I spent the day on the beaches and shorelines of Gloucester, Essex and
Rockport, Massachusetts today shooting a pretty model along with a small
troup of instructors and friends of instructors from the New England
School of Photography. Not sure what happened to the other models this
year. Last year there were about fifteen at this annual event.
Anyhow, the 5D and Tokina 28-80 seemed to perform flawlessly. I can't
say the same for Chuck. After a week of rain the sun was out in all its
glory today which was brutal for photography with no shade about.
Forget chimping with the 5D in the sun. Despite its nice, very large
display you can't see it in the sun. I'm sure that I'll recover a few
nice images from the day's shoot but after a quick review I can see that
I often didn't have nearly enough fill flash. I could blame it on the
5D's insufficiently bright screen except that I was carrying a perfectly
good Sekonic light meter capaable of measuring fill flash intensity
relative to ambient light. I just didn't use it enough.
Anyhow, I am convinced that the camera and lens are fine. Hope to do
some comparative resolution testing tomorrow.
Chuck Norcutt
Geilfuss Charles wrote:
> Chuck,
> I'm not sure it will make you feel any better, but perhaps this
> story will put your experience in perspective.
> This story may be apocryphal but I was told a story of a fellow
> who made a trip to a U*S distribution center that takes in tens of
> thousands of packages a day and mechanically redistributes them all over
> the globe. He describes a series of tiered moving conveyors, each of
> which directs packages to a different sorting area. All the boxes come
> in at the top, their UPC's scanned, then a servo kicks the box to a
> different level depending on it ultimate destination. He describes some
> of the boxes as making as much as a ten foot fall! It's a wonder
> anything short of a brick makes it intact.
> So it would seen that the little tumble in you yard's verdant
> but soggy pasture was but a roll in the hay as a welcome home.
>
> Charlie
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Chuck Norcutt
> Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 8:31 PM
> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [OM] Re: 5D heart attack, was: Re: Hi-res shootout
>
> The 5D and Tokina 28-80 f/2.8 arrived this afternoon and I almost
> re-routed it back to B&H. I saw the truck arrive and went to meet the
> guy at the door. He took no more than three steps past the truck (just
> enough to bypass the sidewalk) when the box he was balancing at shoulder
>
> height took a tumble to the ground. I think he may have been in
> training since there was another guy observing who seemed none too
> happy. Especially when I told them he had just dropped a $3,000 camera
> on the ground.
>
> Fortunately, it landed almost perfectly flat on its largest side (air
> cushion) into grass that hasn't been mowed for two weeks (beginning to
> look like a wheat field) growing on ground that has been saturated by
> about 15" of rain which has fallen over the past week. The basement is
> still dry but that's about the only thing that is.
>
> I probably should have refused the shipment. Instead I forced the guy
> to wait awhile while I inspected the outside of the box (no visible
> impact anywhere along the wet top) and then opened it to see that the
> contents had been well packed by B&H and nothing seemed askew. The lens
>
> and camera were also well packed in their own boxes and I decided the
> risk of damage was slight. Besides, I'm sure that I just didn't see the
>
> first five times the box was tossed 5 feet into various trucks and
> conveyors along the way.
>
> I have charged the battery and done some test shots and all is initially
>
> well. Not sure how well this lens performs yet as I haven't done any
> rigorous testing or comparison testing with some of the Zuikos and
> Kirons. I'm pleased with the autofocus peformance of the Tokina. I'd
> read some comments that the lens was noisy. I can't agree. It's a
> little noisier than a Canon ultrasonic motor lens but still is pretty
> quiet and pretty quick. A little whooshing sound and sometimes a tiny
> click but it gets the job done in a hurry. The manual focus control
> ring is a real winner.
>
> Pretty soon I'll have to take it off "P" for "Professional" and try some
>
> of the other modes. Maybe when the rain stops tomorrow. :-)
>
> ps: Lens removal of a Canon lens by a left-handed person is a real
> juggling act. The OM's on OM or Canon are a breeze.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
> Jeff Keller wrote:
>
>
>>Chuck you need to re-route that 5D, you don't really neeed it ;-)
>
>
>
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