The Digital Photography Show #88: The Canon EOS1D Mark III, HDRs and more
The Digital Photography Show #88
April 6, 2008 : On today’s show, it’s just me and Michael, two old friends talking about my experiences with the to-die-for Canon EOS1D Mark III, my first attempts at HDR images, and Adobe Photoshop Express, the new and free online editing tool from Adobe.
Michael also talks about some other online editing options, including Aviary, Picnik, Fotoflexer and Splashup. solution.
If you want to see my first HDR images (they’re not very good, but they’re mine!) and my full review of the Mark III, please visit my new blog at http://scottsherman.typepad.com/photo.
We apologize for the long delay between shows - this episode was completed almost a week ago, but our site was hacked by illicit Viagra sellers.
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April 10th, 2008 at 8:17 am
Boy, I’m having a hard time getting this podcast. I can download it to my PC and it seems to play there just fine. However, on my iPod, it stops after 2 minutes and locks up the iPod. Now I can’t get the subscription in iTunes to update. I am assuming this is related to the hacks on your site. Bleep those people, that’s for sure!
April 11th, 2008 at 1:36 pm
I am having the same problem, the mp3 plays fine on computer but locks up my ipod. I have to totally restart it. I would like to get all the people that hacked your site, line them up against a wall and beat them with a pillowcase full of D size batteries. Btw, love your podcast.
April 12th, 2008 at 6:57 pm
I can also confirm the stop-after-2-minutes problem in both iTunes and on my iPod Nano, though it didn’t manage to crash either. I’d re-encode and re-upload.
April 13th, 2008 at 12:26 am
Guys, you know how much I love HDR. But this made me laugh - http://www.flickr.com/photos/airchinapilot/2312975136/
April 13th, 2008 at 12:26 am
Guys, you know how much I love HDR. But this made me laugh - http://www.flickr.com/photos/airchinapilot/2312975136/
April 20th, 2008 at 6:28 pm
Scott,
Sounds like you are loving the 1D Mark III (Marky). I’m glad to hear that. I’m currently reviewing the 1Ds Mark III myself.
Regarding shooting HDRs with Marky, try shooting 5 bracketed shots at +/- 2EV … this will give you a total dynamic range of aprox. 14EV, very similar to the human eye. My HDRs have gotten 1000% better since switching from 3 bracketed shots at +/- 1EV or 2EV to 5 shots at +/- 2EV.
The menu item for number of bracketed exposures is Custom Function 1-6, option #2.
BTW, I totally agree with your comments about the straps that come with these high end cameras … I’m hauling around the $8000.00 1Ds Mk III with the same crap strap and it scares the hell out of me.
May 1st, 2008 at 5:52 pm
Scott……… glad you are loving the MK3 - I love it too….. can’t put the damn thing down these days. I see you’re trying HDR too, and with the higher dynamic range of the MK3 and up to 7 bracketed shots, you really can’t go wrong………. keep it up mate……….