POTN Aussie Club #4: a.k.a. Angus' Buy, Sell and Spel Thread

Warrenism wrote in post #7027531
No, been there done that. We can talk about the state of affairs regarding Clarence's love life though....

Haha! Real subtle Warren.

yeah... what do you wanna know?

tangcla wrote in post #7027838
yeah... what do you wanna know?

well its non existent atm right?
Or did you reignite the passion for your long distance flame. :P

tangcla wrote in post #7027838
yeah... what do you wanna know?

Are you free tomorrow night

ed. wrote in post #7026291
Is it true they have a dedicated board/processor for AF?

As far as I'm aware, ALL Canon dSLRs have dedicated processors for AF. The DIGICs don't handle that stuff.

As for speed and accuracy, some 50D owners report the AF being as good as their Mark IIIs. I've got a 50D but no 1D III, so I can't verify. I will be looking at the ID IV when it comes out though, mainly for the better high-ISO performance. That's the one thing which kinda nags me off about the 5D II - the AF.

Collin85 wrote in post #7028041
As for speed and accuracy, some 50D owners report the AF being as good as their Mark IIIs. I've got a 50D but no 1D III, so I can't verify.

Really? Wow, I hadn't seen that.

I think choosing between the current 5DII and the ID series would be a tough call unless you have a clearly predominate need. I'd like really good AF and really good high ISO I don't mind my 40Ds at all in either area, but as new things come out it's always good to keep an eye out hehehe

S7000 wrote in post #7022691
She deserved everything she gets mate.

I'm going back again today, but this time I ain't using the big white lens. I feel the safety of my genitals are at jeopardy should she see me again.

kja wrote in post #7028057
Really? Wow, I hadn't seen that.

Yeah, take a look at some of the 50D comments by owners of both 1D III and 50D in the EOS forum over the past month. My own personal write-up (https://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthre​ad.php?t=614858) spoke about a slightly better performance over the 40D, but since I've never properly used a 1D III I couldn't comment about that.

Now.. too bad about the 50D's high-ISO performance.. Let's just say, I'm also keepin' my 30D.

LOL that's what I had been hearing about the 50D so I wasn't even tempted by it. I'm finding more and more uses for shooting at high ISO so that's my aim currently...

kja wrote in post #7028092
LOL that's what I had been hearing about the 50D so I wasn't even tempted by it. I'm finding more and more uses for shooting at high ISO so that's my aim currently...

I guess you get what you pay for.
It would be unrealistic to think that xxD series would ever attain the ISO quality of the 5D whilst still having the AF capability on par with a 1Dx.
I reckon you will have to make the migration over to the 1Dx at some point Kristen should you continue to push the creativity and technical boundaries.

Collin85 wrote in post #7028083
Now.. too bad about the 50D's high-ISO performance.. Let's just say, I'm also keepin' my 30D.

3200 aint that bad.
6400 and 12800 does leave you wanting more though i guess

Warrenism wrote in post #7027970
well its non existent atm right?
Or did you reignite the passion for your long distance flame. :P

Well, I figured I'd give it a chance... she's coming here Jan 30.

ed. wrote in post #7027986
Are you free tomorrow night

Only for you...
(P.S. I'm not gay but my boyfriend Ed is )

Warrenism wrote in post #7028135
It would be unrealistic to think that xxD series would ever attain the ISO quality of the 5D whilst still having the AF capability on par with a 1Dx.

But, but, but I WANT it!

Then again, POTN and the net would so quiet if people couldn't continue to **** about how a company didn't do the updates they *should* have done

And you'd go with a 1D series before the new 5D II? How come?

Warrenism wrote in post #7028135
quality of the 5D whilst still having the AF capability on par with a 1Dx.

1D3 is your solution, or if you only use centre point AF the 5d2, the centre point is meant to keep up just as well as the 1d3

Warrenism wrote in post #7028147
3200 aint that bad.
6400 and 12800 does leave you wanting more though i guess

I didn't find 3200 much better than that on the 30D, but that's at 100%. So on one hand, one should congratulate Canon for being able to maintain the level of noise of the 20/30D while nearly doubling the MP count. That's quite an achievement and so this will suit anyone needing to print very large. But on the other, it can be quite annoying for anyone who doesn't crave MPs - NOT because the noise is bad at 100%, but rather that it doesn't get too much better when you downrez to 8MP. That's the main problem (which I spoke about in my write-up). This is to be expected however, since downrezzing in post doesn't decrease the signal-to-noise ratio, so you're only 'averaging out' the noise.

So that brings me onto the so-called saviour sRAW1, which supposedly uses pixel-binning technique. That would mean the SN ratio WOULD increase, meaning better performances for sure over the 30D AT the 30D's 8MP resolution. But here's where it gets muddy.. some people say sRAW1 is damn awesome. Unfortunately, I haven't seen much of an improvement though. Maybe I ain't shooting ISO 3200+ enough. :p

I still think the 50D suits my purposes excellently though. I want to get into stock photography so I actually WANT the 15MP. Some of my images on Alamy keep getting rejected because of artifacting introduced by uprezzing my 8MP images in order to meet their darn 45MB uncompressed JPEG requirement). Secondly I don't shoot high-ISO often (usually stay 100-800), so the 50D serves me brilliantly there.

How's your 50D going? I bet you, the 50D and that 10-22 are having looooots of fun lately.