Fuji S2 Pro vs. Canon 1D Mark II (800K of Images Warning)

Great idea on the FEL metering and I will try it when possible, but usually the lighting is changing so fast and I am moving to avoid microphone stands, monitors, guitar necks, water bottles, bright white towels (they should get black towels to hang on their stands!) and other extrania that the correct exposure changes pretty dramatically. But perhaps with more experience and lots of experimentation I can significantly improve.

I am going to use sRGB and lots of saturation for my next series of tests, but I am also fairly convinced that I should really bite the bullet and use RAW whenever I am not totally time constrained such as on my rare newspaper 'stringer' shoots where they would like the pictures before the event even occurs!

One big issue was the autofocus and I am hoping that improves in two ways: for my sports images I expect that bumping the CFn setting to fastest AF responsiveness will keep the girls in focus, and for the concert images I am hoping that that 1.1.0 firmware upgrade from 1.0.3 will significantly improve the lowlight AF.

Again, thanks for your feedback.

Here is another thing I learned in low light situation with available light. get yourself a ST-E2. The focus beams that it sends out covers all the 45 points, and it does it WELL.

I use my XSdrive II hard disk storage device as USB2 card reader, copy the RAW images from cards to a folder on PC and point RSE to that folder.

Oh, I like the sound of that ST-E2 (having done a little research) ... I'm putting it on the list!

And so it is "normal" to pull the CF card from the camera to get at the images! I have always used the Fuji firewire (only) connector right from the camera.

Funny you should mention this,,...

When I was still using a 10D I was upset by the lack of a true spot meter,. (10D has a 9% "partial" mode)
When I got the 1D MkII a year ago I used Spot a lot,. and learned the lessons I mention above..

Bow,. I use the same "partial" metering that the 10D had much more often for both performance work and my bird photos..

You may want to give partial metering a try next time as opposed to spot or center weight,. on the mkii it is 9% as well,. between Spot and Centerweighted..

You can choose your way. I prefer external reader because the I don't have to handle the camera in my messy PC workplace and I also like to avoid possibly wearing out the weather sealing (the cover over the connectors). External reader is also just like a hard disk, so it does not need any Canon software to work.

I think the first 2 pictures can't be compared because the angle is different. :S

CDS, thanks yet again! I will put it on my list of things to experiment with when I have access to a live performance for more than "first three songs." Actually I expect to have a long shooting gig with a Beatles tribute band on the 9th and hope to do the whole shoot with the Canon, although I will have my Fuji backpack in the backseat of my Silverado parked inside the casino [oh, he of little faith.] I am meeting them with the intention of doing "backstage", "makeup", "sound check", and "live performance" sessions. I'll load software on my laptop ... I assume I can download direct from the camera via firewire (I still haven't figured this piece out yet) under XP Pro SP2 ... does RSE do this?

On the 22nd I expect to shoot a professional boxing match alongside Tom Casino, an award winning photographer of boxers, who actually was the final and most convincing straw in my conversion from Nikon/Fuji to Canon when he had me shoot next to him at my first boxing match, at which my equipment and I got spattered with sweat and blood (kind of an initiation I guess).

Break a leg at the Match (do you say that to Photographers who are going to be near fighters? )

Let us know how things turn out

I LOVE this thread! It shows how truely helpful P.O.T.N. can be.
-Bruce

It's an old thread though - some 14 months old.

David

And here is the OP, still learning new things from POTN after all that time ... I guess that's what POTN is all about, eh?

But I do still spot meter on the face!

Bruce, I couldn't put you on my ignore list!

Wow... this one is pretty old.

Me, or the thread?

LOL, I'll let you decide.