MWGL Photography thread

[parrotheada1a]

f you want a pocket camera, get a point and shoot with some DSLR like functions or use your phone. If you really want to take pictures, bring a big camera with a good sensor and some good lenses. I'd love it if my 5d fit in my pocket with a 28-300 L on it, but it doesn't. The trade off is that it has an amazing full frame sensor that can do almost anything.

I pretty much agree with all of this, simply because I have been on that road. My new T6i isn't a full frame piece, but it will certainly do what I want it to do. The Nikon P7700 I used for a few years had only a couple stupid little problems with it that turned out to be deal breakers for a new Nikon. First off was the short proprietary usb cable. It is smaller than a regular mini usb, so you have to direct order a new one from Nikon if it gets lost or broken. 25 bones + shipping to get a new one. The second item turned out to be far more expensive.... batteries. I had two batteries for it... and then in late 2012 Nikon updated the firmware on the camera. Short story is that the update made it so the camera would not work with 3rd party batteries... or old Nikon batteries for that matter. More fuss, bother and expense. That being said, it took some fantastic pics. Here's one I took a few years ago. Not exactly tack sharp, that's because of the heat blur coming off the tracks and locomotive carbody.

DSCN1041SMENH2 by paladina1a, on Flickr

 

[Johnny N.]

Glad I stumbled onto this thread today. Just the other day I decided to dig the camera out and get out and learn it like I always wanted to. Our first dslr is a Nikon D40 which served us very well. When we got it my wife took it over and shot a lot of my daughter's soccer life. Always ticked me off that she shot all auto mode and took fantastic shots. She has a great eye for composition apparently.

I don't. I have to work at it more but I love the idea of using aperture/shutter speed/iso etc. to create the image but never took the time to explore with it. We only have kit lenses at this point but I'm actually buying a 50mm 1.8 used today and looking for an 18-200 or something like that to use as an all-arounder. I do a lot of fishing and I figure that type of range would serve me well. Probably good for travel as well. In fact, the guy I'm buying the 50 from had an 18-200 but sold it before I saw his ad. This is all assuming that I stick with it and can actually take a decent picture. If so, I'll upgrade the body too. Been geeking out on youtube looking at what to get next. Will probably be Nikon since we have two in the family so we can share lenses. Probably going to be in the 5xxx series because I can't justify spending too much but wouldn't mind looking into something a little more advanced.

 

[jbj]

My fave lens from my DSLR is a 70-100

It's fantastic for pretty much everything except landscapes. It's particularly great for doing people juxtaposed against a large background. Not sure of the science but it's the way it focusses at a given length.

 

[mongooz]

Glad I stumbled onto this thread today. Just the other day I decided to dig the camera out and get out and learn it like I always wanted to. Our first dslr is a Nikon D40 which served us very well. When we got it my wife took it over and shot a lot of my daughter's soccer life. Always ticked me off that she shot all auto mode and took fantastic shots. She has a great eye for composition apparently.

I don't. I have to work at it more but I love the idea of using aperture/shutter speed/iso etc. to create the image but never took the time to explore with it. We only have kit lenses at this point but I'm actually buying a 50mm 1.8 used today and looking for an 18-200 or something like that to use as an all-arounder. I do a lot of fishing and I figure that type of range would serve me well. Probably good for travel as well. In fact, the guy I'm buying the 50 from had an 18-200 but sold it before I saw his ad. This is all assuming that I stick with it and can actually take a decent picture. If so, I'll upgrade the body too. Been geeking out on youtube looking at what to get next. Will probably be Nikon since we have two in the family so we can share lenses. Probably going to be in the 5xxx series because I can't justify spending too much but wouldn't mind looking into something a little more advanced.

my favorite walk around lens is a Sigma 18-250. you just can't get a better overall lens. very good quality, pretty quick autofocus, only down side is it only goes down to f3.5.
https://www.amazon.com/Sigma-18-250...=1517846151&sr=8-2&keywords=sigma+18-250+lens

 

[Johnny N.]

my favorite walk around lens is a Sigma 18-250. you just can't get a better overall lens. very good quality, pretty quick autofocus, only down side is it only goes down to f3.5.
https://www.amazon.com/Sigma-18-250...=1517846151&sr=8-2&keywords=sigma+18-250+lens

I've been looking at all of those in the "super-zoom" category and it's pretty much across the board that they are limited to 3.5 but this would be really an outside lens so typically plenty of light. I can't spend the money for the long reach lenses at 2.8. Would love to but not unless I start taking some seriously good pictures. I'll check out that Sigma. I've seen a lot of love for the new Tamron offerings lately too.

