Photography and video recording

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Ed Oscuro
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Re: Photography and video recording

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Yeah, I also don't care about that miniature effect.

I bought one of those old 35mm lenses, it's the TS-35 for the old FD mount. A guy called Ed Mika made an adapter (a mount replacement actually) so it can be used on a modern EF-mount camera. I have all that stuff, but I've never tried it out.

What I have got is a 7D and a couple other tilt/shift lenses - TS-E 17mm 4/0L and the TS-E 90mm 2.8.

The 17mm is a fantastic lens and I have used it to do a few landscape shots with foreground and background in focus. It has a pretty decent angle of view for interiors and buildings - on the 1.6x crop factor cameras, where a 50mm lens works more like a short portrait lens at 80mm. (I also like that focal length for landscapes.) On full frame cameras I'd go with the 24mm lens instead.

There are a few downsides to the 17mm, aside from cost. First, the front element is a big curved bulb that protrudes forward, so you always have to be careful not to bump it against things, including the lens cap. Second, on sunny days you need to check the viewfinder carefully for stray light spots and shadow it with your hand if possible (the really wide Canon lenses have those goofy lens hoods which I don't care for; this one is so wide and short that it's mostly useless). Finally, on a crop camera you don't get the full range of motion, although you don't get some distortion from the very wide angle of view either.

The TS-E 90mm on a crop camera is pretty good for product photography, and probably works just as well on full frame. It is a bit older but it still is considered pretty sharp.

There is one notable difference between the older lenses (the 45mm, the 90mm) and the new lenses (the 17mm and the 24mm TS-E II) - the new lenses have segmented rotating bodies so you can combine the tilt and shift any way you like. With the older lenses, I believe the tilt goes left-right while the shift is up and down (for example). The entire lens still rotates, but you have to pull out a screwdriver to make the shift and tilt work in the same direction. In practice, I haven't found it to be a problem, especially for architecture, but you might as well know.

Overall my recommendation would be 17mm for ultrawide on full-frame, for wide on crop cameras, and 24mm for wide on full frame. 45mm may well work for normal perspective on a full frame camera, I guess, but I find sometimes that 17mm-crop combination isn't wide enough to take photos; you need some distance even there.
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Re: Photography and video recording

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Thanks, Ed.

The more research I do, the more I lean towards the 24 (the 17 is too wide for my purposes).

This interior w/ a Canon 24 looks nice, but the depth distortion bothers me a bit (probably fine for exteriors though); If I went with a 17, interiors may look like a Stanley Kubrick film. :wink:

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe I could eliminate some of the depth distortion w/ an extension tube. 95% of this lens usage will be exterior single-point perspective shots.

I think Stoller used a Linhof, but shots like these: example 1 , example 2 & example 3 exemplify a clean, and accurate shot I have great admiration for (particularly, the last (McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope)).
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Hi all,

I see 4k Camcorders are now entering the market as mainstream products. Unfortunately for me the UK versions of most of these camcorders record 4k at 24p and 25p only. The 30fps/60hz options are exclusive to the US/Japanese markets. I'm extremely upset about this as every frame counts in my train filming hobby due to the fast speeds on which trains move. Not only this but youtube heavily favours 60hz compliant gear because some folks still don't have multi system PC monitors that can drop to 50hz. Mine does and it looks great, but you want others to get in on the action too. Phones are 60hz only which begs the question why camcorders are specialist and don't have the options.

My youtube uploads currently consist of 50hz uploads at 50fps. But for those who don't have 50hz compliant screens the transition from 50-60 hz introduces jitter. So i'd rather go as close to 60hz as possible.

So what would do in my situation,

Would you -

1) Buy a USA version of the camera and film at 30p
2) Buy a UK version of the camera and film at 24p
3) Buy a UK version of the camera and film at 25p

As some of you know I am going to Japan in April. If you know of any outlets selling English firmwares on 60hz cameras I'd love to hear about it. I heard that they don't do English firmwares. But they do offer the PAL version of the cameras with English firmware. But again its 50hz so thats not good.

Any help appreciated. Thank you.
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Re: Photography and video recording

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Bill Gates says: "8.1 megapixels should be enough for anyone"

http://www.hyakushiki.net/photo/brevenge3.jpg

(actually, Eolake Stobblehouse said something similar to that, for real)
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