I have a consumer Canon camera. Can I put a professional L-series lens on it?
Canon EOS Beginners' FAQ III - LensesThe major issue you really have to be concerned about is weight, since a really heavy lens can strain the lens mount. The answer is to support the heavy lens by the lens itself - just let the camera hang off the back of the lens. The weight of the camera is not going to strain the lens mount. This applies to all low to midrange EOS cameras, since even those cameras with metal lens mounts have steel mounts attached to plastic body frames.
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Canon EOS Beginners' FAQ III - LensesCanon sell a number of lenses in a special series they refer to as L for luxury. These are their most expensive and highest-quality lenses, and are readily identifiable by the red stripe painted around the end of the barrel. L series lenses offer higher optical quality than their non-L equivalents, and have an important technical aspect in common.
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Rad-icon Imaging Corporation - Frequently Asked QuestionsThe simple answer is that our standard detectors are rated for the 10-50 kV energy range, whereas the EV series detectors are rated up to 160 kV. However, the actual situation is a bit more complicated. All x-ray detectors deteriorate over time as a function of the accumulated x-ray dose to the detector. The higher the x-ray energy, the faster the detector deteriorates.
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Mega Man: The Series | FAQNo. It is neither official nor canon. Quite frankly I consider only things created by one of Capcom’s own development teams to be “canon” and I am not one of those. If anyone tries to tell you the books are canon kindly correct them because I do not make that claim. The Series is merely my own portrayal of the Mega Man series and characters.
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C-750 Ultra Zoom > Frequently Asked QuestionsYou will need the CLA-4 Conversion Lens Adapter. It provides a 55mm mounting thread for a 55mm filter or conversion lens. This can be purchased through the Olympus Emporium or by phone at 1-800-201-7766.
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Machine Vision Guide - Frequently Asked QuestionsMachine vision optics should be mounted firmly but should not be stressed by excessive force. Do not rely on the camera C-mount thread to support heavy lenses. Either mount the lens and let the camera be supported by the lens, or provide support for both. Avoid over-tightening lens mounting clamps.
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Tiffen Filters FAQs - Tiffen.ComYes, you can. Our screw in filters ( except for the the WID types ), are double threaded and can be screwed together. Stacking filters can create different effects and bring out your creativity. The only caution is that as you put more filters on the lens you can create vignetting or the cutting off of the corners of your picture. This can happen more with wide angle lenses. We do not make every filter for this purpose.
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Equus Luminous • Frequently Asked QuestionsThe Canon D60 with a Canon 70 - 200 mm f/2.8L USM lens. The camera captures 6.3 megapixels and allows us to print poster size images. The lens is one of the best in its class and the quality shows through to the images.
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Surveillance camera: how to choose and basic factsChoosing a suitable lens for your security camera, you need first to determine how far you want to monitor the scene. A 4mm lens will give a 72 degree visual angle of view for a person's face detail in about 30 feet. This will be adequate for most home or small office surveillance system. Based on this calculation, a 8mm lens will give a 40 degree visual angle and zoom in 2 times of the view in the same distance.
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Jedi Council Literature Forum Frequently Asked QuestionsCanon refers to an authoritative list of books that the Lucas Licensing editors consider an authentic part of the official Star Wars history. Our goal is to present a continuous and unified history of the Star Wars galaxy, insofar as that history does not conflict with, or undermine the meaning of Mr. Lucas's Star Wars saga of films and screenplays.
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Pre-View : Picture framing visualisation, Visualise the pict...While Pre-View will not operate your camera remotely, it will work with the the jpg files produced by any digital camera. Most cameras, when attached by USB appear to the computer as an additional drive. Just navigate to the image folder within this drive when you use Get Image/From File. A message, ‘Camera not connected to the computer’ appears when the “Get Image From Camera” button is pressed.
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FAQ: Canon EF 100 400 L IS at All Day I Dream About Photogra...This one is unanimous, all the forums threads I’ve read agrees that the Canon EF 70 200 L f/2.8 wipes the floor, or if you prefer wins hands down against the Canon EF 100 400 L IS in their overlapping zoom range. Well it depends on the teleconverter itself, it seems that the Canon EF 70 200 L with a 1.4x has a slightly better image quality than the 100 400 L, but that the Canon EF 100 400 L IS wins if you decide to add a 2x teleconverter to the Canon EF 70 200 IS L f/2.8
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Canon EOS Beginners' FAQ III - LensesDespite Canons vigorous advertising campaign against third-party lenses a lot of people happily use lenses made by Tamron, Tokina and Sigma (and lenses with other brandnames but probably built by one of those three). And theres one really good reason for this - the third party lenses are almost always much much cheaper than equivalent offerings from Canon. So. Should you buy a third party lens? Its not a simple yes/no issue, so here are some points to consider.
