Not great images with new 6D. Please take a look and give me your thoughts
I'm going on a 2 week trip to Japan in 3 days so I'm hoping to figure this out before I leave.
I got my new 6d with 24-105 L lens kit, and also the 70-300mm f/4-5.6 IS USM. It doesn't seem like any of the photos are that sharp without a very high contrast shot in full sunlight. Indoor shots or those with lower contrast (tree bark, leaves, something in the shade, etc.) seem pretty unsharp to me. I'm not sure if the AF just can't get a precise focus, or if the sensor just can't get good detail unless those conditions are met.
This is my first DSLR, although I've had film SLRs for 30+ years before that, and digital point and shoots for the last decade or so. I'm not sure if my expectations were too high or if there's something wrong with the camera, lenses, AF, or IS systems, or if I'm doing something wrong.
Some photos are below. I shot them all above the 1/focal length rule and some 2x or 3x or more above that, so in theory that would eliminate the camera shake issue, and also in theory the IS system should give you 2-3 stops so it doesn't seem to me that camera shake should be the issue. (I've also taken tripod shots and had the same issue so I don't think it's camera shake.)
All are large fine jpegs (20mb) straight from the camera, blown up to 100%.
santa1 Indoors daylight, no interior lights on, 24mm focal length, 1/30, ISO 1000
santa2 Indoors daylight, with interior lights on, 105mm focal length, 1/125, ISO 6400
santa3 Indoors daylight, with interior lights on, 300mm focal length, 1/320, ISO 10000
santa4 Indoors daylight, with interior lights on, 300mm focal length, 1/640, ISO 20000
wall1 outdoors, 105mm focal length, 1/500, ISO 100
wall2 outdoors, 270mm focal length, 1/500, ISO 100
treebark1 outdoors, 70mm focal length, 1/125, ISO 25600
treebark2 outdoors, 300mm focal length, 1/320, ISO 25600
license1 outdoors, 300mm focal length, 1/320, ISO 25600
leaves1 outdoors, 70mm focal length, 1/320, ISO 25600
leaves2 outdoors, 300mm focal length, 1/320, ISO 500
truck, 105mm focal length, 1/250, ISO 100
Other than the truck badge and maybe the wall photos (high contrast, full sunlight), most of them don't seem that sharp to me. What do you guys think? Most people are raving about how good the low light performance is on the 6d but I'm just not seeing it, not even in moderate light.
Here's a link to where someone compares a few different cameras one of them being the 6d. My images are not as sharp as them as far as I can tell.
http://www.etherpilot.com/photo/test/misc/6d_5d3_d600_colfix.jpg
Any thoughts or suggestions you can give are greatly appreciated! Thanks!
Google videos are your friend. Google Videos is/are better than youtube because they include all of youtube plus everything else.
You would be amazed how many user-created demos/tutorials/tips videos are out there. Even more amazing is how specific these videos are. Specific to your model number of camera, of flash, of lens. Specific to your particular tiny issue about Lightroom or Photoshop or whatever.
As for good learning/informational DSLR websites, here is a list of my personal favorites:
http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/
http://www.the-digital-picture.com/Reviews/
http://www.canonrumors.com/
http://www.lensrentals.com/rent/canon/lenses/telephoto/sigma-50-500mm-f4.5-6.3-hsm-os-for-canon
The Digital Picture has great reviews, plus a unique lens comparison tool (ACTUAL IMAGES!) in their "TOOLS" tab.
Lens Rentals contains Roger C's very well-informed, well-respected, and VERY witty commentary on lenses.
Cambrige in Colour gives a nice, refreshing and very civilized British sensibility to things, and is welcoming to beginners, and has good short writings on basic digital photography concepts.
Canon Rumors tells you (sometimes) when new equipment is coming out, and has a lively forum that is less flame-y than Nikon Rumors.
Scott
Canon 6D, Canon T3i, EF 70-200mm L f/2.8 IS mk2; EF 24-105 f/4 L; EF-S 17-55mm f/2.8 IS; EF 85mm f/1.8; Sigma 35mm f/1.4 "Art"; EF 1.4x extender mk. 3; 3x Phottix Mitros+ speedlites
Why do so many people say "fer-tographer"? Do they take "fertographs"?
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Its working just fine but does it look good? Take a look and give me your advice!
I got to say that this is my first finnished labview program, and it's working fine, almost no problems. But i'm not that shure about
this huge while loop with all its instructions. Normaly a while loop takes 1 ms to iterate once, but this loop takes more than one ms,
I'm using another subVI to catch data up to 5 ms. / sample as output from measurement device to the while loop in this Sub vi, and then from this sub VI i'm initializing the data value read from the Measurement device, to a global variable that i read in this huge while loop. I belive that the subVI while loop iterates several times before the huge loop iterates once. Meaby thats why my graphs for the data are plotting more than one data at a time.
