Few SPS with new camera

Waters · Jan 1, 2023

Just playing around with a new camera....lots to learn lol.

Vested · Jan 1, 2023

Nice! What camera?

acesfull44 · Jan 1, 2023

Nice! What kind of set up are you using?

JGK17 · Jan 1, 2023

Looks good! I love that Millipora! :drooling-face:

Duffer · Jan 1, 2023

Look very nice

Waters · Jan 1, 2023

Vested said:
Nice! What camera?

acesfull44 said:
Nice! What kind of set up are you using?

It is a Canon EOS Rebel SL3 with the included kit lense. Also used a porthole viewer from Avast Marine which I think makes a huge difference.

thatmanMIKEson · Jan 1, 2023

Waters said:
It is a Canon EOS Rebel SL3 with the included kit lense. Also used a porthole viewer from Avast Marine which I think makes a huge difference.

Pictures look great, I bet your eyeballing some new lenses, what lense would you be looking at for that camera?

Waters · Jan 1, 2023

thatmanMIKEson said:
Pictures look great, I bet your eyeballing some new lenses, what lense would you be looking at for that camera?

This lens is a 18-55mm lense which covers most of what I will need it for I think. If I do get a macro lense, I am leaning towards a Tokina that I keep seeing getting high reviews. I am new to cameras though so I am still doing research :) Do you have any recommendations?

thatmanMIKEson · Jan 1, 2023

Waters said:
This lens is a 18-55mm lense which covers most of what I will need it for I think. If I do get a macro lense, I am leaning towards a Tokina that I keep seeing getting high reviews. I am new to cameras though so I am still doing research :) Do you have any recommendations?

No I dont, I'm behind you on my way into photography :)

t5Nitro · Jan 1, 2023

Awesome shots, @Waters .

Slight white balance adjustment to shed the blue and those are pretty spot on! Solid work for the 18-55 kit lens.

Canon makes an exceptional 100mm prime in either L or non-L series glass. For a fraction of the cost, I'd give the Tokina 100 mm 2.8 a try. Looks like it's currently on sale, too! Any fixed focal length lens will put that 18-55 to shame. It looks like you've already got the skills to take good photos, now let the lens boost you the next level!

Waters · Jan 1, 2023

t5Nitro said:
Awesome shots, @Waters .

Slight white balance adjustment to shed the blue and those are pretty spot on! Solid work for the 18-55 kit lens.

Canon makes an exceptional 100mm prime in either L or non-L series glass. For a fraction of the cost, I'd give the Tokina 100 mm 2.8 a try. Looks like it's currently on sale, too! Any fixed focal length lens will put that 18-55 to shame. It looks like you've already got the skills to take good photos, now let the lens boost you the next level!

Awesome....thanks for the recommendations. I will look into those :)

Waters · Jan 1, 2023

thatmanMIKEson said:
No I dont, I'm behind you on my way into photography :)

This is literally the first time using a DSLR so you can't be that far behind me lol. I had a Canon powershot a few years ago but it was basically a point and shoot with the ability to change a few things.

Big E · Jan 2, 2023

Looks good............you can adjust some of that blue mentioned by sliding more toward the red on your camera setting and or reducing blue. I had to do that with my Rebel. Check your manual, there's a red,green blue slider setting page.

For me it wasn't something I could fix with a White balance adjustment.

I'm going to disagree on the 100mm lens. Unless you plan on doing those artsy fartsy macro shots that don't look like corals close up it won't get used a lot.

I'm also suspect that any fixed lense will be better to our eyes if most of your pics will be posted on websites. That 18-55 lens has a good rep over many years.

t5Nitro · Jan 2, 2023

Big E has a lot of good reefing advice. Unfortunately this isn't one of those times. The fixed focal length lenses are far superior, and even non L glass (Canon) fixed lenses outperform their zoom L glass on many occasions. An exception might be their 70-200, which is just a tack sharp lens. The 100 mm macro can be used for more than macro images. It takes exceptional portraits, too, although you'll be standing quite far away if you're shooting on a crop body.

A 50 mm lens is more like 80 mm on your camera body. The 100 mm will be like shooting with a 160 mm lens.

Big E · Jan 2, 2023

t5Nitro said:
Big E has a lot of good reefing advice. Unfortunately this isn't one of those times. The fixed focal length lenses are far superior, and even non L glass (Canon) fixed lenses outperform their zoom L glass on many occasions. An exception might be their 70-200, which is just a tack sharp lens. The 100 mm macro can be used for more than macro images. It takes exceptional portraits, too, although you'll be standing quite far away if you're shooting on a crop body.

A 50 mm lens is more like 80 mm on your camera body. The 100 mm will be like shooting with a 160 mm lens.

I don't disagree with what you're saying at all but for my purposes, which is about 95% taking coral pics and posting on forums or sending to a friend, logging with dates for my journal, it makes no sense to buy fixed lenses. I'm not going to print or blow these pictures up for display.

I'm not a fan of extreme macro shots.........have no need for them............or any specific fixed lenses

Sites like this forum degrade the photos when I send from my computer. As is, I will use a site like Flicker which is better but still not as good as what I see on my PC.

I guess it all depends on what you plan to do with the camera.

nuxx · Jan 2, 2023

Looking great!

Last "nice" camera I had was a Nikon D90, just got a Mirrorless Nikon. It's amazing how much better the pictures are vs my Galaxy S22 Ultra lol