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SonomaBear · 07-31-2019

Can the R backup the SD card via USB-C cable to an external SSD?This would help not having a sedcond card slot. When in the field between sessions, I'd like to attach the SSD and have R backup the card to the SSD. I could then swap cards knowing th...

SonomaBear · 01-13-2015

This may have been answered elsewhere and I should know the answer... All things being equal, an i mage taken by both lenses (24-70 f2.8 and 24-70 f4) of same subject, same body, same settings, both wide open, other than shutter speed one stop differ...

SonomaBear · 08-08-2019

I attach mine directly to the hot shoe on my R since I rarely use flash outside.I have the Canon "off camera" cable but it too only has one hot shoe.3rd party off camera cables have two hot shoes: https://www.amazon.com/Godox-Camera-Flash-Speedlite-...

SonomaBear · 07-31-2019

Thank you, Waddizzle -- I own two of them! I'll probably sell one and buy the SSD version.Today I read the cards into one of them between shoots and before storing the card. Never had a failure with these drives but some sessions can never be repea...

SonomaBear · 01-14-2015

Thank you, Tim In the standard lens range, I am not (rarely) shooting moving subjects and almost always hand held (macro & primes for tripods). That said, the IS will be very helpful. I was fixated on the background blur of my L lenses at f2.8 but I...

SonomaBear · 01-14-2015

Thank you ebiggs1 --I use my 70-200 f2.8 occasionally for portraits but it is best only for known shooting rather than candids -- that big ole white lens can scare children and elderly! And my 70-200 is very old (from my 650 days) so there is no IS ...

SonomaBear · 01-13-2015

Thank you Scotty... an old man can learn a new trick.I always thought that DOF was nil at max aperture rather than a slight difference based upon the max. So a 1.4 prime will had a bit less DOF than a 1.8 all else being equal.Since I shoot so many po...

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