Comments for Thomas Fitzgerald Photography

Comment on Dublin In Black & White by Nicola

Nicola — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:04:53 +0000

Faboulous Depth I love the Man with the Bike. Nic x

Comment on New York City Portfolio by New Gallery – New York City | Thomas Fitzgerald Photography

New Gallery – New York City | Thomas Fitzgerald Photography — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:25:52 +0000

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Comment on Are the Canon 5D Focus Problems Real? by Deborah

Deborah — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 08:27:23 +0000

This problem has been a nightmare for me. I took what was a big leap for me, investing in the 5D to start a business with the expectation that it would be a great camera and do all I needed it to do. For awhile it was spectacular… and then the auto focus problems started. I had it in the Canon Service Center in October ‘09, again in January, and it needs to go again already. Completely undependable at this point. Almost in focus doesn’t begin to cut it.

Comment on The Joy of Cha by Thomas

Thomas — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:53:23 +0000

Hey, thanks for the comment – I’m glad you liked it. Id love to send you a print if you’d like. You can let me know by responding to this or emailing me directly

Comment on Rebel Without a Cause by Stephen Melvin

Stephen Melvin — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:51:30 +0000

The reactions some people are having to this camera (and the 7D before it) seem to be based more on some of the old wives’ tales they learned on DP Review rather than from actual experience.

I own a 7D and find its sensor to be excellent. I have several non-L lenses that have more than enough resolution for the sensor. The 17-55 f/2.8, in particular, produces absolutely phenomenal lenses in combination with the 7D. When I want absolute image quality, I use this combo a lot more than I use my 5D.

My reaction to the 550D announcement was that I became very, very interested in it. If the sensor performs as well as the 7D’s, this would make an excellent back-up camera at events. In fact, its much-lighter weight could make this my primary camera for a lot of work.

Canon (and Nikon and Pentax and everybody else) has long sold cameras with lenses that couldn’t get the most out of their cameras. Think about all those crappy 35-70s that were sold over the years during the film era. Just because they come with a mediocre lens doesn’t mean the rest of the camera shouldn’t be a good performer. The interchangeable lens is the whole reason for this class of camera to exist, after all.

And even with a crappy kit lens, this will still outperform any compact camera.

There is no penalty for the higher resolution of the sensor. One of the old wives tales is that smaller photosites lead to lower dynamic range, yet DXO itself shows the 7D having 2/3 stop greater DN than the original 5D. That the D90 scores better than the Canons in this department says more about their relative sensor design philosophies than about their pixel pitch.

Your followup post shows the D90 outperforming the 550D in the DXOMark sensor scale 72.6 to 65.6. DXO states that 5 points is 1/3 stop, and this is a seven point difference, so it’s less than half a stop difference between the two in that particular measurement. I truly question whether any image quality differences will be noticeable in typical sized prints.

People get so worked up sometimes, often based on what they think they know, or when just pixel-peeping. These cameras are well beyond anything we could do in the film era (ever see prints from 3200 speed 35mm film? it isn’t pretty), so really, it’s much ado about nothing as far as I’m concerned.

Comment on The Joy of Cha by Dara

Dara — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 21:38:10 +0000

I like the pic and the iPhone project.I am one of the partners in the Joy of Cha, so thanks, and let us know when next in Dublin. I’ll buy you a tea.

Comment on I Rest My Case by Ken Schneider

Ken Schneider — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 04:11:08 +0000

Thomas, I am proud of you for writing the truth… Canon campers can’t see the forest because of too many trees (pixels). Step back from the trees and there is clearly a beautifull forest. Long ago(in photo years) a 40d showed me this forest and it was great…Now it looks like canon will keep planting too many trees in small forest. What a shame…..Ken…ps. Thomas, please step out from behind that camera. We would like to see this man who calls it like it is.

Comment on I Rest My Case by Paul Simon

Paul Simon — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 02:16:45 +0000

Let those bitches from Nikon camp rant whatever they want. They are those who, from facade, bitchy and critical toward Canon but at the same time behind backdoor they pray every night for Nikon to increase the megapixels and improve video capability to full HD 1080p. Freaks.

I will pick up this new and wonderful Canon Rebel camera soon. I love to take photograph. Mama, I used to have Nikon camera back in the film days but no more…

Comment on Rebel Without a Cause by Damon

Damon — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 01:50:07 +0000

Can you all please take a step back, complete an electrical engineering degree (like I have) and then you might be in a better position to understand why Canon is doing what they are doing, it is not just marketing. It is not a simple matter of making a ‘better’ 12MP sensor by sprinkling some fairy dust on it to make the noise go away.

But I do agree 18MP does seem like a lot. If only someone would release a cheap full frame……

Comment on I Rest My Case by EvoMan

EvoMan — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 17:16:47 +0000

Um, maybe it’s the raw converter used, not the camera:

http://www.prophotohome.com/news/2009/11/19/canon-7d-worse-than-canon-rebel-xsi/

Rant all you want, I’ll pick up a 550D for stock work, which means no more upsizing and I’ll make money with it.