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This sounds like a fun summer, even with the heat (I’ve lived in Louisiana and Arizona both, and I’ll take the desert heat any day over the muggy torture that is the bayous).

Find a weekend to camp somewhere up on the Mogollon Rim if you can. Man, it’s gorgeous up there.

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Neat… and timely! I’ve got overtime to go spend and have been considering options for a macro light…

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Holy isht, that’s awesome!
definitely some cool shots!

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ok, they let me go (gee, thanks… almost midnight…). Just ran a 100% enlargement with cubic and Lanczos and stacked them in layers so I could cycle back and forth. The two look very close, and I had to zoom in to 200% to really see any difference. Bicubic has slightly sharper edges, but also appears to introduce more artifacts. Lanczos is not quite as sharp in my test, but the image is noticeably smoother. I’ll post a side-by-side if anyone wants a gander, but they’re difficult to tell apart unless stacked.

I can’t compare with PS (on account of being a Cheap Bastard?) so I’m not sure how useful my comparison is. Holler if you want me to post, but it will be tomorrow evening so it might be easier for someone with more free time to do the same since lately I never know whether I’m going to be at work or home at any given minute…

…and I’m beat and off to bed.

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Also take a look at gimp, after 2.4 the scale function can be set to use a mode called Sinc (Lanczos 3), which has generated some debate over being better/worse than bicubic. I’ve been using that to upscale images, applying a slight unsharp mask then reducing back to original size with pleasing results.

If I get off work today I’ll try to do a side-by-side just to satisfy my curiosity.

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5Dii? http://haodascreen.com/Canon5D.aspx

ooohhh…. just what I need! Funny that until today I never even thought about the focus screen being so easily replaceable.

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Pity the katzeye folks don’t have a screen for my model… I’ve REALLY missed having a split-screen.

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Sheesh! Fell off a mountain, fell out of a boat TWICE, lost his gear… I want to say this guy needs a new hobby, except for the fact that what he’s doing is simply stunning and I hope he keeps doing it. Without dying.

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hahahahah… that’s great!

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I really like the synagogue shots, and Osgoode Hall… nice perspective on that one.

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Neat. But I’ll keep my dslr.

Oh hell yes…but aside from the obvious optical resolution and quality advantages of a DSLR (among other things), it is a pretty nifty bit of kit for a P/S. Even if it is a little bulky for one, 24-720mm in a small package is enough to make me not too concerned with how much CA it may have.

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f-ratio stays the same… effective focal length is multiplied by 1.6 on the Rebel. Assuming EF lens, EFS lenses are marked with a focal length appropriate for the smaller sensors.

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I really like this idea….

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You can also use http://www.tineye.com to crawl for your images, there’s even a firefox plugin that adds it to rght-click context.

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Let’s put it this way. From what I’ve seen, this lens is so good, I’m considering getting it and adapting it to Nikon.

Now my brain hurts, so I gotta ask: How? Isn’t the mount-focal plane distance longer on the Nikon than the Canon? What happens to the focus range when an adapter is added to the train? ❓ I know this works well for Nikon glass on a Canon body since the adapter ring cancels the difference… does it just shift the focus range in towards the image plane? Obviously beinag able to achieve focus at infinity isn’t an issue with that lens…

The sample images I’ve seen for that lens really are nice…

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