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At The Back => The Dressing Room => Topic started by: Roobubba on September 06, 2010, 11:52:47 AM
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So I just bought myself a digital SLR because I was getting a bit held back on some specific shots with my point and shoot. Here's the result of my first playing (I'm waiting for a 15-85mm IS USM lens to be delivered, so in the mean time have a 50mm f/1.8 prime lens (cheap and cheerful 'plastic fantastic'). The camera is a canon 550D (so enthusiast end of entry level).
Really getting into photography now, although I've still sooooo much to learn (but hey everything is fun at a similar stage, right?!).
Thought I'd share these with you good folks :)
Roo
http://picasaweb.google.com/roobubba/IsaacSNewCanonEOS550D50mmF18?authkey=Gv1sRgCNSw2MGMm4u8NQ&feat=directlink
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Nice capture on the first dragonfly!
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The link's blocked on my work PC - I'll have a look at home... (looking forward to those tasteful telecaster pictures :lol:)
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Thanks, shobet!
Cheeky monkey, Andy ;)
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Looking good Roo. I'm a big fan of a good 50 mm prime lens. I'm using an old Olympus OM-10 SLR right now and loving trawling about taking snaps. Need a cheap way to transfer my prints to the computer though.
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Nice capture on the first dragonfly!
+1 that's a really good shot :)
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Nice job. The great thing about an SLR is that you can get creative -I keep trying to blag one of my Brother's old ones but so far to no avail. I agree that the shot with the dragon fly is impressive.
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...so in the mean time have a 50mm f/1.8 prime lens (cheap and cheerful 'plastic fantastic'). The camera is a canon 550D (so enthusiast end of entry level).
If you still want a 50mm prime, just a better one, the f1.4 is one of the best lenses Canon make and they're not too pricey, especially second hand. We have a lot of Canon lenses at work for shooting reference photos on set and I did an exhaustive test of all the lenses we have to work out which was the sharpest with least distortion and, unsurprisingly, the fancy telephoto came out best but the 50mm f1.8 was a very close second.
The lens I'd avoid is the 28mm F1.8 which I bought for the only Canon I've ever personally owned. It's a rotten piece of glass and is so soft wide open that it's pretty much unusable in low light (which was precisely the reason I bought the damn thing in the first place).
If you're getting the 15-85 zoom, a low light prime lens might be handy to have as the zoom only goes to f3.5 at its shortest focal length which gets tricky in dimmer lighting conditions.
Hope you get to love photography as much as Telecasters drop-tuned machines of war.
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...so in the mean time have a 50mm f/1.8 prime lens (cheap and cheerful 'plastic fantastic'). The camera is a canon 550D (so enthusiast end of entry level).
If you still want a 50mm prime, just a better one, the f1.4 is one of the best lenses Canon make and they're not too pricey, especially second hand. We have a lot of Canon lenses at work for shooting reference photos on set and I did an exhaustive test of all the lenses we have to work out which was the sharpest with least distortion and, unsurprisingly, the fancy telephoto came out best but the 50mm f1.8 was a very close second.
The lens I'd avoid is the 28mm F1.8 which I bought for the only Canon I've ever personally owned. It's a rotten piece of glass and is so soft wide open that it's pretty much unusable in low light (which was precisely the reason I bought the damn thing in the first place).
If you're getting the 15-85 zoom, a low light prime lens might be handy to have as the zoom only goes to f3.5 at its shortest focal length which gets tricky in dimmer lighting conditions.
Hope you get to love photography as much as Telecasters drop-tuned machines of war.
Thanks for the tips!
I certainly hope I don't come to find photography anything like Teles though ;)
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What about a future career as a pornographer?
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What about a future career as a pornographer?
As long as it's dragonfly or barbecue porn, yeah I suppose so!
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Cool! (Just managed to look at them).
I'm not a big picture-taker, but I'm impressed with the dragonfly as well, and the raindrops on black stuff :D
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Nice :) As others have said, I like the dragonfly ones.
I'm starting to get back into photography now, got a 7D at work but fancy something more compact for carrying around with me - Panasonic GF1 is catching my interest :)