Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 09:38:52 -0500 (EST)
From: Patrice Chiniara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: EOS Canon cameras in the X-Box
Nikon and Minolta have white lenses too, by the way...
I had no idea that Nikon and Minolta have white lenses. I saw a Nikon cata
I was playing the game NFL Fever on the X-Box at a local store. I noticed that there
is a photographer depicted in one of the end zones and another one on the sideline. I
entered the replay mode and took a look at the photographer: yep, he has a long, white
lens barrel!
I wonder if Microso
I bought the G2. Most of the the above issues apply, except I haven't
noticed trouble with my EX flashes (except for the Sigma EF 500 Super,
which isn't really an EX) or the color blooming. I have also been quite
frustrated with the focus on several occasions. My biggest
disappointment with the G2
This may just be user error, but something odd happened last week while shooting with
the 420EX/Elan7E. I was taking pictures with the flash mounted, screwed in, and
turned on. All of a sudden, the camera wouldn't recognize the flash (the flash
indicator in the viewfinder was not lighting and
Michael Reichmann's Luminous Landscape adds another review (in addition to the EOS-1D
review), one of the 400/4 DO lens. http://www.luminous-landscape.com/400-do.htm
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My remote control for my TV is dying, so I bought a universal remote from One for All,
so that I can consolidate my TV, VCR, and DVD remotes. But it occurred to me that the
remote control for the Elan 7 (the RC-1) is also an IR controller. Can a universal
remote be programmed to emulate the f
From: "BlueSky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: EOS Elan 7 flash compensation for fill-in flash
> From: Michael Fontana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I'd like to know how you recommend setting the Elan 7 for outdoor fill-in
> flash. Is there a particular flash exposure compensation you like to
I sett
Subject: Re: EOS TTL, A-TTL, and E-TTL
> "Tom DelRosario" wrote:
> ... As far as I know, with an Elan 7 and an external flash,
> you can't use either A-TTL or TTL, only E-TTL ...
Hi Tom and Michael,
My Canon 430EZ Speedlite functions in A-TTL mode on my Elan 7E.
At l
From: Michael Fontana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: EOS TTL, A-TTL, and E-TTL
What do I need to do when using a flash with my Elan 7? Is the FEL button
necessary for E-TTL? What is the difference between TTL, A-TTL, and E-TTL,
and how do I use each one? I mostly want consistent, multi segment
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 17:11:05 -0500
From: Michael Fontana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: EOS Elan 7 Custom Functions
I'd like to know what custom function settings do you find most useful on
your Elan 7, in particular 8, 11, 12, which is where I'm having
difficulty. Thanks.
Michael
I'd do a search on eBay of here bidding activity and see if it squares
with her story.
If not I'd confront her, and if still nothing, she'd get a big red negative
feedback.
Else I might just give her a Neutral.
Be carefull, you dont want to get negative feedback.
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I don't have any problem with this. We want the machines at these places to
do most of the work, right? We are looking for low cost printing at
Walgreens, not hands-on work. If we want to pay for special handling, we go
to a photo shop.
I've never seen a mistake made at a Walgreen's, or anywhe
Well, I've only ever used Elan7e, so no other SLR can I compare it to.
When I refer to the low light auto-focusing as poor, I mean that when I try
to use AF in lighting condition of 1/30 f/4.5 @ISO800 for indoor shots at
night (reading given by matrix metering), it hunts a lot and sometimes give
u
Awww, that's not fair! ;-)
Bought one 420EX after bad experiences with the AF. :-)
Even after using the 420EX, focusing is not 100% spot on, as I can't always
see the AF confirmation light in the viewfinder (wearing glasses; for shots
of the fleeting moment of children's expression).
So, Canon has
Comparing the focus speed of the 28-105 USM and the 50mm 1.8 isn't really an apples to
apples kind of comparison. A fixed focal length lens will generally focus faster than
a zoom, the shorter the focal length, the faster it will probably focus. Compare the
focus speed of the 28-105 to that o
I have been a cheapskate with my lenses, owning only a 50/1.8; 35-80/4-5.6 (came with
my previous body); and a 75-300. After doing some comparisons between the 50 and
35-80, I decided that I needed a new lens. Being a cheapskate, I got the
28-105/3.5-4.5 II. (Still spent less on lenses than
I recently picked up a 420EX and I am testing it to see if I should keep it. It seems
that one of the reasons people give for having an external flash is bounce capability.
I have a few questions about that.
* The ceilings in my house are rather high: up to 16 feet in the front room. Since
There is an article where the author did some tests and found that 2-element diopter
lenses produce better quality images than do extension tubes.
http://people.smu.edu/rmonagha/mf/diopter.html
There is a rebuttal to the test on the same page, so opinions may still vary.
