wireless speed

here is the speed of my wireless connection, not bad for living in the sticks.

Heading to Vegas

I leave Tuesday for Photoshop world in Vegas! I hope to talk to a Canon rep there and get some more insight into my Mark II. This is the second PW I have gone to and the last one was very infromative, if only I could retain 10% of what I hear.
I may post some images here from the conference.
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Baseball images

I think I finally am getting this system figured out! These images were taken with the 1Ds and 400 2.8 lens. This is a great combo.

Girl and Dawg

This was taken with the Mark II and 70-200 f/2.8 ISO 100.
This lens is amazing, very sharp.

Track Meet Shoot

Here are some images from the track meet I shot today. I have to say I was very happy with the cameras performance today. I think I am finally getting the hang of it. I used the Mark II with the 400mm f/2.8 lens ISO 100 Aperature Priority. Raw image format.

Real world test

Today I had 3 shooting assignments and chose to bite the bullet and use the Canon. It worked very well, the only hang up is I still can't use the equipment as fast as I could the Nikon. But I am confident that the "second nature" feel of the camera will come sooner or later. My biggest comment to Canon would be make the auto focus selection a ONE BUTTON process!!!! The process of having to push a combo of buttons and two different control dials is very cumbersome.
The other thing I have noticed consistantly is that the exposures tend to be on the over exposed side by at least 3/4 to a full stop. Also the latitude of exposure is less than that on the Nikon, it reminds me of shooting with Kodachrome in the old days.....
My biggest advice is to always shoot in the raw format, you can make up for a lot of sins of shooting in post production and Photoshop CS2's camera raw is fantastic! Watch out though, the file size can be daunting.
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More Images

Here are a few more images from yesterday. I think I have really started to figure out the auto focus. I noticed that setting the AF point to "auto" works very well, it is just against everything I stand for in photography, but then I said that when zoom lenses came out...showing my age a bit now....
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