Tomorrow, Tomorrow, I love you, Tomorrow. It is only a day away.
I am singing....woo hoo. Just ordered my 7D and my 300mm lens and the EF1.4III extender and spare battery and I get them tomorrow.
Fabulous as I got them from WEX and got a bundles deal which they have been awaiting stock on for the last fortnight and the stock came in today.
I have one question about my order. I know some people use a lens filter to protect their lens and some hate them. I want one just to protect the lens until I get used to it. It was really hard choosing one and I ended up getting this one as WEX had it on offer with the 300mm lens.
http://www.wexphotographic.com/buy-kenko-67mm-pro1-digital-uv-filter/p1527988
If you guys think there is a better one that you recommend I shall order the new one. I have not got a clue on lens filters.
I am so jet lagged as we arrived home yesterday at 3pm after a 5 hour delay and 2 flights. It was such a fantastic holiday and as most of you know I did manage to get some quite nice shots of the local hummingbirds. I have to admit that I was pretty cheesed off with the Fuji as it kept overheating, would not focus, and it took an eternity to store pictures so I missed a massive amount of action with the hummers. Also my lens distortion was horrendous and every photo I had to edit to compensate this. I do wish that I had the new Canon gear with me as I know my photos would have been so much better but saying that the humidity was horrendous and it was so hot that I could only stand out for about half an hour before the heat got to me. Although Barbados is a very safe island I know I would have been too nervous with fabulous gear to stand in the isolated spot where I took most of my photos.
Hi Lolly, welcome home. How exciting for you to get all that kit.
Dont' you need a 77mm filter for your lens or have I made a mistake? I can't comment on the quality of the Kenko filter. I bought a clear filter for my 100-440 lens as below.
www.wexphotographic.com/.../p1011125
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Welcome home Lolly :-)
The excitement starts tomorrow obviously - hope you manage to sleep tonight!
Teejay is right though, I can categorically state that the Canon 300mm f/4 takes a 77mm filter. I have said lens in my hand and have attached a 77mm filter to it to check :-)
I hasten to add that the filter I used was a CPL - you know my opinion of filters for protection :-)
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I can see why you're so excited. Look forward to seeing the results
I've learned that I still have a lot to learn...
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Welcome back to the madhouse L - looking forward to your first efforts with new gear (would be beyond me at my age I'm afraid - point & shoot forever is my motto) - have enjoyed your holiday pics enormously . have been watching but not commenting much as have been a bit poorly!!
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An instruction book? Ooooo just you wait, it's rather thick - and no, it doesn't have 8 different languages in it! Actually, you can download a pdf version of it from the Canon website as well, so you could get a head start if you wish :-)
Body/extender/lens go together easily enough. If you can put in a lightbulb, you'll be ok with that. As Bob says, you normally attach extender to lens first, but don't panic if you end up taking lens off extender whilst it's still attached to the camera, I seem to do it rather a lot when swapping about between lenses and it doesn't seem to cause any harm!
The trick with large numbers of photos is to NOT edit them all. The software that comes with the camera includes Zoombrowser, which will allow you to slideshow through all the pics in RAW, then you can note down the numbers of those you wish to process. You can then either use Photoshop or the DPP software the camera comes with. DPP will also do a batch process if you DO want to simply convert the lot into jpg.
Don't worry, we'll be around if you need help :-)
Not sure I like the idea of tracking the parcel - I know it's only half an hour from depot to my house, so I get even more impatient when it hasn't arrived after 40 minutes :-)
You can also use Zoombrowser to rate your pics, then batch process the filtered results in DPP. I do that sometimes if I've done a shoot for someone - mark decent pics as a 5, focus misses etc as a 1, then batch process all the 5s for them before burning to CD. I'll then go back and photoshop any specials they ask for based on the initial views.
My problem to sort out later today is the 1400 pics taken at the weekend at a little local airshow. There were only half a dozen planes, but you get carried away, don't you? It was a nice afternoon, so blue skies, good light, big subjects means there's only a half dozen misses in there, so I now need to try and pic one or two of each to process. Ho hum, I should know better than to use high speed shooting!
ooh L , can feel your frustration all these miles away!! You will love zoombrowser - even I can use it & I'm old LOL! Mind you, after reading WJ's post it seems that there are further applications than I have so far discovered - he is so knowledgeable he makes my head go bang!! Hope you're listening WJ - when are you going to hold a workshop for us less fortunates??
Hahahahahahaha!!!
We won't hear anything now from Lolly as she bolts all the bits together.
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Awww no :-(