40D in use - wedding shots from Saturday

[ChrisPerry]

My first night out with the 40D was this past Saturday. Here are a sampling of shots.

Focus - TONS better than the 30D -nearly as good / fast as a 1D.
Tonal quality/ IQ - big step up. Not sure I'd say it's as good as a Mk3 or 5D, but it's damn close.
Highlight priority is awesome!

RAW, converted in DPP - faithful pic style, +1 contrast, +1 saturation, +1 color tone, 3 sharpness.
Opened in CS3 - USM 200%, .3, 3.
Resized as you see here.
USM 30, .7, 3
Save for web.
NO curves, no other adjustments at all - nothing.
Info per pic added as needed:

70-200 2.8 IS ISO 100 F2.8@ 70mm, Av mode
http://i.pbase.com/o6/77/624677/1/85...tJohnston_.jpg

85 1.8 at F2, ISO 800 1/1000, Av mode
I did a bit of blur on her cheek/chin/forehead.
http://i.pbase.com/o6/77/624677/1/85...tJohnston_.jpg


17-55 2.8 IS lens @ 55mm, F4.5 1/60 at ISO 800
http://i.pbase.com/o6/77/624677/1/85...tJohnston_.jpg

Same people, same pose, outside now
70-200 2.8 IS @ 160mm, F4 1/800 at ISO 100
http://i.pbase.com/o6/77/624677/1/85...tJohnston_.jpg

And lastly a high-ISO to show the worst of the worst this machine can do.
I didn't do the initial USM on this, and there is NO noise reduction, not even in DPP. There was NO flash for this image.
17-55 2.8 IS @ 17mm, F 2.8 1/40 at ISO 3200 Tv mode
(Yes I work in DARK places )

http://i.pbase.com/o6/77/624677/1/85...tJohnston_.jpg

[Dennis_Vied]

Chris, I'm getting the FORBIDDEN message when I try to access the images.

[KevinStecyk]

Originally Posted by Dennis_Vied

Chris, I'm getting the FORBIDDEN message when I try to access the images.

They all worked for me earlier without issue. And I just tried an image again to see if that was still the case and it is. I just clicked on the link. Nothing more.

Just passing this information along.

[Curtis Cunningham]

I get the forbidden message as well.

Curtis

[Steve_Brenner]

I too got the "Forbidden" message when I tried. I'm on a Mac. Could that somehow be a problem?
Steve Brenner

[Dennis_Vied]

Very interesting. I can save them and look at them, but can't view them in the browser. Must be a browser function problem. I'm on WinXP with IE, so obviously it's not a platform related problem. I tried disabling my Firewall temporarily, which didn't help, so I'm not sure that it's a anti-virus related problem. Ordinarily, I would say it's probably because I'm not logged onto PBase, and that it's requiring membership in order to view the images, but I'm not sure that's it.

[MikeA]

You don't have permission to access /o6/77....

I can't save them or view them. Not a pbase member though. Maybe those that can view them have pbase accounts or something?

Mike.