John Blade
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Can't believe Sigma is making camera. Will be interested to see where it will go and hope it survive than Samsung.
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NeoGAF Camera Equipment Thread | MK II
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Didn't they already try this using a Foveon sensor?
JadedWriter
Member
Is there a such thing as a good cheap Umbrella holder or do I really have to shell out 30 bucks for one of the damn things?
pretty much
the MILC version is the same mount so they just made the body smaller.
They had the DP Merrill too I think. Slow as fuck, but apparently ridiculous sharpness and detail.
did you get the pink one?
No I got a regular old black one. Someone was selling one on ebay with two lenses, sd card and a carry case for 500.
If I had seen that one...
Yea the output is very good. I've seen a lot of comparison of the output between it and the Pixel Shift mode in K-3 II (which is basically trying to emulate the Foveon sensor).
Nice, are they the 18-55 and 50-200 WR lenses?
Astral/H3X
Member
Those Sigma SDs are hilarious. "Hi, I want a camera that's a mirrorless, but then I want to make sure that it has the same flange distance as a DSLR, completely negating the fact that you made it a MILC".
JadedWriter
Member
I like their lenses, I don't ever see myself getting one of their cameras though.
Yep. And the previous owner had everything but the manual, but they printed that out for me.
A Craigslist find... I wanted more of a beater. But it was priced really well and I love the titanium finish vs. the regular silver. The condition is almost too perfect. I showed it to a friend and he didn't believe it was 20 years old.
how much?
JadedWriter
Member
I'm going to be covering events for my job...I really wish they made an affordable 70-200 2.8 lens or a decent equivalent for crop sensors.
andythinkpad
Member
They do. What mount do you have?
I had a sigma that was pretty decent when I had my Canon, it was far cheaper than the Canon glass.
JadedWriter
Member
Nikon F mount. Sigma made a 2.8 50-150 but it's hard to find these days.
Can anyone recommend a good macro lens for the Canon 70D. I want to be able to take very, very closeup pictures and I want it to be good for filmmaking as well. I've been looking at the Canon EF 100mm 2.8, which seems like an amazing lens, but is it going to be the best I can get for extreme closeup photography?
Thanks for any advice!
Thanks for any advice!
QualityPixel
Banned
Are the Sigma or Tamron 70-200mm lenses out of the question? The more recent versions of those lenses have been pretty impressive and a fraction of the cost of their Nikon/Canon/Sony counterparts.
Depends on what you mean, but yes you need to buy it separately from their "app store." There's a free app for Android that does a similar thing though, but not as granular and feature-filled.
JadedWriter
Member
I keep hearing the recent Tamron is better since I don't think the Sigma version has been updated in years. I'm not sure if I want to walk into a room with what is essentially a 105-300mm lens. Plus I'm not rich, at all. If I get that lens I'd just rather get a D750 to go with it or at the very least a 610.
Sigma just announced the 50-100mm f1.8 a few days ago for APS-C cameras.
The 100mm is a superb lens. Another great option is the 180mm 3.5 L.
Why not just rent the lenses you need for the events rather than buying them? You should have lots of places in New York that do that.
JadedWriter
Member
Yes which is almost the same price as the 2.8 zooms. Considering the fact that I do intend to eventually go full frame and I get more reach with those zooms as well. It's something I'm going to eventually have to figure out at some point.
What's the insurance fee with that type of thing? Last time I even checked they had no third party lenses for rent.
QualityPixel
Banned
I've used www.lensrentals.com a few times, and it's been great. They even stocked a specific lens after I requested it.
StopMakingSense
Member
Online rental houses shouldn't need insurance for those, with an optional damage waiver, as opposed to brick and mortar rental houses which usually require it for anything.
JadedWriter
Member
I should check out lensrental.Com and just have the stuffed shipped to my job since sending stuff like that to my house is a pain since it's usually empty these days. Though I would prefer to just own the stuff.
StopMakingSense
Member
Maybe talk to your job and you could expense the rentals.
JadedWriter
Member
Pfft a certain politician is fucking with our budget.
JadedWriter
Member
I'm afraid to Google that thing. Probably costs more than I make in a year.
jongkookie
Member
Haha it ain't actually that bad(around $10K). I've been talking to my boss about it the past few weeks, but we've kinda settled on the Sony A7R II for our 4k video needs since we can easily get a Metabones or whatever mount to hook up my Nikon lenses... plus that'll also let us get 3 A7R II's lol.
