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Has anyone tried the updated version on datacolor software that has a: "Deeper Calibration technology adds a new, powerful calibration engine to the Spyder you already own, measuring far more points across the grayscale and correcting color cast at each one, for an average of 30% better accuracy, with even greater gains depending on your display type." Interestingly it wants you to: Download and open our Spyder License Finder Tool to get your registered license code and unlock offer. You...

Every now and then I get bored and go exploring in my R50 camera menus. I go poke around in all the nooks and crannies where I don’t usually go, like the creative filters mode, the scenes mode, and a few others. I normally live in the lands of P, Tv, Av, and M, so it’s fun to visit other neighborhoods every so often. Remember that the R50 is a beginners camera slanted towards folks that want a little more than a camera phone, but don’t want to give up the cool little things a phone can do...

Rant: The Motel states they have free Wi-Fi, which they do, but what they don't say is if there is any signal strength beyond 10 feet on the lobby. Being recently retired, for the past ten years, I find myself very frequently traveling and staying staying at vacation rentals or motels. More often than not the W-Fi signal strength reminds me of connecting to the Internet with a x386 and external 300 baud external modem. The out-of-town stays are generally a week or longer and once a month...

Men do lots of enjoyable things in horizontal positions ;) I was a bit rusty

Damp and cold my old bones will survive I guess. First outing as accredited pro rodeo photographer dont mean much better access mostly can go behind the scenes. Not much travel either 35kms Wish me luck Oh PS if it does happen to be sunny at the start 4pm might try a CPL on the 70-200 2.8 matched to trusty R5 once dark the switch to R6ii with CPL removed of course.

This morning I headed to the marina for some boat and fog photos. Canon 28mm Canon 50mm Minolta 50mm Minolta 135mm Canon RF 100mm Canon RF100-500mm Backup batteries Tripod .. Where's Waldo? My camera has a new name. At least I remembered my phone.

Great photos in this months "After Dark". Now that the votes have been tallied I want to share a Behind the Scenes photo of my entry Kalama Eagle. Photo used with permission.

As to lowlight performance of the R7. If you don't use an R7. how do you know how good the low light performance is. I just posted a picture of a owl that was taken in very low light with the RF 100-500. Very minimal noise reduction was used.Before the R7, I used an 5DIV. One of the worst cameras for noise I have used. The R7 is an exhalant all around camera, not just for birds. Canon kit lens for APSC are junk. Sigma has exhalent fast lenses that make the R7 truly shine. I use the R5-R7...

Thought I'd post this as a tie in with his Extender video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZtADzBAdq0

I've watched a few of his videos and I like his explanations. When I got my R6III I took the 1.4 off the 100-500 and often pushed cropping a bit too much. I put it back on a few months ago. I just came across this video today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mP2KuHSXbs

I don't use this very often. I only have the Multi-controller enabled in M mode. I'm in modes C1-3 90% of the time for wildlife. I also don't have the LCD enabled to move AF points around in any mode. I found this video a few weeks ago and lost it. Found it again. Example is at 12:40 where he presses in the Multi-controller and the AF point turns into a double lined white broken square. He then uses the controller to move that AF point left or right. My guess is this applies to all R...

The new to me used EL1 speedlite works a treat, easy to use understand. Im doing a rodeo queen rodeo princess which I got asked to do Mostly midday onwards sigh. R5 actually thinking 24/70 2.8 or 70/200 2.8 but think will have 70/200 on r6ii get them parading then when they pull up for the portrait use r5 with flash and 24/70 Thinking R5 with flash 2.8 1/4 power high speed sync say 1/1200 or 1/1600 work it out after first shot. Plan is to expose image as normal and just slight fill...

If Canon released A true successor to the 7DII ? A R5 with a BSI APSC sensor. Excels at sports and Bird photography and video. Priced around the R6 series. Would you buy it? Another birding season approaching and still no R7II. I live in State of Washington and Fall-Winter birding are very popular. You Need at least a 800MM lens in most places. With very little light. The reward can be spectacular.

I came across an interesting video. I have so many things to deal with I've been using Evaluative for as long as I can remember. EC is mapped to the big dial on the back. These days with exposure simulation and a histogram in the upper right hand corner makes things easier. With a blue sky I add one stop using EC automatically and tweak. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0ENCYexx1E

Have you ever noticed that in most articles about cameras that the accompanying picture of the camera shows it with the lens off of it, and no body cap on it such that the sensor is exposed to the open air? In videos they wave it around like that as if it’s a stage prop. I am under the impression that the last thing you want is to leave the sensor exposed to the open air in order to prevent dust or contamination from getting on the sensor. Am I being too paranoid? I have a little routine...

Last week, I upgraded my Canon Professional Services membership from 'Gold' to 'Platinum'. When I joined last year as a Gold member, I received a nice Canon camera strap. Today, FedEx delivered my Platinum gift. A Tenba AXIS V2 Sling Bag and another Canon camera strap! Yea for me! Very nice quality, it is a bit larger than my Think Tank Photo Retrospective 5 V2.0 Shoulder Bag: ... Sorry very sorry (Ummm, no, not really), you'll just have to suffer with these 'pedestrian' pics from...

Bought QimageOne a while back thus far like it. A step ubove Epson print layout software bought lifetime licence

I updated my Mac Mini M4 and MB Air M3. Everything is working. LrC, PS, DPP, ON1 NoNoise 2024.5 and and Topaz Sharpen A (which has not had and update since 2022) are all doing well. I don't print using LrC but the 4 year old basic HP is working. I'm a little too adventures so I don't really recommend others to move anywhere that fast unless you are sure. I don't have any older legacy apps. I could live without Topaz as I can't remember the last time I used it. 3rd year in a row now. I...

After almost 20 years of shooting RAW I have been contemplating using CRAW. After watching this video I'm going to try CRAW for my C1-3 modes which are for sports and birding. M mode I will leave at RAW for landscapes, indoor low lighting, etc. I was curios about which format the members here use? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGSvE1gvnGE

I'm considering buying the R5 II because unlike the R6 III the R5 II supports flash use during focus bracketing. My question: Can I use any brand flash that is compatible with Canon for R5 II while focus bracketing? Or must it be a Canon brand flash? My setup would be to use 2 Godox V350 flash units, fired wirelessly, with the wireless controller attached to the camera hot shoe.