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Best Wide-Angle lens digital camera?/Lens?

Dubb - Go with the 5D and a Sigma 12-24mm. It's got exceptionally low distortion considering how wide it is, and if you want to go with a T/S lens later on you'll already have a FF body. That said, as long as there is a profile for it, you can just use PTlens to correct lens distortion and the...
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- Post #48
- Nov 18, 2007
- Forum: Digital Cameras and Video
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Flash Bracket - Use flash wireless or get the sync cable?

Yes, the wireless triggering is done optically through a "pre-flash" of sorts. This introduces a lag-time between when you press the shutter and when the flash fires/picture is taken. This pre-flash has the negative side-effect of causing people to blink. Also, if the preflash doesn't reflect...
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- Post #2
- Oct 20, 2007
- Forum: Digital Cameras and Video
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About to make my first digital SLR purchase, please give me some feedback on lenses

I'm with touchmyichi. The 40D is great, but with the 5D around $2200 (and under 2K used) I would go that route. It's not a clear-cut choice, but it's my experience that it would be better for shooting on your trip. The larger viewfinder is reason #1, as with the 5D you'll be able to manually...
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- Post #38
- Oct 18, 2007
- Forum: Digital Cameras and Video
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Photo Management

I use Bridge for my photo management. I don't know if you're going to end up using PS to edit your images, but if you are I'd take a hard look at Bridge (which comes with PS) or Lightroom. Adobe's Camera RAW plugin is great, and being able to load images directly into PS w/ the plugin is a great...
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- Post #23
- Oct 14, 2007
- Forum: Digital Cameras and Video
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Best Wide-Angle lens digital camera?/Lens?

Well, a D80 body and a Tokina 12-24/4 is $1375 on B&H. Add another $50 for memory card, wired/wireless remote and shipping and you're looking at $1425. This is all assuming you buy new. I would buy any body you choose new for the warranty, but I would buy any lens you get used as lenses are...
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- Post #8
- Sep 21, 2007
- Forum: Digital Cameras and Video
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Post Your Current Photo Gear

I moved from a D70 to a D80. The D80 is better in almost every way *except* ISO noise and flash sync speed. I have been really dissapointed in the D80 regarding it's high-ISO performance from day-one. It's something I deal with a lot and it's pretty-much a stop worse than the D70 was. I work...
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- Post #54
- Sep 19, 2007
- Forum: Digital Cameras and Video
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Dual-boot XP and Vista Problems

Hey guys. I'm trying to dual boot XP Pro and Vista Business and can't get the default bootloader to see Vista. Currently I've got XP installed on a partition one hard drive, and Vista installed on a partition on another drive. If I boot the computer with the Vista CD in the drive (but not boot...
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- Thread
- Sep 19, 2007
- Replies: 3
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Need help with HDV cam usage...and requirements to edit the vids...

1080i footage is cool, because if your final output is SD, you can do 60FPS for slow-mo effects by exporting a sequence of frames and using a combination of Photoshop and Bridge (for batch renaming only, you could use any other batch renaming program). Using batch actions in PS, split each frame...
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- Post #5
- Sep 15, 2007
- Forum: Digital Cameras and Video
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Need help with HDV cam usage...and requirements to edit the vids...

HDV is a similar bitrate as standard DV, so from a storage standpoint you're looking at the same as with DV. The exception to this would be if you are going to be using an intermediate format for easier editing, in which can you're storage requirements go up by a factor of at least 5. HDV uses...
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- Post #3
- Sep 14, 2007
- Forum: Digital Cameras and Video
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Post Your Current Photo Gear

I'll chime in on my photographic goodies. lol Bodies: Nikon D80 Nikon N80 Lenses: Tokina 16-50/2.8 Nikon 35/2 Nikon 50/1.8 Flash: Nikon SB-600 + SB-16 sync cord Printer: Epson 2200
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- Post #45
- Sep 13, 2007
- Forum: Digital Cameras and Video
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Critique My Photography

As a graphic designer, I took a *ton* of photography courses in school. If you have an interest in photography in general, than I would go that route. You'll be a better photographer for it, but you won't be tied down to it as a career. If you really do want to pursue photojournalism, then I...
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- Post #15
- Sep 13, 2007
- Forum: Digital Cameras and Video
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Using a Gray card to get the w/b for tricky lighting...

the second link has some reviews of gray cards for WB purposes. Also, check these guys out: http://usa.gretagmacbethstore....i%20Gray%20Balance.htm http://www.rawworkflow.com/products/whibal/index.html there is also the expo-disc: http://www.expoimaging.net/
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- Post #5
- Sep 12, 2007
- Forum: Digital Cameras and Video
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Using a Gray card to get the w/b for tricky lighting...

magomago, I think you are a bit confused on the subject. Are you talking about white balance or exposure? A gray card's primary use is to meter off of, that's why having a lighter or darker card makes a difference. For WB, as long as the surface you are trying to set the WB is neutral, it...
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- Post #3
- Sep 11, 2007
- Forum: Digital Cameras and Video
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Shopping for a DSLR

As teatime0315 suggested, I would definitely look into used equipment. Lenses in particular are built to last (it seems like they're one of the few things that are these days) and you can stretch your money further that way.
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- Post #8
- Sep 3, 2007
- Forum: Digital Cameras and Video
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Raw vs JPG

RAW is superior for most shooting IMHO because A) it's not compressed (or compressed in a less obtrusive manner than JPG) B) it features more color depth C) no processing adjustments are made, so you can control the level of sharpening D) you can think about photos in quantifiable photographic...
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- Post #7
- Aug 29, 2007
- Forum: Digital Cameras and Video

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