Take a look and give your advice, it seems that all the measurements are well. And I don't really got problems with the program when running, exept from small delays when I switch the sample rates.
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WhileLoop.JPG 354 KBI agree with Titou.
Wow! That's an eye-full.
There are some functions like setting audio On / Off that may not need to be in there. Or do they? You'd have to describe what the loop is supposed to do. Same comment for the indicator display settings on property nodes. Do you intend to turn them on/off a number of times during an iteration of the loop?
You should "divide & conquer". By that I mean, use sub-vi's that are function specific. As mentionned by Titou, you should have a look at the development guidelines. Basically, now that you have a working loop, you can improve it by creating some sub-vi's, revisit some items that may not need to be in the loop. As a matter of fact, you could create some control & indicators and maybe transform the loop into a sub-vi as well.
There are many Case Statements that you could convert to sub-vi's and that way, you could eliminate the global variables by using indicators and wiring directly to them.
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I dont know whether this can be work or not, but I feel its to complex. I then think whether I can directly access the c++ file on the image server if I just know the image server's dll or function. I even dont know whether the image server have COM or support corba...
Can expertists give me some suggestions or reference!?
Thx a lots!!So many topics.
Someone has suggested 'swig' in the past. (That is not the same as swing). It produces a interface layer (java) from another layer (like C++.) The url is http://www.swig.org/.
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Unknown problem, please take a look and help
Hi everyone
I am working at school which has appox. 250 eMacs, 4 servers with UPS Backup. I have many times with the same problem and don`t know how to solve it. The problem is
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The users were very angry, when it happened
I checked logs of the servers very carefully, it did not show any wrong and error. But I know that some workers use kettle and vacuum cleaner at work. I really don`t know, it could be voltage wrong or what
Hopefully someone can help me.
Thanks
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Message was edited by: ng TriSorry, I could not understand what "bad network gear" is. Could you please give more explanation?
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Please! take a quick look and give me your opinion
I want to read signals from two tasks in order to make it possible to calibrate all sensors (tasks) indiviually. My program will always read to sensors in different combinations.
This is my way to read 2 tasks "simultaneously"...
Do you think it is a good idea or ... just bad..
It does work, I think...
Message Edited by Johan.svensson on 09-13-2006 06:15 AM
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Input_double_daqmx.jpg 91 KBTanks,
Very helpful example.
However...
When I started to build my program I used the "multiple channels" DAQmx read block, And configured a voltage task that I used for all my sensors. To scale the measured signal into correct value (in for example Newton to show on the screen) a number of calculations were applied, depending on selected sensor.
This means that I have to do the calibration of the sensors outside of Labview. Until I found the possibility to calibrate each task (individually) in MAX... This is much easier because I don't have to bother about all the calibration values and compensations that I used before. This is the reason why I want to give each sensor its own task. And when each sensor is given its own task, and I always need to measure two sensors (two channels), this problem arise.
I can se 2 possible solutions... maybe.
1. Create a scale in MAX for each sensor instead, then I should be able to use the example in the link above -- think this would work, but I need to find the slope and offset value on my own as before.
2. If there is a way to read from global viritual channels instead of tasks, and if it is possible to connect 2 viritual channels independent to he task during operation -- Probably not.
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Hi all,
Please have a below procedure.
Suggest me if I do anything to make it more efficient?
Because I'm very very new to pl/sql .
I have to send this to code review.Before just to make sure everything is good and all logic and everything.
Thanks in advance.
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AS
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LOOP
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END proc1;Hi,
I meant something like this:
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WITH all_dates AS
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+ LEVEL - 1 AS dt
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- in_start_date_time
SELECT dt
FROM all_dates
WHERE dt NOT IN (
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FROM report_parameters
WHERE report_parameters.report_parameter_id = in_report_parameter_id
AND report_parameters.report_parameter_group = edr_rpt_constants_pkg.date_format_mask_group
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;If you post CREATE TABLE and INSERT (or CREATE TABLE AS) statements, then I' can test it.
As Tim said, TRUNCATE TABLE is not a PL/SQL command, so to use it in PL/SQL you have to use EXECUTE IMMEDIATE, like this:
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Workaround for some W510 Audio Problems. Lenovo, please take a look at this!
