I didnt think of the comfort zone with the grip. That combined with doing a lot of portraits would make it worthwhile

 

Ohhhh I see what you're saying. Specific to Rubin. Gotcha. It's a good point...not having to think about that as things are zipping around you would be a good thing.

 

yea, when i took of the grip on my 40D to sell it, the camera just feels so alien to me.

soo not used to it.

 

:grouphug:

 

dont ya just hate when the Nikon guy says something, and ends up making sense?

 

 

 

Nah, Jup's a sharp photo-nerd...I just didn't follow the need for a grip to shoot weddings across the board.

 

lol, I know he is. Just gotta do a little brand bashing.

 

holy cow.. i think theres a new "worst job in the world"..... can you imagine?



more new oil spill pictures here:
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/201...onths_lat.html

 

I take some of those off their hands....

 

mostly Canons, looks like... wonder what happened

 

I'll just sell it off and buy some Nikkor glass.

 

god this 7D blows the 5D away... I won't have to do much processing anymore.. I mean, unless I want to.

and I havent even gone above ISO 100. lol

 

Interesting.
I don't know much about Canon's, but I'd wonder how the 5dII would stack up against the 7d...

 

well reports say the 5D2 is better from a noise and possibly IQ standpoint (also higher MP) but the 7 is better in terms of AF..

 

why, is the in camera HDR already out?

 

You can stop talking now. No, seriously, you really don't need to discuss this any further.

 

yeah I know. I talk too much.

 

Aside from the fact I own a 5D, I also came into $1k of disposable income that I wasn't expecting. Hence any temptation at the moment is not a good thing.

 

Well you can only smoke it or spend it.

 

Yeah, but the practical portion of me keeps telling myself "You've shot next to nothing in the past year. Why are you even thinking about photo gear?"

F*cking job is consuming my life. Meh. I'll shut up now.

 

well if you've shot nothing your 5 is pretty much new. I mean, compared to mine. Mine is shot to hell. I'm gonna post identical shots and you can see the difference for yourself. And, maybe you'll be able to tell whether I'm noticing this difference just because, mine is shot to hell.

 

but seriously it could be a question of the lens too, I've never shot a 200 2.8L on the 5d. I will, and see how it is.

 

well it does have some kind of dynamic lighting modes.....

 

 

meh, pretty typical for a photo journalist job.

a job i still wouldnt mind getting into, but i suck ass and don't have what it takes to be one.

 

lol foo, i was talking about the BP dude..... and don't keep dissing yourself, please....

 

holy sh*t the video is good on the 7.... can't wait to take it to the club....

 

 

btw saw they used your pic on macrumours. so SHADUP and keep shooting.

 

it's only money... ;p

 

Major money put out for older photographers work.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Record...54537.html?x=0

 

^^ DAMN...

just saw some of the most amazing sky lighting ever... a huge storm passed through the city, with tornado watch and the whole nine yards, leaving the most amazing afterglow. caught a rainbow, the clouds were crazy, it basically looked like an HDR shot, in real life. it was CRAZY! and I took most of the shots with the 5D just because I was more used to it. I tried the 7 first and was having some trouble.

 

I saw on the news that there were tornado sirens going off in Chicago, cant wait to see the pics!

 

yeah man it was crazy! damn we made it to your news?? cool lol.

here is the first panoramic! this is about an hour after the sirens ended. 5d.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1261/...a74f5019_o.jpg

 

Holy shit dude!
That's incredible!!!

 

nice!

 

I was looking out my window in awe as well. Unfortunately I was still chained to my office inside finishing work. I literally thought to myself "I freakin' hope Rubin is shooting this."