Knuckledragger

I hate to be a party pooper, but I'm seeing a fair amount of CA in that shot, even at the resolution presented. Rummaging around on your site, it looks like you shot wide open (F/1.4) 1/15th, ISO320. I suggest stopping down, bumping up the ISO and/or getting a tripod. Certainly, you can push an original 5D to ISO800 with no sweat.

Someting I ate on Tuesday made me quite ill. I spent all of yesterday in bed, except for the 20 minutes I managed to get up, and eat a rice cake. Today's achievements have been "sitting up" and "walking." Next challenge might be "going downstairs" and (shudder) "trying to eat."

hunter3!

You bum! *I* want an EOS-1V! ...uhh, by that I mean "congratulations, you now have the best EF mount film body Canon ever made." I have not purchased one because they command too much on the used market. My next film body will be an EOS 1N or EOS3. Hey Aerius, you have any scans of your Velvia 50 shots?

Didn't Oppo used to make silver units? I swear some of their older upscaling DVD players were silver.

I had use of an 85L II for five days last year. My best advice with regard do that lens is this: Don't try it if you don't want to buy it. As the saying goes "A luxury, once sampled, become a necessity." Longtime readers of this thread might ave seen some of these images before: The 85L has a number of downsides besides cost. It's gigantic, massively heavy, and both its objective and rear elements are huge and very vulnerable. Were I to shoot with it all the time, I'd invest in a battery grip (seriously the 85L's AF motor sucks juice like no tomorrow) and an UpStrap. The weight does have one odd bonus. It makes the camera so dense, I was able to hold it for 1/13th of a second and get a surprising number of keepers, like this one: F/1.2, 1/13th (ya rly), ISO1600. It was stupidly dark inside the nightclub.

Has to be the same dude. Also:

I will say that my use of Velvia 50 with human subjects is pretty limited. At nearly $3/frame when all is said and done, I don't shoot it casually. What I suspect is that if people are using light sources besides daylight, it's quite possible that Velvia 50 renders skin tones in a reddish manner. I really like black & white film for portraiture. Kodak BW400CN works in a pinch, and can be developed anywhere. It is no substitute for Tri-X, however.

From what I've observed of rave culture, MDMA can lead to magical star fairies.