kc4mnp

Thank You and That is a great photo!

kc4mnp

I have a question someone mentioned i might need extension tubes , can someone fill me in as to what that might be? Also Thanks for all the replys to my question and it sounds to me like i need to get off my booty and take some pictures! OH also do you think it will damage my camera to haul it in the hard saddlebag on my 2016 harley Streetglide in an insulated camera bag?

kc4mnp

If I needed to post the above questions to a different spot , someone please let me know! Max Tharpe

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

Kenko or Canon extension tubes are both useful and compatible with your 75-300 lens to help for close-up / macro work. The Kenko tubes are prone to break, especially for longer lenses and / or heavier camera bodies. They're cheaper and not built as robust as the much more expensive and sturdy Canon versions. You just have to be more careful, but you don't currently have the larger / heavier equipment to expose this Kenko weakness.

As long as the camera is not jumbling around inside the saddlebag, riding on a motercycle won't be a problem. Having the camera inside a smaller, padded, tightly packed camera bag is the proper approach.

For the Biden image, the lens is the determining factor, that image is using one of Canon's premier 70-200 f/2.8L professional lenses. These lenses, especially the L-series, are built for long, everyday usage, 'long' as measured in decades or lifetimes. Your 75-300 can deliver just as sharp an image, but not in this low light where this image at 100mm was captured at f/3.2. Your 75-300 has a smaller variable aperture maximum that starts at f/4 at 75mm, and getting smaller as the lens zooms to 100mm. If the same view and distance was an outside daytime rally, you'd likely be in business with your current kit.

It does help to start new threads with new questions / topics, in case people have stopped 'watching' older threads.

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

Wonderful demonstration of the camera in action, circa 2007!

Nickaroo

It seems like a dream now, but when I was in it, I have to say that nothing could compare to those days. It was one heckuva ride. What made it so cool, looking back, was the fact that I was in the middle of History. I was slated to re-unite with them when they were supposed to come and do a couple of show in Detroit, but the passing of John Bonham ended that. I did write to Plant and told him how saddened I was over Bonham's passing. But in '95-'96 I was able to shoot 3 shows for the Page-Plant tour. Even though I had 2 kids, my Wife told me that I had to do it and I did.

Retired CPO Loc: Travel full time in an RV

Reuss Griffiths Loc: Ravenna, Ohio

Jumping in a little late here, I agree with most of the comments. I don't think great equipment is at the top of anyone's list of assets requiref to make great images. It may be on the list but not at the top. To quote Arthur Ashe "Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can" Success will follow.

Nickaroo

Very well put Reuss.I personally feel that people get too hung up on having the latest and the greatest on the equipment funk. I could display pics that came out of a 12mp camera and even a cheap film camera, Minolta 7000i, that would blow anything that the new mirrorless cameras or the high-end DSLRS of today. But, I do have an extensive array of Zeiss lenses and I do think that glass of that caliber helps an awful lot.

Wingpilot Loc: Wasilla. Ak

A better/newer camera may allow you to do more things than you can with your current camera, but ultimately, good images are the result of understanding photography—light, composition, etc., and know every aspect of your camera and how to use them. You produce the photograph, the camera merely records it as requested by the photographer.

Reuss Griffiths Loc: Ravenna, Ohio

Any equipment, camera or lens is only as good as you allow it to be. Good equipment can make good images better but well-rendered sanpshot is still a snapshot.

anotherview Loc: California

Ditto: "Your 'eye' ability to see a composition, is the single most important thing you may posses."

joer Loc: Colorado/Illinois

It is more dependent on your vision, skills with camera and processing.

anotherview Loc: California

Ditto:

Reuss Griffiths Loc: Ravenna, Ohio

Good photographers don't take pictures, they make images by using a lot of different skills and equipment but it all starts by seeing it in your minds eye first. And yes, all that being said, even a blind squirrel finds an acorn sometimes. So I guess that adds luck to the list as well. But even luck is not all serendipity either. I think I just waxed out all my philosophical.