Ron Scheffler - Photographer - Hamilton Ontario Canada

The Mark IV has been out now for a couple months and received mine at the end of January. During that time there have been a number of online reviews that generally praise the camera, with the exception perhaps being Rob Galbraith’s opinion that the camera still falls short of where it should be.

I’ve added updates inline with my original review, and will continue to do so as I gain more experience with the camera. Here’s what I’ve found so far compared to the Mark III, which I’ve used since mid 2007: Review

And a few photos:

Hamilton Bulldogs vs. San Antonio Rampage AHL hockey. Shot from above with the 400 2.8 IS. I also tried the 400 at ice level and got some decent isolated action shots of various players, but the plexiglass definitely degraded image quality with such a long lens. The ice level images here are with the 135L and the 70-200 f/4L IS. Yeah, I wanted to see how viable it would be to use the f/4 lens, which I like a lot. I think it worked quite well. Had to bump ISO to 4000, but it held up well.

Elinchrom Ranger Quadra review: I posted some thoughts about the new Elinchrom portable strobe system after a few weeks of use. I originally had it posted here but decided to start up a separate reviews section.

Considering the two previous home losses, it was fair to wonder whether spectators attending the Hamilton Tiger-Cats Halloween game against the Saskatchewan Roughriders would be in for a trick or a treat.

Mother Nature was leaning more towards tricks with 60 km/h wind gusts that bent the poles holding the netting behind the east goalposts and had the south grandstand light standards swaying.

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The Winnipeg Blue Bombers were back in town looking to avenge their July 18th ‘Spygate’ loss. And avenge they did, spoiling Thanksgiving for the Tiger-Cats.

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Everyone knew this matchup against the Montreal Alouettes would be a difficult one for the Cats, but there was still hope for a win. Unfortunately it didn’t work out for the Cats this time.

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The night of AB3

Can’t say the Cats play was that impressive, but at least they were able to make enough plays to overcome what was looking to be a first half disaster in the making, and take advantage of key Calgary penalties in the second half to pull off another come from behind win at home. Arland Bruce III had two key touchdowns, the winner on a pass from Adam Tafralis when I think most people at the game were expecting the Cats to go for another short yardage quarterback keeper - the play Tafralis seems to be destined to repeat this year as the third string quarterback. Nice though to see him pull off a long pass to Bruce.

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