Personally, I plan t
I thought that L series meant a lens was built better and more expensive. In looking
at a catalog, it appears that all the TS-E models are the same price, yet only one of
them is L. It also appears that the 100-300/4.5-5.6 is roughly the same price as the
100-300/5.6, but only one of the is L
Philip Greenspun now has an EOS-1D preview on-line. Nothing we haven't seen before
except for his various opinions (because the pixel is larger than Nikon's pixel, the
picture quality may be higher; 8 fps is useless for most photographers and may be just
marketing tactic).
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There is a new review of the Nikon D1x on Photo.net
(http://www.photo.net/photo/digital/nikon-d1x)
it was a generally positive review.
What is the EOS content of this post? In the review, he discusses the EOS 1D and
implies that, being released 6 months after the D1x, it should offer more tha
> >From www.dpreview.com, I notice that the new camera has the same 21
segment metering as the 1v. Does this mean that the 21 segment meter is
more effective than the Elan 7's 35-segment meter?
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Surely no..
If you see other Eos cameras, other brand cameras the segment number is just
a project
>From www.dpreview.com, I notice that the new camera has the same 21 segment metering
>as the 1v. Does this mean that the 21 segment meter is more effective than the Elan
>7's 35-segment meter?
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Like the poster who is asking about a single carry-around lens to replace my 35-80. I
am thinking of doing the same, though I don't think I need to go up to 200 mm
coverage. I compared the 35-80 with my 50/1.8 and realized how much sharper the
50/1.8 is. But I also like the convenience of a
This is extremely tedious and difficult in the field . . . usually impossible for
fidgety subjects. IS results in more "keepers" even with lenses that are never meant
to be hand held.
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Terry Danks
Nova Scotia, Canada
Wildlife & Nature Photography
http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/danksta/home.htm
http://www.moose395.net/tips/2000.html
Moose Peterson is a famous Nikon photographer. I stumbled onto his site and was
reading his tips. In one of the tips on the above page, Moose really pans IS, stating
that it is not necessary if you use correct technique (I believe it was writtern
befor
You can search Light Impressions web site or order their catalog from
http://www.lightimpressionsdirect.com They have a lot of different products for
organizing slides, negatives, and prints.
You may also want to read http://www.photo.net/photo/storage for an article discussing
storing slid
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 07:42:34 -0600
From: "GerryPalo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: EOS Elan IIe vs. 7e - a/f and red-eye, is it worse than I thought?
This is my question. I assume it is both, because when I tried the camera
in the store, to the best of my recollection the light flickered e
there has been discussion on the Elan 7 list about this flash being fully ETTL
compatible with virtually the same features as the 550EX for the price of a 420EX.
Just in case you're interested:
http://www.robgalbraith.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=8&t=001112
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I just want to reiterate what I found through another weekend of testing the camera.
The AF assist is just that, an assist. It is not absolutely necessary, as the camera
will focus down to EV 1 without the assist, although the assist does help with the
speed of the focus. (MF is always an op
I find it weird that there was a post here that lauded the EOS 5 for 1EV extra
sensitivity over then Elan 7, but then stated they wouldn't take low-light photos.
I was trying out my Elan 7 last night. I loaded my 50/1.8 II, set the ISO to 100 and
used Av mode at f/2.0. At that aperture and IS
Why should I care about inanimate objects being annoyed by a flashing white
a/f assist light? It is when I am photographing people, or at least scenes
with people in them, that it becomes a problem. It is when you point your
camera at them and it starts to flicker or flash that they become annoye
There is a lot of macro topics being thrown about recently so I thought you macro
experts could help. I know that there are special macro lenses which enable high
magnification, But they are expensive. With exisiting lenses, one could either add
extension tubes (Canon makes a 12 mm and a 25
From: Plumviewer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: EOS Test Message
Bob Turner wrote:
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> Test message to see if I receive a one message digest.
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I hate to suggest this :-), but have you been smoking something? I
mean, even if you post no message of your own, why wouldn't you get a
full diges
I will be renting a 550EX this weekend and I am not sure if it will come with a
manual. Are there any recommended sites to visit to get more information about the
flash unit?
I have an Elan 7E and I have recently been very disappointed in the on-camera flash.
I tried taking a picture of my d
I'm not sure if it was intended by Canon, but one effect of making their big glass
white is that, when you see a bunch of photographers with black lenses, you can be
pretty sure that they are shooting Nikon (there may be a chance they are shooting
Minolta, Pentax, or Canon FD, but most likely t
I think it would be hard to advertise on TV for an SLR, since it is a relatively
specialized market (most people go P&S or digital). The only TV ads I've seen for
SLRs are for the Canon Rebel (Andre Agassi).
