{"id":131,"date":"2009-11-12T23:31:51","date_gmt":"2009-11-13T06:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kurtlawson.com\/?p=131"},"modified":"2009-12-08T10:36:58","modified_gmt":"2009-12-08T17:36:58","slug":"upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kurtlawson.com\/?p=131","title":{"rendered":"Upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_135\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-135\" style=\"width: 706px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kurtlawson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/IMG_0077.jpg\" alt=\"Palm Tree and Puffy Clouds\" title=\"Palm\" width=\"706\" height=\"471\" class=\"size-full wp-image-135\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.kurtlawson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/IMG_0077.jpg 706w, https:\/\/blog.kurtlawson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/IMG_0077-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 100vw, 706px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-135\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Palm Tree and Puffy Clouds - Canon 5D Mark II with 16-35 2.8L @ 23mm, 1\/200 at f\/9.0 ISO 100<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After months of deliberation and planning, I&#8217;ve finally upgraded to a 5D Mark II. I&#8217;m hoping this new camera will help take my photography to the next level. The resolution is more than double that of my 40d (21.1 megapixels vs 10.1) and I have long been looking forward having a full 35mm sized sensor. Moving from an APS-C sized sensor in the 40d to full frame means that my 10-22mm lens will no longer work, as this lens physically not fit in front of the larger mirror box. For the ultra-wide focal range I have decided to replace the 10-22 with the 16-35mm f\/2.8 L lens. This is a nearly identical field of view range but for the larger sensor and at a constant 2.8 aperture. The above image, a quick snapshot on my way to work, was taken with the new combo. When I downloaded the morning&#8217;s images I was stunned to see the sharpness in the palm tree. Below are 100% crops from the raw image. There&#8217;s a little bit of processing in Lightroom (default sharpness is used). This is a tremendous improvement on image detail, and I&#8217;m really looking forward to using this new tool in the field.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_133\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-133\" style=\"width: 706px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kurtlawson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/IMG_0077_crop_center.jpg\" alt=\"100% crop near the center of the Palm image\" title=\"Palm - center crop\" width=\"706\" height=\"471\" class=\"size-full wp-image-133\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.kurtlawson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/IMG_0077_crop_center.jpg 706w, https:\/\/blog.kurtlawson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/IMG_0077_crop_center-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 100vw, 706px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-133\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">100% crop near the center of the Palm image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_134\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-134\" style=\"width: 706px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kurtlawson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/IMG_077_crop_top.jpg\" alt=\"100% crop from the top of the Palm image\" title=\"Palm - top crop\" width=\"706\" height=\"471\" class=\"size-full wp-image-134\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.kurtlawson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/IMG_077_crop_top.jpg 706w, https:\/\/blog.kurtlawson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/IMG_077_crop_top-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 100vw, 706px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-134\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">100% crop from the top of the Palm image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_132\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-132\" style=\"width: 706px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kurtlawson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/IMG_077_crop_bottom.jpg\" alt=\"100% crop of the bottom trunk in the Palm image\" title=\"Palm - bottom crop\" width=\"706\" height=\"471\" class=\"size-full wp-image-132\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.kurtlawson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/IMG_077_crop_bottom.jpg 706w, https:\/\/blog.kurtlawson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/IMG_077_crop_bottom-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 100vw, 706px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-132\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">100% crop of the bottom trunk in the Palm image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I have many more updates planned. I can&#8217;t wait to go out and shoot with the new gear!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After months of deliberation and planning, I&#8217;ve finally upgraded to a 5D Mark II. I&#8217;m hoping this new camera will help take my photography to the next level. The resolution is more than double that of my 40d (21.1 megapixels vs 10.1) and I have long been looking forward having [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gear","category-los-angeles-county"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kurtlawson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kurtlawson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kurtlawson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kurtlawson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kurtlawson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kurtlawson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kurtlawson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions\/209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kurtlawson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kurtlawson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kurtlawson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}