DaveV - Digital Grin photo challenge #52
Matthew E. Kieren
Dave,
I just noticed that you won a photo challenge over at the Digital Grin
forum:
http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=23444
Nice work! :) Congratulations on a well deserved win.
I also noticed that we both have 2 of the same lenses. I only have two
lenses total at the present time. I had the Bigma and the Canon 50mm
f/1.8, but I sold both of them to fund the purchase of the following:
Canon 70-300mm IS (newer non-DO, not the 75-300), and the Canon 50mm
f/2.5 Compact Macro. Is your 70-300 the DO or the non-DO version? What
would you say are your favorite/most-used lenses? I haven't had a
chance to put my two new lenses to real use yet. I've only had them a
little over a week.
Andy Cosgrove
As for lenses, I've got 3:
- Tamron 17-35 f/2.8-4
- Tamron 28-75 f/2.8
- Canon 50 f/1.8
I love them all. I don't use the 50 too much, but my time seems to be
split pretty even between the other two. It's a difficult range to be
split between two lenses on a 1.6x sensor camera.
Someday, when I maybe move to a FF sensor camera, I think that 28-75
will be my definite favorite. It's a great lens, especially for the
price.
Guy Schmickle
my bird feeder!! Did you crop that at all or did it let you get that
close?
Andy Cosgrove
the pic there and explained a little bit how he got it.
Guy Schmickle
50 yards of one before it would bolt.
Matthew Kieren
I loved the Canon 50mm f/1.8. For it's price it simply can't be beat.
But, I decided to sell it and get the Canon 50mm f/2.5 Compact Macro
for a few reasons. The bokeh and contrast are a little better, it's
the sharpest of all four Canon 50mm lenses (1.8, 1.4, 2.5), has the
least distortion of all four, and it has macro as an added bonus. It's
only two drawbacks (for me anyway) that I've encountered are slightly
slower focusing, and the front extends a little bit when focusing
(although it doesn't rotate).
davev
I ended up winning that challenge by one vote. There were a lot of
great photos in it, I was lucky to win.
Lenses. Here's a sore spot with my wife. Here's the full list of what I
have right now.
Cameras
Fuji MX-700 - old 1.3 meg. no zoom, will probably give it to one of my
nephews or nieces.
Canon S1 IS - 3 meg, good little carry along camera.
Sony P10 - I could never get the hang of this camera. I think I jerk my
hand when I shoot cause it's so small. blurry pics.
Sony 717 - I'm keeping this one for the IR shots. 3 hours for battery
time per battery. Good camera, and it got me back into photography.
Canon D Reb 300 - Have had this for a year, and have taken 11000
pictures with it.
Canon D Reb 350 - I've had this for a month, shot about 900 pics.
Bought it used through FM.
Lenses.
2, 18-55 "kit" lenses. (comes with the Canon DSLR's)
Tamron 18-200 DI. A very good walk around lens. I don't think it would
be good for large prints though. (ugly bokeh)
Canon 28-135is. A good lens that I end up not using much.
Canon 50 F2.5 macro. Just got this one and haven't put it through the
ringer.
Canon 70-300is (non DO). My new favorite lens. light, pretty sharp wide
open, great I.S.
Sigma 80-400os (os is like I.S.) This lens focuses kind of slow, I have
to stop it down for sharp pictures, it weighs a lot. But it takes good
shots. If I were to sell this, the only lens I would to replace it
would be the canon 400 5.6
I also have a Quantaray 2X TC (sucks), and a Tamron 1.4X TC, the $80
one. It's OK.
Lenses that I had and sold or traded.
Canon 70-200 F4 and Canon 75-300is, sold to buy the 200 F2.8
Canon 200 F 2.8, traded to get the 70-300is (non DO). I traded this
with a gal in Minnesota, (I should tell her about this place)
She bought it from West Photo, and really wanted the 200 F2.8 instead.
I had the 200 F2.8, but I like zooms to much to keep the prime. So when
I saw her post, we ended up trading.
Well, that's me in a nutshell.
Sorry for the long post.(if you made it this far) :D