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Canon EOS Beginners' FAQ III - LensesAbsolutely. The 100mm 2.8 macro and macro USM lenses are both excellent portrait lenses in addition to being great macro lenses. The only problem is that theyre extremely sharp lenses, and some people prefer softer lenses for portraiture, particularly of women. If youre in that camp you could always slap a soft focus filter onto the lens.
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LensMateOnline - F A QNo. For the G1/G2, the Canon lens cap is a nonstandard size designed to fit the trim ring (that you remove when attaching any adapter) at the base of the lens only. With the LensMate adapter on, any standard 49mm snap-in, screw-on or slide-on lens cap will fit. For the G3/G5, you may choose from many standard 52mm or 58mm caps (depending on which size G3/G5 adapter you are using) including the "clip-in" type we sell.
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FAQthis time there are presently not any wireless LANC controllers available that we know of (other than the short range controller that comes with the camera). However, we currently have one under development. It will be added to our list of options as soon as it's available. SAFETY IS OF UTMOST IMPORTANCE! We have, in our instruction booklet, guidelines, directions, and engineered drawings for permanent cable installation, including cable tensioning instructions.
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Lens Test Archive and ReviewsWhat are you looking to upgrade? If you need IS, get the 17-55mm f2.8. If you can't afford the 17-55, and you really, really need IS – and you're not that unhappy with the resolution of the kit lens – get the Canon 17-85mm IS, but know this: it is considerably softer, and up to two stops slower, than the excellent Tamron 17-50mm f2.8. the time of writing, there is no Canon equivalent of the excellent VR (image stabilised) long Nikon zooms.
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M A G I C - F I L T E R SYes! Many of you will have got these lenses with your DSLR and will want to put them to use underwater. Both the Canon 17-85mm and Nikon 18-70mm will work well with the filter. However neither are really excellent quality lenses for UW photography and therefore we do not supply 67mm diameter filters pre cut to fit these lenses. Your will need to buy a M77 for these lenses. And then either mount it in a 77mm filter holder (that we can suppy) and fit it to your lens with a step-up filter ring.
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H?rnList & H?rnForum - H?rn Frequently Asked Questions (H?rn...Canon" refers to the body of H?rn material, including both H?rnmaster rules and H?rnworld environment, that has been officially published by CGI or Kelestia. The term is used to distinguish such material from fan-produced material (sometimes called "fanon").
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Is material posted to Dargon-L canon?
DargonZine Writers' FAQIf someone discusses (for example) an idea about a new coin, it doesn't become an immutable fact unless it sees print in a story. As authors, we are bound by what the readers have seen within the pages of the magazine. We are not bound by ideas that have been presented in Dargon-L. The ultimate test of whether something is a fact is whether or not it has seen print.
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FAQ: Canon EF 100 400 L IS at All Day I Dream About Photogra...This Canon lens is a very popular lens and is used in a great varieties of photography like wildlife, birding, sport and landscape.
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FAQ: Canon EF 100 400 L IS at All Day I Dream About Photogra...This question is rather hard to answer simply because owners seems to be divided, but most of them agree that you can easily get used to it. Some even claims that it is rather practical for sport photography. Big issue with the push/pull? It sucks dust right into your sensor
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FAQ: Canon EF 100 400 L IS at All Day I Dream About Photogra...It seems that if there is one advantage in the push/pull design this is it, and since the lens extends when going on the long side it make is easier to support handheld
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FAQ: Canon EF 100 400 L IS at All Day I Dream About Photogra...From the Image Quality side, the Canon EF 100 400 L IS and a 1.4x teleconverter is still pretty pretty good, the down side of this combo is the Auto Focus. Remember that the 100 400 is a f/4.5 f/5.6 lens and that the teleconverter will make you loose an extra stop so it will be a f/5.6 f/8. Canon EOS cameras2 can’t focus past f/5.6. If you are using a cheap teleconverter like the Tamron “base” model not the pro.
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Digital Imaging - dslreports.comFirst of all, DO NOT use Q-tips or any other product similar. The fine strands of cotton can scratch the lens surface. It is recommended that you purchase a camera cleaning kit. It is a good investment to keep your camera looking and taking pictures like new. ednote: one of the best investments one can make is to get a skylight or uv filter (if possible), and just keep it on all the time. If you mess up the filter, you can always replace it.
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Frequently Asked QuestionsFrom our experience with our past customers, we recommend a lens of 35mm. The larger the lens the wider the picture and the farther away your pictures will be. In addition, we do not recommend you bring a telephoto lens camera as it will not give you best scenic picture quality.
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Canon EOS Beginners' FAQ III - Lenseswith buying a camera there are a lot of things to consider, so this question really cant be asked without asking many more questions first. Here are some of them:
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