New Camera Lens - Few Mess Around Test Shots.

[ukaskew]

The SLR game is a costly business looking into a better quality longer lens now!

Thats the thing, the initial 350D cost is do-able, its just all the lenses that you end up wanting to buy that usually cost the same again if not more.

Pretty happy with my setup though, I did have additional wide and telephoto lenses but found them surplus to requirements really. I found a good Macro lense is a sound investment, was shocked at the things I was getting out of a £300 camera with £40 lense bolted on...

http://chrisharrison.smugmug.com/photos/7022578-L.jpg

 

[fizzy_drink]

^^ CREEPY!

I'm itching all over now! :S

 

[Rich]

What a shot, is that a true Macro lens, rather than just a lens with a Macro Function?

Very cool mate....

Mine is being, clayed, polished and waxed tomorrow, done nearly 300 miles today theres a fair few flys on it lol

Bet your cleaning already

 

[ChrisE]

Thats sweet!!

 

[mas]

ukaskew - what camera/lense set up are you using?

the pictures do look very clear.

 

[Phill1978]

anyone else find it annoying that jpegs alomst wreck your online image clarity and detail ?

 

[ukaskew]

What a shot, is that a true Macro lens, rather than just a lens with a Macro Function?

Its a Nikon 6T Macro lens, cost me about £40 iirc on Ebay from Hong Kong. Just attaches to my camera via a £10 adaptor I already had for my filters (62mm). Its hard work but you get some incredible results from it.

 

[Rich]

Cheers Chris. A true Macro lens looks a must then, see this SLR games is silly!

Meggerman - When saved at high quality I dont find JPEG compression looks that bad, as long as you view them at the size there saved at, zooming in is a no no, but this as much down the the resizing as JPEG compression.

 

[ukaskew]

ukaskew - what camera/lense set up are you using?

the pictures do look very clear.

Just a bog-standard Panasonic FZ20 point and shoot, its been superseeded by the FZ30 now so you can get them for about £290. I'm just using it straight out of the box, no additional lenses or anything apart from the Nikon 6T for Macro stuff, I just use a 62mm adaptor and bolt filters on (usually just a UV to protect the original lense)

I love them, had an FZ10 before, then upgraded to an FZ20 (which was stolen in Toronto after I had taken several hundred pics, gutted), then I got a 300D, never got close to what I was achieving with the FZ20 (I'm very impatient, clearly!) so I went back to another FZ20. Thing I love most about it is the range, its got a 35mm equivalent of 35mm-432mm (12X Optical) so its very very versatile.

 

[mas]

ahhh cool, sounds like a good camera.... so you went from a slr back to digital?

 

[ukaskew]

ahhh cool, sounds like a good camera.... so you went from a slr back to digital?

Yep, I know you are supposed to do things the other way round but the Digital SLR just wasn't for me. I prefer the compact nature of my FZ20, goes everywhere with me and I hardly notice it, no lenses to carry round or anything.

I'm sure if I had put the effort and money in then an EOS would have been way beyond what I achieve now, but I'm lazy and relatively skint so I gave up!

 

[Rich]

Sounds a good bit of Kit Chris. One thing I notice is it always gives great colour.