Posts Tagged Canon

In Depth Lens Reviews

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As you flesh out your camera equipment with new specialty lenses and bodies, it can be difficult to decide between lenses with similar zoom ranges or purposes. It’s hard to decipher marketing speak from reality as far as image quality and usability are concerned. I am always on the lookout for sites that give a focused, comprehensive look at a particular manufacturers lenses and equipment instead of trying to spread themselves too thin and give brief reviews on a lot of different systems.

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Canon 5D Mark II v1.0.7 Firmware Update

Canon quietly released firmware version 1.0.7 for the 5D Mark II which fixes:

Firmware Update Version 1.0.7 improves and mitigates the
following two types of image quality phenomena that occur
under certain shooting conditions.

   1.  "Black dot" phenomenon
      (the right side of point light sources become black)
   2.  Vertical banding noise
While I have not seen the first problem, having just shot about 5500 frames for Extreme Makeover Home Edition, about 1/8 of which probably had the sun IN the frame, we did recently send a body back to Canon with significant softness and noise banding issues. The quality coming out of this body was fairly poor, so I doubt a firmware update would have fixed the issues with it, but it does make you wonder how much of the image quality issues you see with first-run cameras pertain to the hardware itself or the software running that hardware. All of the bodies I have personally used seem to be fine, even pre-update.

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