 

[mongooz]

I've been looking at all of those in the "super-zoom" category and it's pretty much across the board that they are limited to 3.5 but this would be really an outside lens so typically plenty of light. I can't spend the money for the long reach lenses at 2.8. Would love to but not unless I start taking some seriously good pictures. I'll check out that Sigma. I've seen a lot of love for the new Tamron offerings lately too.

one of the things i like about the Sigma is that it has a lens lock button. so the lens isn't constantly sliding out to 250 while your walking around with it slung over your shoulder. the other slight downside is that it uses 62mm filters. not that it's a terrible thing, but most kit lenses aren't that large a diameter, so you'd have to buy some new filters. for me, that's a minimum of 2: clear UV/protection filter, and a circular polarizing filter.

 

[shoeless]

Back from 10 days in Hawaii. I'm ready to go back. Here are some simple cell phone pics.

 

[dmn23]

 

[Tiltsta]

For my main walking around lens I have a Canon L series 24-105. On a full frame body this is a nice balance of wide and zoom. If I can take ONE lens and I have no idea what I will need I take the Canon 28-300 L F3.5-5.6 IS/USM. It covers a wide focal length with really great optics, and 28 on a full frame is pretty wide.

 

[mongooz]

For my main walking around lens I have a Canon L series 24-105. If I can take ONE lens and I have no idea what I will need I take the Canon 28-300 L F3.5-5.6 IS/USM. It covers a wide focal length with really great optics.

oh look, another cannon 'L' snob.

 

[Tiltsta]

oh look, another cannon 'L' snob.

lol. Nah, I have a lot of Sigma lenses too, and lots of Canon's lower end stuff. I only have two L series lenses, but they happen to be the ones I grab the most, as they are really amazing lenses. My sigma stuff tends to be more specialty type lenses, like fast primes, big zooms, and wide angles. Sigma makes great stuff.

 

[parrotheada1a]

I still have my Olympus OM10 film camera that I bought around 1980 or so. My walking around lens for that was a Tamron 80-210 zoom. That piece of glass went everywhere. The other lens I used most often was a Soligor 28-80 zoom + macro. The macro mode on that is damned incredible. I took a group of photos for a guy who made structures for model train layouts & dioramas. I remember one shot we took at f/22 or so about 6 inches from the corner of the structure. The building was a typical New England meeting house/church. Wish I still had a copy of the photo.

 

[OGG]

Obi Wan using The Force!

 

[VoidTerraFirma]

Took this one today.

 

[frunobulax]

Taken this morning with the iPad

 

[Tiltsta]

 

[Tiltsta]

Pic is an iPhone photo of a grape vine in my yard. The snow and grapes think it is winter, the moss doesn’t seem to care. By the time I got my real camera charged, the snow melted and ruined the pic.

 

[parrotheada1a]

So I finally made it trackside today with the T6i.... it was 76F in Haverhill MA about 4:30 PM....sheez... tomorrow they are predicting we will be waking up in the 30's.
These shots I loaded up at 50% of the original, you can see the heat blur coming off the locomotives. This sucker was crawling along, no more than 10 mph. There's a river bridge behind it that most of the train was crossing, and the railroad is repairing it.

smENHIMG_0028 by paladina1a, on Flickr

smENHIMG_0032 by paladina1a, on Flickr

 

[Johnny N.]

Trains are just cool to start with but those are great shots.

 

[xStonr]

oh look, another cannon 'L' snob.

My 2 main lens are the 24-105L and 70-200 2.8 L. If I need more focal range, I have the Canon 2x EF Extender.