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Collin Stebbins
{K:1868} 4/15/2007
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In terms of long exposure noise performance the 5D is apparently excellent, that is the reason I am contemplating buying it. After 45sec I get tiny white dots that are visible at 300% and after a minute there everywhere and visible at print size!!! The one area that I miss velvia, but enough to go back to film.
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Roger Skinner
{K:81846} 4/15/2007
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yeah 35mm sensor 14.5Mega pixel.. but I dunno whether it all that good I mean it porduces lovely 20X30" prints but the periphery is all shot to bits lately and I guess that is more the lens than the camera and long exposures over ten seconds... forget it all I get is noise...so dunno whether the 5D is better or not...
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Collin Stebbins
{K:1868} 4/15/2007
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If you had them in front of you you would see they are actually really simple to use. I reckon they are essential for landscape photography.
Sounds great - the 5d is an awesome camera. I have thought about selling all of my gear to buy one. Your current camera is full frame and about 14 Mp though isn't it?
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Roger Skinner
{K:81846} 4/15/2007
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sounds too complicated for me kekeke but I understand the principle alright.. must get some an try 'em out.. up for a new camera in June gonna buy it with my retitrement payout.. thinking of getting a Canon 5D and a 28-300lens t/s
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Collin Stebbins
{K:1868} 4/15/2007
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I bet he was spot on every time with that kind of pressure! The filter I mentioned is a graduated neutral density filter. It doesn't change the colour at all it only reduces the amount of light passing through the top half of the filter by 3 stops. What I do is take a reading of the foreground and then a reading of the sky and work out how many stops different they are and slide in the appropriate filter to give the same exposure top and bottom. If I didn't use the graduated filter this shot would either have a very dark foreground or a washed out sky.
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Roger Skinner
{K:81846} 4/15/2007
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yeah thats what I said.. kekeke I always remember my dad counting the time of the exposures when working in the darkroom.. he reckoned he was excellent at counting as it was a skill that he learned whilst in the RAF in England during the war.. they used to count from the moment the bomb aimer called bombs gone to the time the explosions it was a way of estimating height and also more importantly it also meant they could turn for home so yeah .. I dont use filters and so dont quite get what you are saying but nice work!!
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Collin Stebbins
{K:1868} 4/15/2007
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Hi Roger, it seems 3 stop ND grad was spot on for balancing the exposure in this shot. I think I metred about 4 sec at f4 so I was after 64sec at f16. 66sec is not bad considering I was counting in my head, HA.
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Roger Skinner
{K:81846} 4/14/2007
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excellent exposure in the foreground considering you are working with ambient light... well seen and captured.. 66 secs eh kekeke
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Collin Stebbins
{K:1868} 4/14/2007
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Thanks very much Michele.
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Collin Stebbins
{K:1868} 4/14/2007
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Thanks very much Gennaro.
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Michele Beccia
{K:16471} 4/14/2007
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Great capture:)
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Gennaro Manna
{K:21301} 4/14/2007
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Very great and so natural landscape. Very well composed...Congrats
gennaro
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