has anyone gotten smooth motion with a canon 5dM3 mounted and a 24-70 2.8 MII?
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Yes. I found industrial strength silicone spray lubricant works great. Typically use a very generous amount and then wipe it down. You can find it any any hardware store. However, i do have to agree with Louroy, there is only going to be so much you can do with this one. To get a really smooth slide, I would upgrade to the $650-$1000 range.
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7d w/16-35 or 24-105 both have good motion - but you get what you pay for. Spend the $650 if you need perfection, or fiddle with this one til you get it right.
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Hi Silvia. I have not found it a problem at all. Without the use of a tripod, nobody is perfectly steady. My shots come out clear. I have no complaints.
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any motion you bring about by handling the camera or the tripod or the Opteka head will of course affect the camera's ability to take sharply focused images. But when you are done with your positioning of the camera and use a remote to trigger the shutter, you should be fine. The smoothness of the gimbal's workings depends entirely on how your want it to work. If the mechanism is too stiff you simply lubricate the moving surfaces with some carbon.
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I shoot a 5D mark 3 with a better grip and 600 flash. No problems, best investment ever! As for the tripod mount too depends on the mount size but some work
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I don't know but me I take photo with a Canon 7D and a lens 70-200 and it's very stable and I love to work with this monopod. Sorry for my english but I am french speaking.
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Your auto focus will be reeeaaaally slow. Cant speak for 5d3 but on 1ds3 you'll be faster focusing with hand.
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I had to use my Canon 70- 300 tele to accomodate properly...i didn't try with a 100mm
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Yes I used it on 7d with 70-200 lens leaning against a wall or a tree(takes a little patience).
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Yes. I angled my mount upwards to shoot video but it vibrates too much to enjoy the video afterwards. That was mountain biking though without full suspension.
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Send it back. I have not had an issue using this grip with the 5dm2 in the vertical position
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I used it with my Canon t2i and had a shotgun mic and a CN-160 light attached with a hotshoe mount, and no issues... only thing I am not a fan of if the fact you have yo slide it to the end to adjust the fluid head.. Other than that I am cool with it over all
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More information is needed. What kind of camera are you using, how fast are you going, what kind of surface are you driving on, how are you configuring the mount?
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I pre-ordered. I agree with PencilInWin - the early bug rate in newly released Canon cameras has been very high. The 1DM3 had the focus issues, my 5DM2 had the notorious "error 20" issues necessitating 3 (yes, that's three) trips to the Canon repair facility for shutter assembly replacements. However, I got an early 1DsM3 and I am thrilled with it. I am going to sell my 5dM2 and switch the workflow I used to do with it to the 1DM4. Hope Canon got this one right from the get-go.
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I have used this with some tests shots in traffic, testing the tracking features of the Canon 7D Mark II. It did ok some of the time, but the camera said it lost communication with the lens at other times. I haven't seen this with my other cameras (70D and 6D), and only with the 7d in high speed burst mode. I used it once with either the 6D or the 70D (don't remember) to take a lot of pictures during a high school volleyball game with no obvious problems. And I've used the lens a lot with both cameras for other purposes. I don't find that it does really well in IQ below f/3.5. So I avoid shooting wider than that. The VC is great.
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Not much has been said about whether or not the 'improved' image stabilization is actually improved that much. I have the FZ28 and at 18X it can be a little shaky. Has anyone found it improved in the FZ35?
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I use it on my 5D Mkii and 7D and it works pretty well in conjunction with my image stabilized lenses. Still needs some warp stabilizing in Premier to smooth out a bit. But makes very smooth (almost) movie quality transitions.
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I use a Nikon D-800 so different camera, but observing how the Canon's LCD swings out with the very nice 70D it would probably run into the left-hand pillar before swinging out 180 degrees. Good shooting!