well, cuz the Apple ipad2 smart cover is one of the biggest, worst designed, badly executed pieces of crap ever marketed by a major corporation. threw mine out a day after i got it.

ah, glad to see that y'all in manhattan have the same shitty service with AT&T as we do here in Brooklyn. makes me wish i smoked so i would have something to do while standing outside my apartment trying to call a client about a gig.

i'm in the same boat as Dave - professional event shooter...you can have my DSLR when you pry it from my cold cold dead hands.

well, as an owner/shooter of a RB67, C-220 TLR, AE-1, 4 polaroid cameras of various sorts plus a couple 6x9 folding land cameras - I use a 1dmk4 with a 300/2.8 IS in the tents for NYC fashion week...i still can't imagine hanging a 300mm lens on this form factor. just seems like defeating the whole purpose of this…

sorry...give me a minute to wrap my head around the visual of hanging a 300mm lens off the front of that camera.

i thought it was very slow and clunky as a photo management system. I love it for prep though. (don't get me started on Aperture - what a bloated POS). i'm a 100k images per year event shooter and live/die/swear by Photo Mechanic. nothing out right now comes close to it's flexibility and sheer speed - good enough…

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as a cablevision subscribing ipad owner, i just weep at all these awesome streaming apps that i know will NEVER be approved. hell, we didn't get Food Network & Speed until 3 years ago and cablevision picks a fight with some awesome network on the regular.

err...let's be honest here. other than i think "rollin' in the deep" is a catchy song, i'm not an adele fan. if i show up at her show, it's because i was assigned to go as "work." if i have to pay to go to work, then it's the same as you going to your place of work and having to pay to sit in your cubicle. she is…

hi! i'm a working freelance photographer who shoots live shows from time to time as assignments from my various clients/editors. I regularly donate my time and money to charity, but if i showed up at an Adele show expecting to shoot my 3 songs and out (standard SOP for shooting live bands) and was told i had to pay…

yep, that pretty much seals the deal.

nope. the neither model of 5D isn't weather sealed to this level (mk1 has no weather sealing and mk2 is pretty much by definition only - the battery door and card door are pretty flimsy). same result with or without a L-series lens. i doubt a truly weather sealed 1D could have survived this.

will take that under advisement. i am gonna point out that i keep WD40 in my toolbox and prefer not to keep kersosene in my house (i live in brooklyn, have no garage/basement/non-living area to store flammables)

hmmm...i clean my chain with WD40 before waxing/tightening it every 500 miles.

eh, i'm a working professional photographer and i love all the neat camera apps out there. i love seeing non-professionals take pictures with whatever - there are few things in life as soul-satifisying as a well-shot picture.

well, i'm pretty sure that someone buying it would be buying for the dual use, not for just stills. if i didn't do both stills and video in the same shoot on a fairly regular basis, i would have the same feelings as you - a RRS or Markins system with a L plate and arca-swiss QR pretty much makes me drool.

you did notice that the manfrotto head in question does both ball head movements for stills and fluid head for video, right?

that's awesome. which car was his favorite?

man, it must be the event photographer in me...but either all of those celebs are short or the shooter who shot that red carpet coverage was very tall or on a turtleshell. lots of downward shots in that gallery.

Fuji makes a proper sized peel apart instant film for my medium format gear...just not the same look as 669. photoshop just isn't the same as the actual analog film stock.