Picture of the Day

[Darakian]

It's just too new, and there hasn't been a firmware update yet. The devs need a firmware update so they have something to work from. Without the ability to extract firmware from the camera and no downloadable firmware update, they're pretty much stuck.

Re: throwing the background out of focus - you should be able to do it with your 35mm f/1.8. Open that aperture all the way (or just a stop down; my shot above was 50mm & f/2.2 using the nifty fifty), get close to your subject and have the background separated by a decent distance. The further away from your subject you are, the deeper your depth of field, so get right up on it. That plus a large aperture will reduce your DoF a lot, allowing the background to get thrown plenty out of focus.

The extra focal length helps too, so yours might not be thrown quite as far out of focus at 35mm, but with an f/1.8 lens, it should be plenty bokehrific.

EDIT - Guess I should post a picture too. ]

Aye, if/when the 70d gets ML it should be a power house. I've got my fingers crossed that it'll have a fast enough SD card bus to support at least 720p raw video. That plus the continous autofocus stuff should make for a damn good cinima camera.

@Alpha, as hoki said you just crank the aperture open to get the out of focus blur. Two things to keep in mind though. One you're focal plane is shallower the closer you are to something so getting in at you're minimum focusing distance gives you more bokeh as well. Two, you'll want to play with your highlight/shadow levels in post. For my pink flowers above I lowered the highlight levels a good bit to recover the color in the bokeh.