Germany coach under mounting pressure to recall Kuranyi
Germany coach Joachim Loew found himself under mounting pressure on Sunday to recall Schalke 04 striker Kevin Kuranyi after the Bundesliga top scorer’s form helped his team climb to the top of the table.
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Barcelona’s Iniesta to miss Arsenal match
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What Is True and What Is False Will Soon Be Clear
Bayern won the German Cup final against Schalke with a spectacular goal in extra time from Arjen Robben. But on Saturday, it lost its second successive game in the Bundesliga.
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Original article: Canon EOS 7D faces Brazilian field-test
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During early March I was lucky enough to be lent a Canon EOS 7D for a trip to Brazil courtesy of the lovely people at Canon Camera Buzz. Having already reviewed the 7D once in January I was keen to see what Canon’s latest semi-pro camera could do in the hands of a semi-amateur!
Just to make things clear — all the photos below were taken with the Canon EOS 7D with the kit lens, the EFS 15-85mm without any filters. No software manipulation has been carried out on the images — they are unadulterated output from the camera. Clicking on any image will open a full-resolution JPEG saved at maximum quality (they average about 12Mb).
The mountain is about 700m high and the air was very humid which accounts for the haziness of the images taken here. The full-frame viewfinder was a joy to use framing shots although I was a little disappointed by the pronounced vignetting when high f-stops were being used.
1. A view over Rio de Janeiro featuring the horse-racing track and islands in the distance. Taken from the rack-and-pinion railway carriage while in motion but the EFS lens stabilizer held everything steady. I took a number of shots of this view so that I could later clone the cables out of the photograph.
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Rio’s Cathedral is based on the design of a Mayan ‘pyramid’.
4. The Cathederal forecourt is quite a restricted area and the 15mm minimum focal length of the lens was required to get this shot.
5. The interior presented a challenge of contrasting lighting and dark walls. The walls are concrete and admit no light so the wall detail here is from the stained glass windows only. The EOS 7D manages to keep details in the dark walls without blowing out the stained glass windows or the roof-light.
6. Classic tourist shot of the cathedral reflected in the offices across the highway.
Light was fading as we took the cable car ride up Sugar-loaf mountain
7. Rio de Janeiro in late afternoon with the statue of Christ the Redeemer looking on with ‘God-finger’ from above. Exposure was set for the sky so the city looks darker than it really was (see later shots).
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10. As the evening sets in clouds roll down from the mountains to smother the city. This shot exemplifies the aerial perspective exaggerated by the humidity but which is even visible on sunny days.
11. From the top of the Sugar-loaf we can see the Urcu hill (which houses the midle cable-car station) and Rio de Janeiro disappearing under cloud in the background. Cloud is really getting thick now and the wind is whipping up — can’t be fun in those cable-cars!
12. At about 5.00 pm the wind is getting very strong and lightning is stabbing the Sugar-loaf in quite an alarming way! At this point the technicians tell us that it’s too dangerous to operate the cable cars and we are stuck up there until further notice! Still — this at least allowed me to get some night shots which I would not have got otherwise. The cable-cars were running again four hours later.
For the shots in the rain-forest lighting conditions varied and I decided to try out the automatic ISO selection on the EOS 7D. Now in all the articles I’ve read in magazines and online pundits have recommended not using this feature in most digital cameras because “the camera always chooses the maximum ISO available”. Well, I’m happy to say that on the Canon EOS 7D this is not the case.
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17. The lens stabilization held this shot for 0.3 seconds!
18. The only wildlife we saw was this rather tame raccoon which begged for food in the car park.
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20. Again we can see vignetting in the top corners but very little aberration in the details in the bottom left corner.
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Guardiola to face the music
MADRID: The Spanish football federation (RFEF) have started disciplinary proceedings against Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola after he accused officials of lying in a match report, the La Liga club said on Tuesday.
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