St3v3M wrote:
http://www.digitalcameraworld.com/2012/04/02/do-or-di-your-lens-markings-explained
Thanks for the link! This is exactly what I needed. It's like alphabetti-spaghetti out there!
Eustace2 wrote:
Don't pack up just yet. There are some folks here who need to wag more and bark less, but you can skip their posts and get a lot of good information. As several have noted, you are asking the right questions.
Here here! I was about to post something similar myself. I thought this was a reasonable question - and actually just posted something similar before seeing this one, only to do with lens designations.
I have only been here a couple of weeks - just made 'regular here' today! Most people are extremely helpful, but there are always a few who have to make a complaint about it. Why is that? If you don't like, or aren't interested in a post, go to the next one. There are a bunch of posts which don't interest me in the least, but they obviously interest *someone*.
These people are spoiling a great resource for a lot of people.
I have been taking photographs for close to 50 years, but my last slr was a Canon A1 which I used for most of the 80s. I am currently using a Powershot point-and-shoot, but desperately trying to convince myself I can justify spending my tax rebate on a refurbed DSLR. I am trying to learn these ins and outs, with sensor size, autofocus lenses and what have you.
Please, people, don't go scaring off the new users! If you think we are dumb or ignorant of basics, just smile your little arrogant smirk, and move along there.
Ok, I don't want to start a shooting war here; it's just a simple request...
Can anyone explain (or point me to a decent source) what all the letter designations are for lenses? I am more interested in Canon, but I wouldn't object to knowing more about the Nikon ones too.
I understand IS, and I guess the Nikon version is VR, but most of the others don't mean much to me.
Which ones are specifically for full-frame vs cropped sensors - and what is the difference? I can see that a lens designed for a crop sensor might limit a full-frame, but is there a problem going the other way? Can a full-frame lens be used on a crop camera?
Thanks in advance...
I really like the boat one. Great composition.
alaskan wrote:
I do color most of the time but here and there I convert to B&W.
You should do it more often. These are stunning!
sarge69 wrote:
My daughter had ' HAD ' a boyfriend once that talked very nasty to her. I had a little talk with him and relayed the story that if anyone ever hurt my little 'toe-head' I had had a dream where I'd tie him up in my basement and with my .380 put holes in his knees and elbows and then open the door for him to try to leave.
His face turned white, my wife actually shut her mouth and my daughter smiled. He left soon after that.
Sarge69
RC&SU
I was even more of a cliche than that. When my young step-daughter was going out with a boy for the first time, he came to pick her up. I was busy sharpening a rather large, *very* scary-looking knife. I just dropped into the conversation that I would be upset if anything happened to her. Nothing did.
MT Shooter wrote:
Nothing wrong with those high capacity SDXC cards. But consider this, do you really like putting so many images on one card? What if that card were to fail, or get damaged, or get lost? My method is to carry a number of 16GB and 32GB cards in a card wallet and change them out often to avoid such an issue.
I have a 64GB card in my little canon. I never take it out, so there is no danger of physical damage through accident. I upload my pictures to the PC after every shoot, so the 'eggs in one basket' scenario isn't an issue.
I also leave the photos on the card after uploading. This acts as an extra level of backup. It also prevents the (admittedly slight chance of) the memory 'cells' at the start of the card getting worn out or something. This way, I only use each memory location once.
I have several thousand 12MP photos on the card, and they take up less than 5% of the storage space, so that is not going to be an issue for some time.
If I were going on a big vacation, or covering something really important, I would probably invest in another card to carry as backup, just in case the current one should go bad at the wrong time.
I have read the replies on here, and I guess it is each to his own, but I cannot see the sense in chopping and changing cards un-necessarily. Inserting and removing the cards are far more likely to cause accidental damage than anything which would happen in the camera. Unless you drop the camera in the sea or something, and then, losing the photos on the card would probably be the least of your worries!
Wall-E wrote:
Smaller resolution jpeg files.
If all someone's shooting for is eBay, why make HUGE files to begin with, just to shrink them down to almost nothing.
And, there is some advantage in continuous shooting to the smaller file size. Smaller files are written on the card faster, and therefore the camera can (possibly) do more frames per second, and shoot more images before the buffer fills up.
I agree in principle. My current camera (a canon point-and-shoot) has 12 MP resolution in its L or highest setting. I never use anything less, even though I end up resizing everything on the PC. For one thing, if I need to zoom in closer than my piddley little lens allows, I have the option of cropping closer before resizing.
Also, I keep my originals separate, and do the resizing on a copy. So if I do find the need to get a bigger image at some point, my "negatives" are sitting there waiting for me.
They do take up some space, but computer storage is cheap these days.
Also, I have a lot of photos I scanned from negs and processed on the PC back when I had a 1024xsomething monitor. Now, I have a 27-inch HD monitor, and those pictures are too small. Since I started keeping my originals, that would not be an issue.
I like the rugby shots!
I don't have any experience to add to this discussion, but I just noticed that I made 'a regular here'! Go me!
wylie wrote:
I bought a Canon 5D Mark III so I could show up in large crowds with it around my neck, my chest inflated, and make miserable, arguing old men jealous of both my money and my ability to just go out and buy whatever I wanted to buy, simply because it made me feel good to spend money I'd earned honestly by working throughout my career! And if that's not reason enough to buy an expensive camera, I don't know what is. Other than watching people call each other names here at uglyhedgehog.com. Ha!!!
:thumbup:
If I had the money, I would probably do the same! I have read the reviews, and even downloaded the manual, and I like what I see very much. However, unless a rich (and unknown) relative dies and leaves me a lot of money, I don't see it happening any time soon... :-(
cygone wrote:
Depends on one's idea of what "a major fortune" is.
Ok, granted. I drive a school bus, so anything in the thousands counts as a major fortune to me!
The point was, switching brands - whether mac/pc or canon/nikon - is a major decision for most of us. Try asking a ford driver to switch to chevy!
cygone wrote:
Stop it. That's defeatist. Besides MACs are very intuitive. I believe PCs are good for people who like to tinker. MACs work right out of the box and you're ready to roll.
It's hardly defeatist, when you have an accumulated 'library' of software packages installed. I use finale, Sonar X2, Photoshop - for just those 3 alone it would cost me way over $1000 to replace them with Mac versions. Then there are dozens of other applications I have used for the past 20 or more years.
It's like Canon/Nikon. They both have excellent equipment, but once you have a significant investment in lenses and stuff from one of them, it would cost a major fortune to jump ship and change to the other.
Great shots, especially 3 and 8!
Crwiwy wrote:
Age old answer - try the cameras and decide what suits you. :thumbup:
That would be nice, but we don't all have easy access to a decent shop which stocks them. The only place in my area where I can handle *any* camera is Wallmart, and they don't have much of a range.
I have been thinking/dreaming/planning/hoping to get back into the slr world soon, and have been thinking along the same lines as this poster. Also, I would like to check out decent tripods, camera bags, etc., before spending a heap of cash on them.
The nearest decent shop I have found online is close to 100 miles away, unless I want to drive 80 miles to DC and face the hassles of the metro system. I would give a couple of fingers for an afternoon browsing in somewhere like B&H!