fall I guess. Moving 50 miles or 500 miles is pretty much the same in my book, so I might as well make it worthwhile.