Hi all
I believe most or all of the people are affected with poor sound quality of W510. I do believe there are some people who bring their laptops along and not convenient to get a external sound card and external speakers on the road. I am not too sure, but what I think that causes audio problem in W510, T410 or T510 is due to the implementations of Combo Audio/Mic Jack. So far, I have not heard any audio problems from X201 or W701/W701ds with a separate mic and audio jack (1 green and red, instead of 1 combo) Listed machines are using Conexant 20585 SmartAudio HD Sound Card.
The workaround is to force install Conexant 20561 SmartAudio HD Driver through Device Manager
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-73721
Problem Partially Resolved
1. Using Audio Director - Classic mode enables you to use both internal speakers and external speakers/headphone simultaneously. (By right, this should be in Multi-Stream mode, due to this driver not programmed for W510). However, the volume of the internal speaker will be reduced by half if an external speakers/headphone is plugged.
2. The sound quality is improved (tested with internal speakers).
3. Solved Irregular Volume Problems.
Drawback of using this driver
1. Using Multi-Stream mode in this case would not enables you to use both internal speakers and external speakers/headphone simultaneously. However it would just make your internal speaker to be louder. External speaker/headphone would not work if Multi-Stream mode is selected.
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3. Only Voice (VoIP) EQ is optimized for external speaker/headphone. Using Off, Jazz, Dance or Concert EQ would make you feel that the vocal (singer's voice) is diffused, blurred like excessive 3D effects.
4. Even if any preloaded EQ is selected, after system has been restarted, the selected EQ would still be saved, but the band (31Hz - 16KHz would be changed back to Off EQ) It is ok as it just affects the graphics, not the sound.
I know that Forum Administrators, Lenovo Staff, Community Moderators, Gurus and Volunteered Moderators/Users would be surfing around and looking for new post. Please take a look and leave a post or PM to me, thank you very much.
It is alright if Lenovo don't think that there is any problems regarding the sound in W510. However, I do believe most users/owners of W510 would appreciate if the sound system could be further improved through a better driver or new revision of hardware to something like a T400 standards or something. Some users would spent so much $ just to get all-in-a-box solution and would not want to invest further just for a external card to sacrifice portability and use more $. Finally, I still do believe that W510 audio problems can be resolved.
Best Regards
PeterHi ckhordiasma
Thanks for reviving ths old thread. How about trying Dolby drivers? It sounds great and could possibly resolve those issues without going through too much troubleshooting.
The link is under my signature.
Hope it helps!
Happy 2012!
Peter
W520 (4284-A99)
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Sound Enthusiast and Enhancement (Post comments, share mixes, etc.)
http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/General-Discussion/Dolby-Home-Theater-v4-for-most-Lenovo-Laptops/td-p/62... -
Please take a look here: a lot of picture's from the Mac Pro and Upgrades.
Just like any other Mac Pro owner, i'am really happy with it!
Please take a look at my site: http://mac.powerbras.nl
This is the first site i have ever made (on a Mac) so i hope you will like it!
Before i had my Mac Pro i would really like too see a little more from the inside. But there where just a few site's with some small pictures. Now i made this site with some high resolution pictures so everyone can see the inside off the Mac Pro and how perfect it is!
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Please take a look, you will like it. Especially when you have no Mac Pro!Anne,
Great job on the site.
There are a number of third party templates available for iWeb that, with some creativity, can yield a site that looks nothing like the template-based norm. An example of one such site, "The Camera Obscura", a site created in iWeb and hosted on .Mac, demonstrates very well the limitless capabilities of iWeb. Some post-publishing html editing has been done on Obscura, but is easily accomplished with the right tools.
Additional iWeb templates and other tools that support this great application can be found in The iWeb Tool Chest.
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OK...now I appear to 'progressed' I changed my email address back to original on Apple id and then was able to delete icloud account. Apparently I couldnt do it as it kept requesting password when I entered passsword ( both old and new one, it wouldnt accept it as it had my old email address in ) It didnt do that on ios6 . Anyway I deleted account, but now I tried to login in with my new id/password and it says unable as already in use!!! More help needed please! Its a nightmare!!
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As far as I know, these menus have not been updated since FW 8, so
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Save yourself a lot of grief by avoiding those menus. There are many
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Read this link before you climb any higher on this slippery slope:
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Here is again the short version:
Quit GarageBand, if it is running.
Open your User Library in the Finder. It is hidden in MacOS X Lion, so use the Finder's "Go" menu:
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Then try again to run GarageBand and download the loops.
The preferences file stores all you user settings that you set using the "Preferences" panel in GarageBand, also the layout of the GarageBand window and the location of your recent projects. You will have to enter these settings again after removing the file.
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We are all fellow users here and have no way of accessing your account information; iTunes Store employees do not participate in these forums. You will need to do what it says, contact iTunes Support. Go here:
http://www.apple.com/emea/support/itunes/contact.html
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