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Okay, I’ll admit it, I was slightly bored today in class.  So I got to thinking about the different modes on the elph and wondered if they had a portrait mode, a beach mode, a stiching mode and a sunset mode why didn’t they have a nighttime mode.  So I pull it out of my bag at lunch and lo-there it was Nighttime mode (no MypoicJoe, not Nightmare mode!)  So after a bite to eat with some old friends I had to walk off the Filet and so I wandered around the city along Atlantic Ave which allowed me to shoot my favorite Boston Landmark-the Boston Custom House.  I shot it from many sides, even getting the moon as it peaked out from the clouds in a few but none struck my fancy as much as this one:

The Boston Custom House

As I wandered further I came across one of my other favorite winter landmarks-the walkway behind the Marriott Long Wharf that leads to the North End (must go to Mike’s and get rainbow cake with marzipan before I head home, if you’ve never been to Mike’s Pastry the next time you go to Boston it is a must-it’s always packed and for good reason, it is some of the best Italian cookies, canoli, pastry and marzipan to be found.  Anywhere)  As I was saying, the walkway is almost always lit up, but I guess this year it’s been so cold they haven’t wanted to take down the wreath:

Behind the Marriott Long Wharf

Both of these were taken on Nighttime mode and I think it is a big improvement over the one of the Park Street Church from last night there is still appreciable noise but it was much more easily handled in photoshop.  The only processing I did other than using Noise Ninja was some exposure control to bump up the black and a bit of clarity increase (both done in LR2)

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Canon finally announced the 5D MarkII today pre-Tokina .  DP Review has this to say.  21.1 MP-that’s not the good part for me, and is actually a bit of a negative those file sizes are HUGE, I’ll have to be adding to my HD farm when I get.  HD 1080 Movie-something that I’m not all that interested in but I think is pretty cool given the length that can be recorded.  170 degree angle of view on the 3inch screen with live preview-that’s nice.   Improved menu syste-given what Jon Fuller said about his-that he loved the camera but hated the menus and liked the 40D menus better I’m happy to hear that.   The price is really attractive too-$2699.00.  I’ve been wanting a full frame camera for a while and I’m glad I chose to wait.  I think I see one in my future.

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Evolution

Canon yesterday put up a teaser on it’s website for what is probably the 5D replacement.   Now that’s what I call foreshadowing.

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Canon 50D

The newest Canon has just been announced… in China.  I can’t read Chinese but Bob Atkins apparently has the people who can read the article to find out more about…

15.5 MP

Live Preview

In Camera Image Stabilization….WOW!

Face Recognition (not a big one for me no matter how hard I try I can not do justice to people when taking pictures)

It is not full frame-the only downfall I see, I was hoping for a replacement for the 5D in that respect

Micro Autofocus adjustment

And more

Well, I think I’m glad I didn’t buy that 5D that I was thinking about….

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