{"id":2389,"date":"2013-03-01T07:54:17","date_gmt":"2013-03-01T05:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlebigtravelingcamera.com\/?p=2389"},"modified":"2013-03-01T07:54:17","modified_gmt":"2013-03-01T05:54:17","slug":"pelican-and-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlebigtravelingcamera.com\/?p=2389","title":{"rendered":"Pelican and Snow"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"IMG_0937\"<\/a>Canon EOS 6D (245mm, f\/4, 1\/1000 sec, ISO400)
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Yes this is still a blog dedicated to little cameras with big sensors => littlebigtravelingcameras. And the Canon 6D is one. It’s not exactly little but little by full frame standards. And it features GPS. Finally one of my cameras is capable to record where I took the image. Great. Just like my iPhone. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

It’s a modern DSLR and shooting it just feels good. I need to use it a little bit more before I will put down my final thoughts but I like it so far. I also changed my lenses. I traded in my Canon 5D, 17-40L, 4\/24-105L, 4\/70-200 IS L, 135L and TC 1.4 mkII \u00a0to get the Canon 6D, 4\/24-70 IS L, 2.8\/70-200 IS L mkII and the TC 1.4 mkIII.<\/p>\n

This was my first outing with the 2.8\/70-200 IS L mkII. There was heavy snowfall the night before so I went to the Zoo in Vienna to test it. It’s good to have a fast lens again. Don’t get me wrong: I love to travel light and the f4 version is half the weight and bulk but the f2.8 can do things that the f4 can’t. There is a much better subject to background separation and combined with a 1.4 teleconverter you end up with a still fast 4\/280 lens. And that means traveling light because you have a portrait lens that also works as a tele lens if you need it.<\/p>\n

This year I will travel to the USA and I plan to bring only these two zoom lenses and the converter. I know it is not a super light combo especially compared to a M43 kit but you can’t really compare them. This combo will give absolute professional results without compromise. And the 6D with the 24-70 IS is not heavier than an APS-C DSLR plus a 18-200 lens. It is not as versatile but there is more wide angle and image quality is in a different league. It is traveling light – kind of.<\/p>\n

When I shot with tele lenses and if there is snow I prefer to change to manual. I set ISO to 400 to allow a motion stopping shutter speed of 1\/1000s. I shot wide open to 1. test the performance of the lens. 2. to separate the background.<\/p>\n

\"IMG_0943\"<\/a>Canon EOS 6D (255mm, f\/4, 1\/1000 sec, ISO400)
<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\"IMG_0944\"<\/a>Canon EOS 6D (255mm, f\/4, 1\/1000 sec, ISO400)
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Canon EOS 6D (245mm, f\/4, 1\/1000 sec, ISO400) Yes this is still a blog dedicated to little cameras with big sensors => littlebigtravelingcameras. And the Canon 6D is one. It’s not exactly little but little by full frame standards. And it features GPS. Finally one of my cameras is capable to record where I took… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[120,119,246,121],"class_list":["post-2389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vienna","tag-2-870-200-is-l-mkii","tag-canon-6d","tag-vienna","tag-zoo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2IL4R-Cx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebigtravelingcamera.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebigtravelingcamera.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebigtravelingcamera.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebigtravelingcamera.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebigtravelingcamera.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2389"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebigtravelingcamera.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2420,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebigtravelingcamera.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389\/revisions\/2420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebigtravelingcamera.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebigtravelingcamera.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebigtravelingcamera.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}