Even the ads in the print magazines are very uninformative. Look at the ads for a
Ni
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From: Robert Meier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: EOS Re: The new digital move
Finally, I don't think I would shoot much more with a
digital camera.
Anyway, there is no question that sooner of later I
will change to digital. But for me the time is n
Here is a link to a lens testing methodology
http://www.takinami.com/yoshihiko/photo/lens_test/pdml-procedure_c.html
It's from a Pentax newsgroup, but it should work with Canon equipment ;-).
It may be a little difficult to test with a body without 100% viewfinder because,
following the directi
There have been several posts here about how the various cameras display the aperture
and shutter speed values. I have read elsewhere (sorry, never saved the link) that
EOS cameras internally measure in 1/8 stop increments. Thus, despite what the display
indicates in Av and Tv mode, the camer
Here is a link to another Elan 7 review. Haven't read it yet, but thought some of you
may be interested.
http://alaike.lcc.hawaii.edu/frary/elan7e.htm
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Here is another web site with lens tests. This site summarizes the results of a
French magazine and a Japanese magazine.
http://www.techphoto.org/photo/equipment/canon/lens-spec.epl
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I was looking at my copy of the brochure and I noticed something funny. The brochure
contains blurbs about the lenses and usually points out distinct features of various
lenses. I guess they ran out of things to say about the 75-300/4-5.6 III USM (which I
own):
"The front part of the zoom ri
From: Bob Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: EOS [OFF TOPIC] the record industy (enough's enough)
Look, all the associated non-manufacturing costs of
creating a music recording are exactly the same for
vinyl or CD. When CDs were introduced the sold for
about twice what a vinyl record cost. No w
Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 11:10:31 -0700
From: "Kim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: EOS Elan 7E film advance mode lever
> One thing I just noticed about my Elan 7E. The film advance mode lever
(which switches from single frame to continuous to self-timer) has indents
for each setting. When I go
OK, there have been several posts about DO lenses. What are DO lenses?
Tom D.
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One thing I just noticed about my Elan 7E. The film advance mode lever (which
switches from single frame to continuous to self-timer) has indents for each setting.
When I go from single to continuous to self-timer, it rests on each indent. But when
I go the other way, from self-timer to cont
Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 14:26:25 -0400
From: Henry Posner/B&H Photo-Video <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: EOS Re: D30 negatives and digital in general
At 12:46 PM 05/18/2001, you wrote:
>You can simply copy cd-roms every 15 years,
Sure. Just like you can copy a Bernouli (sp?) Drive you made 15 years
The sick thing in all of this is that there is no difference
between a feature and technology. The line is smeared all the
time, such that if anyone wants to contend that features can't be
patented, then he/she need only go as far as patent history to
see that stupidity prevails in the face of a s
I posted my first impressions of the camera last Thursday and I thought I would post
some additional impressions of the camera after a weekend of shooting graduation
cermonies. (I just posted some flash comments above)
* It will take a while to get used to 7 focus points. My Rebel had 1 focus
Julian Loke posted a long and informative post about how the flash works in EOS
cameras on May 13. I was wondering how much of that is applicable to the on-camera
flash?
>From what I can gather from the instruction manual, the on-camera flash is not E-TTL.
> Is the exposure still linked to th
From: Bob Sull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Canon EOS-3DV
I won't say that there is something that will need film. What I will
ask is, wasn't it here that someone once said "I can't find anybody that
can get the data off of a 5.25' diskette and I just finished printing a
60 year old negative
I just received my Elan 7E today (from B&H, great service, as I expected from their
reputation). I have some initial impressions:
* The camera seems a lot better built than my old (1997) Rebel XS.
* ECF calibrated very easily and seems to work OK (while I have not had any serious
picture takin
I ordered an Elan 7E (to replace my Rebel XS) and I should get it tomorrow. I was
wondering when one would use center-weighted metering instead of evaluative? The
manual (which I pre-ordered) is of no help, with just one sentence describing
center-weighted metering.
Tom D
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From: Michael Quack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: EOS ETTL and Metering mode.
> Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 09:07:33 +0100
> From: James McCauley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: EOS ETTL and Metering mode.
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> couldn't the flash calculation simply be
> linked to the lens' focus distance so th
I realize that they are only $20 each and I could probably just get both the RC-1 and
the RS-60E3, but could anyone tell me of real world experience with either model? I
realize that the wireless remote can't be used behind the camera; are there any other
limitations to either one?
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Maybe it's time to finish that table in EOSDOC cross referencing
ALL EOS camera bodies (film, digital):
http://eosdoc.com/manuals.asp?q=bodies
I got the table to render at width 640 without scrolling. Now to
clean up the formatting...