JadedWriter
Member
Well that's not the nightmare scenario I thought it was, still will never pass through these hands. I'd like to mess around with an A7 long term. I hope it's UI is better than the A6000 though, too many damn menus. I'd really have to relearn a camera with how Sony operates.
I dropped off 21 rolls of film for processing. Mostly from this past weekend in San Francisco. I shot a bunch of stuff in Chinatown leading up to and during the new year parade. And then I spent most of the next day in the Mission taking random pics. The Mission's real good for street photography...
10K for the brain
Astral/H3X
Member
Same menus, but more dials so you see it less. And it's not that bad unless you obsessively like changing things that aren't in the Fn menu.
JadedWriter
Member
Depending on situations I usually just change my iso, but I'm used to just having that being a dedicated button on my camera. I guess I could make that a custom button if I'm not mistaken right? I really have no interest in investing into the expensive Sony lens ecosystem, but I'm always trying to be open minded on the whole thing.
I really hope other camera manufacturers copy this from the Pentax K1:
Flip it into "ISO" and that third wheel turns into an ISO control so you can fully control the camera in manual mode. Making ISO a separate button or menu option made sense in the film era.
A quick way to change between manual and auto ISO would also be great. Memory recall can do that, but it feels to me like a way of shifting the burden onto the consumer instead of fixing the interface. I don't dislike them, but I don't think they should count as a fix to a bad interface.
Flip it into "ISO" and that third wheel turns into an ISO control so you can fully control the camera in manual mode. Making ISO a separate button or menu option made sense in the film era.
A quick way to change between manual and auto ISO would also be great. Memory recall can do that, but it feels to me like a way of shifting the burden onto the consumer instead of fixing the interface. I don't dislike them, but I don't think they should count as a fix to a bad interface.
JadedWriter
Member
It's actually not too hard to switch in and out of auto iso on my camera, it's just something I like to have control of myself. I know different bodies have the iso button layout differently. It's in a completely different place on a D810 for example, whole layout is different compared to the 7100. I'm not even sure which one is better to be honest.
I'd just love it if switching auto ISO on/off was as easy as switching between AF/MF or M/A/S/P. That small trip into the menu (I assume your camera has a button and pressing it gives you a menu with various ISO options including auto) feels like a chore when it's done the fiftieth time to me.
Maybe just my use case, but I typically shoot raw at ISO 100 (boosting in post unless it's very dark) and JPEGs where in not planning on doing any PP with auto ISO. I don't do it for work and have limited storage so quite often I'll switch to JPEG knowing that I will never have time to post process anyways, but when I shoot raw I obsess over not having a single highlight be blown
Maybe just my use case, but I typically shoot raw at ISO 100 (boosting in post unless it's very dark) and JPEGs where in not planning on doing any PP with auto ISO. I don't do it for work and have limited storage so quite often I'll switch to JPEG knowing that I will never have time to post process anyways, but when I shoot raw I obsess over not having a single highlight be blown
JadedWriter
Member
No menu. Iso button, hold it down, scroll with shutter speed wheel to increase or decrease iso. For auto iso on or off its the same thing just using the aperture wheel to turn it on or off, it's quite seamless. Now with my last camera which was a bridge camera it was quite menu driven, screw that noise.
JadedWriter
Member
If I'm not mistaken I thought below iso 100 was a very body specific thing. I think the expensive Leica's can, but I'm not sure. If I ever do anything astro related I'd have to see what's the slowest shutter speed I can do and how to access it. I know certain other dial settings are some very weird automatic settings that I opt to not use.
What did you intend on purchasing? There's learning your camera and at the same time there's learning your lens.
Oh no, I meant when you scroll past ISO 100 you get to ISO Auto similar to how when you scroll up the shutter speed past 30 seconds you get bulb (in manual mode at the very least).
I used ISO 100 because that's the base in most DSLRs.
JadedWriter
Member
Oh, now I understand. Yeah I think Nikon pretty much has the same way of turning auto iso on and off across their DSLR range. Seems to make jumping from body to body easy for the most part minus the difference between other things. The 750 is almost laid out the same as my 7100, the 810 on the other hand...much different. Thing got rid of the mode dial, now it's just a mode button and you hold that down and use a scroll wheel to change it. I can't imagine how different Canon's are, but so far the Sony cameras just weird me out the most. What even is that bulb symbol?