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Subject: [OM] Re: OT - Peaceful 5D arrival, was: 5D heart attack, was: Re: Hi-res shootout,
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 20:08:40 -0400
It was a good trip as I posted elsewhere.  The flash on this trip is for 
fill light on the sun filled beach.  Otherwise I'd choose to shed a 
couple pounds and up the ISO dial same as you.

Chuck

Moose wrote:

> Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> 
>>Thanks, Moose.  A most interesting result!  I haven't had a chance to do 
>>much of anything with mine yet.  
> 
> Yeah, I'm excited. To have better performance cropped to 1.6 than the 
> 1.6x camera I've been happily using is what I hoped for, but not what I 
> expected. You could sure never do that with film and get anything like 
> these results.
> 
>>However, it's going to the beach today. 
>>Hope I don't drop it in the water or the sand.  What a handful though. 
>>Fitted out with the 28-80 Tokina 2.8 and a Sunpak 522 handle mount 
>>flash the whole thing weighs 6.4 pounds.
> 
> Too heavy for me. I really very seldom use flash and generally prefer to 
> use iso vs. ozs. and grs. I already have the EF 24-85/3.5-4.5 that I 
> bought for the 300D. At only 2/3 to 4/3 stop slower, I'm not troubled, 
> what with the amazing high iso performance of the 5D. And say what you 
> will about other aspects of their lenses, the full time manually 
> adjustable USM is really nice. My other brand lenses focus fast enough 
> and are fine, but aren't as quick and quiet as USM and have to be 
> switched to MF separately for fine tuning. It's nice to here that 
> Tokina's solution to that works well in its latest incarnation.
> 
> 5D with 24-85 is 2# 14oz. (1,305g) and with the Tamron 28-300, 3# 
> (1,361g). I'm not carrying around any 6 plus pounds unless it goes to at 
> least 500 mm. :-)
> 
> With 19-35, 24-85, 50/1.8, 28-300 and all the OM glass for specialty 
> use, I'm not looking for lenses right now.
> 
> Hope it's a good trip to the beach!
> 
> Moose
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