Do you agree with the segmentation into Top/High/Mid/Basic/
From: "Gregory Georges" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: EOS Lens on Camcorder
> I have read before that the lenses on digital cameras, for
> example, still exhibit the large depth of field that is typical
> in wide angle lenses.
>
What technical reason is there behind the claim that digital cam
From: Jim Pendergraft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: EOS lens on camcorder
Mark wrote:
> I believe it produces focal lengths that are 7X longer than if used with
> 35mm gear (I.E. A 100mm lens would become a 700mm lens !!!, Or a 400mm lens
> would become a 2800mm lens !! :-) )
I'll co
Reading the posts (out-of-order due to the server problems) regarding the black &
white films has been very interesting. I now know a lot more about C-41 B&W films.
To those of you experienced in this, when or why would you use C-41 instead of "true"
black & white?
I realize that C-41 is h
I was curious about how well macro lenses work in traditional shooting. Specifically,
I was thinking of portrait lenses. The choices include the 100/2 and the 100/2.8
Macro. I was thinking that a macro may be more flexible because of the closer
focusing ability and, of course, the macro capa
From: Ken Durling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 100% viewfinder (was: EOS 1V )
Fascinating thread. What is it on the Elan 7? I seem to recall 95%?
_
According to the March 2001 issue of Popular Photography, the coverage is 82%, with
0.75x magnification.
According to the Ca
Sorry for the off-topic question. But, even though I am reading a lot of photography
books, I have never seen an answer to this question: if the frame size is 24mm x 36
mm, then why is it called 35 mm film? (I could also ask, why is it called 6x6, when
it is actually 5.6 x 5.6?)
Tom D
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From: "Chris T. Daida" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Julian Loke wrote:
> As I wrote, I will tolerate the flickering AF assist beam because it
> works when any of the seven AF points are selected. The beam on the
> 430EZ only switches on for the central sensor, and the 550EX only
> switches on for the fiv
I am considering digital and the new Canon Pro90 with the 37-370 (35mm equivalent) IS
lens seems intriguing to me. Anyone have experience with this? I am considering this
in lieu of a new Elan 7 body. There is a huge difference in price (<$500 for the Elan
7 versus $1100 for the Pro90 plus $
Hi Ken,
Greenspun seems to be expressing a preformed opinion about EOS
cameras in general and wrote more about selected EOS system
features than about the Elan 7 specifics.
This bias becomes clear when he write about eye control in a
review of a camera without ECF. And about date imprinting in a
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 19:54:43 -0700
From: "Kim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Go to http://www.lumiquest.com/ and check out all the products to see which
>best fits your needs. The Softbox II is for bare bulbs, so I don't think you
>want that one. Personally, I think the Mini Softbox looks good...I may
One difference that hasn't been pointed out between the EOS-1v and the EOS-3 is the
ability of the EOS-1v to store exposure data, if attached to a computer. Using this,
if someone asks you information about a particular photo, you can say, with certainty,
"it was taken at 1/90 at f/8".
Admitt
I am planning to buy an Elan 7E and will probably be doing so through B&H before the
end of the month. One thing I noticed at B&H's website is an extended 4 year warranty
for, I think, about $60. Considering that my Rebel XS died at about 3.75 years of
age, I am tempted.
What is the traditio
>I have but one question, are you really going to shoot a once in a
>lifetime event with equipment you haven't used before?
>This subject was discussed earlier this year and should be in the
>archives.
It's just a lens, and a non-IS one at that, that he wants to rent. I was planning to
do
I don't own either lens, but I do know how to surf the web:
At the techphoto site (http://www.techphoto.org/photo/equipment/canon/lens-spec.epl)
the 1.2 gets lower ratings than the 1.8 from both the Japanese source and the French
source.
However, at photodo (http://www.photodo.com/nav/prodinde
Sorry this doesn't answer your question, but I am debtating whether to get Rebel 2000
or Elan 7 (my current body died). What is it about the Rebel 2000 that you outgrew?
Was it just the faster fps, the metering, and the mirror lockup or is it something
else in addition?
I assume that the
I called the 1-800-OK-CANON number and was directed to the right place to get a
manual. However, it has been nearly two weeks since I ordered the manual for the Elan
7E. I am thinking about getting one and wanted to read the manual to get a feel for
the available features.
The thing that g
I'm new to this list, so I thought I'd give some info. I am a relative newbie in
Phoenix, AZ. I have had cameras for about 4 years, but I never really got past the
snap shooting stage. Now that I am interested in getting more serious, disaster.
In 1997, I had a Canon P&S stolen from my car,
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