9 days to XMAS and it's killing me!!!!

Items my wife let me open early (so far)
Canon 10D
28-135 IS
Hood for above lens
100-400L
420EX
CF cards
Extra Battery
Back Pack
EP-EX15
Card reader
Oh and NO CC payment ;

" Down side is there won't be much left to open Christmas morning "
Oh, you poor thing. I'm sure evryone feels just as bad for you as I do. NOT LOL

I want to trade Santa's with you. Mine sucks. LOL
 
Well theres my 0.02 cents of an attempt!!

Scott

Oh explain how complicated these darn new fangled lens are too!!!!

Maybe she'll buy it, just don't show her this thread!!!
My new Canon 70-200 F2.8L IS is sitting in the kitchen on the
counter. It's my XMAS present. It's not wrapped...it's just
sitting there...and my wife won't let me touch it. Oh, the agony
of it all!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Ken
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I think I will be allowed to use my 85 f/1.2 before Christmas to test out to make sure it works allright and so that I can practice with it to get good shots on the big day
 
FWIW, this lens will not manual focus in CF4-0 mode until its achieved focus through AF!

In cf4-1 it will focus.

This is some odd behavior that you shoulld be aware of with this lens, confused the heck out of me for a while! I don't know about the other CF4-x options cause I never use them.

Also the focus throw is REALLLLLLLLLLLL long on this lens at least 2/4 of a rotation, so it takes a while to focus.

Just thought you'd like to know,

Scott

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FWIW, this lens will not manual focus in CF4-0 mode until its
achieved focus through AF!

In cf4-1 it will focus.

This is some odd behavior that you shoulld be aware of with this
lens, confused the heck out of me for a while! I don't know about
the other CF4-x options cause I never use them.

Also the focus throw is REALLLLLLLLLLLL long on this lens at least
2/4 of a rotation, so it takes a while to focus.

Just thought you'd like to know,

Scott

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I keep hearing its so slow, but i guess i will find out when it comes

I ordered from b&h yesterday night at about 10:30 eastern and they still dont have a tracking number up on thier site. I got the cheapest shipping as I live almost right over the bridge in NJ, how long do you think the shipping will take?
 
I keep hearing its so slow, but i guess i will find out when it comes

I ordered from b&h yesterday night at about 10:30 eastern and they
still dont have a tracking number up on thier site. I got the
cheapest shipping as I live almost right over the bridge in NJ, how
long do you think the shipping will take?
Let me see, I just shipped something to NYC today and I'm in Princeton. Thay told me ground from this distance is 1 day! So your closer and we are talking UPS, I'd say you'll have it by New Years ;)

Ya the focus is pretty slow by todays standards but its not terrible. If you shooting a colloege or pro Basket ball game then you better know what the heck your doing! But it won't be too bad. This thing is just a monster you won't believe how big it is till you hold. The first word will be, WOW Cr@p that thing is HUGE! Is just you'll have to get used to the few idiosyncracies with this lens, mainly being how FTM(full time manual) works on it and the thing is one solid peice of glass or so it feels!

Scott

PS. I call it the MONSTER

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I keep hearing its so slow, but i guess i will find out when it comes

I ordered from b&h yesterday night at about 10:30 eastern and they
still dont have a tracking number up on thier site. I got the
cheapest shipping as I live almost right over the bridge in NJ, how
long do you think the shipping will take?
Let me see, I just shipped something to NYC today and I'm in
Princeton. Thay told me ground from this distance is 1 day! So
your closer and we are talking UPS, I'd say you'll have it by New
Years ;)

Ya the focus is pretty slow by todays standards but its not
terrible. If you shooting a colloege or pro Basket ball game then
you better know what the heck your doing! But it won't be too bad.
This thing is just a monster you won't believe how big it is till
you hold. The first word will be, WOW Cr@p that thing is HUGE! Is
just you'll have to get used to the few idiosyncracies with this
lens, mainly being how FTM(full time manual) works on it and the
thing is one solid peice of glass or so it feels!

Scott

PS. I call it the MONSTER

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http://www.pbase.com/sjhugoose
I think the 400mm f/2.8L I rented last week was a little bit bigger, but thats expected from a fast telephoto prime. Ive seen pictures of this thing and it looks huge, but im sure it will still impress me with its size.

And the 400mm f/2.8L had the electronic manual focusing, but it wasnt full time manual.
 
Your right the 400 is a monster, but you expect that of that type of lens. Trust me you won't expect the dimensions of this lens! But you will most certainly enjoy it!

Scott
I keep hearing its so slow, but i guess i will find out when it comes

I ordered from b&h yesterday night at about 10:30 eastern and they
still dont have a tracking number up on thier site. I got the
cheapest shipping as I live almost right over the bridge in NJ, how
long do you think the shipping will take?
Let me see, I just shipped something to NYC today and I'm in
Princeton. Thay told me ground from this distance is 1 day! So
your closer and we are talking UPS, I'd say you'll have it by New
Years ;)

Ya the focus is pretty slow by todays standards but its not
terrible. If you shooting a colloege or pro Basket ball game then
you better know what the heck your doing! But it won't be too bad.
This thing is just a monster you won't believe how big it is till
you hold. The first word will be, WOW Cr@p that thing is HUGE! Is
just you'll have to get used to the few idiosyncracies with this
lens, mainly being how FTM(full time manual) works on it and the
thing is one solid peice of glass or so it feels!

Scott

PS. I call it the MONSTER

--
http://www.pbase.com/sjhugoose
I think the 400mm f/2.8L I rented last week was a little bit
bigger, but thats expected from a fast telephoto prime. Ive seen
pictures of this thing and it looks huge, but im sure it will still
impress me with its size.

And the 400mm f/2.8L had the electronic manual focusing, but it
wasnt full time manual.
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http://www.pbase.com/sjhugoose
 

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