New toy! (Great for shooting)

Last night, I bought myself a Canon EOS Rebel Xs. It takes 10.1 MP photos, 3 per second (up to 514 before it has to process anything)

I have a 35mm Rebel, and had some lenses for that (the 200mm in the picture is one of them) So I got a good start on this one. Time for a flash, maybe some more lenses, and fun, fun, fun!

 

Nice camera, Pax. Look like you can take some great pix with that. I love taking pix it's just uploading is a pain LOL

 

Nice! I have an Eos Rebel XS that wifey bought me for Xmas about 12 years ago and it is still as impressive as the day I got it.
I haven't made the leap to digital SLR yet, but I'm starting to get the itch.

 

Nice camera Pax! Have fun.

 

Dollar for dollar, I can remember getting my 1st SLR and then getting an auto winder, flash and several different lenses and filters.
So definitely, $$$ can be spent on the hobby.

 

NICE, Pax :drool Now, I expect to see some Major Pix from that one!

 

I used to love shooting with my friends $10K Hassleblad System... :-D Many hobbies seem to turn into money pits...

 

LOL, tell me about it! Had a Yashica SLR with several lenses, bought all the stuff needed for my own darkroom including an enlarger and got it all ripped off!:cry Darkroom work is the only other thing besides computers that can keep me up all night before I even realize it. :eek Meh, the end of a lovely era.

 

LOL, had a darkroom setup at my old home. Kinda miss the smell of Fixer in the morning. Well, not really. But damn I spent some time making those prints. Really neat to see them develop.

 

Oh, that is a niiiice camera! You need to go out and take pictures with it! Make an album like Laura has, and give us a link.

 

Yup, nice cam, Pax. Look forward to seeing some pics. I used to develop my own films/photos when I was young. Small wonder I became a Chemist LOL.

 

Just noticed this post a buddy has the same one and it is a fantastic piece, he says he likes it more and more as he plays with it!

Phil

 

When I was in High School (many, many, moons ago), I took Photographic Technology in Vo-tech.
My 1st 35mm was a Fujica ST705. Inexpensive camera, but by the time I got the extras, I jacked that little hobby up considerably.
I turned my bedroom closet into a darkroom.
I had a small cabinet, black and white enlarger and a few shelves that I used for the fixer and I believe it was called Photoflo?

I did everything in a 3' X 3' closet and if I were to sneeze, my ears probably would've popped. :-D

 

Hey, glad this thread grew some legs. Maybe it'll end up being another photography thread, or one could be started. Laura, I don't know what you mean by head, and it bothers me a little bit LOL. I like to shoot live action. I don't really care what it is. I just like to be able to capture it, and with the Rebel, I've been telling people "It can't be a bad picture, this camera is incapable of such a thing." haha

I have 3 lenses, and a mediocre tripod that I don't think I'd trust the camera with. my lenses go up yo 200mm, and I have a 3x magnification lens to put on them, which I don't really like a whole lot.

My cousin has the same camera, and I also have the same body, that takes 35mm film, which I too, bought about 12 years ago. The lenses I bought for it, are the ones I use now. It's nice that they fit, and the major reason that I'm not a Nikon person right now. I was looking long and hard at the D3000, but didn't want to lose the money I had in lenses. I also had a flash, but recently gave it to my cousin. Though, it was only worth about $35. I have my eye on a flash that mounts via the tripod screw, for around $175 and maybe another lens. the cousin has a 300mm, and I don't like to be behind the times. lol

I love the camera though, 700 pictures this weekend, and the battery indicator didn't fade at all.

Also, that reminds me. I am looking at a grip for the camera, it too, attaches to the tripod screw, and replaces the one battery with 2, also gives you a shutter button on the right side of the camera when you would turn it 90 degrees to the left, to take a "portrait" oriented photo.

I'll put some pictures up sometime, but for now, I'm playing catch up at the office.

 

Invest in a good tripod Pax, especially for the bigger lens. A good sturdy one will last forever.

I am looking at some optics myself, but not exactly the same thing. Nikon does make some nice rifle scopes.... :-D

 

Wow, you took that with a 300mm Laura? Great picture. I could never get a shot of the moon I liked. Might break out the old Pentax K1000 and see how many lens I kept. :-D

And Laura, is that 35mm or some of the larger format stuff?

 

LOL, with the K1000 my only options are manual. :-D I have some 2X magnifying things, and at least a 200mm lens. But you lose a lot of light when you use the 2X things. Will have to get it all out and see what I have.

 

They kill the light! Lol. I have an inexpensive Nikon Digital camera, but it is not up to 200mm duty. :major

 

My cousin and I have been looking around, and there are places you can rent lenses. even the HUGE $10,000 lenses, for a pretty reasonable clip (especially if you had a group of people going somewhere, and pitching in for the ability to take phenomenal pictures.)

On a side note (since you posted the picture of the moon) I have a decent shot of the blood moon from my old Sony DSC-F717 that I cropped too far in, and pixelated it.. I kick myself for that, but it looks alright from a distance. Anyhow, my cousin posts this lens from Overstock.com on my Facebook page the other day, and it's a manual focus 2600mm lense for under $300 (obviously it's not a Canon lens). So I go and read the reviews on it. Some people where mildly happy, and for the most part you had the whole gamut of reviews, from love to hate. One of them will stick in my head forever, it said something like "I bought this 2600mm lens because I love astronomy, and thought it would let me take better pictures of the night sky. My only problem is that I can not fit the whole moon in the frame." LOL

I might buy something like that if I had a nice 300mm, and some money to not be happy with spending. That way, if I ended up liking it, even better.

Here are some pictures I've taken with my SLR since I got it.

Link 1

Link 2

But they're nothing spectacular, and on Facebook, so reduced in size.

 

I recently got myself a Nikon D3000, still a noob when it comes to photography but getting their slowly! Want to get myself a zoom lens too, perhaps a 200mm??

 

http://cdn2.overstock.com/images/products/L12404203.jpg

That's one of the 1300mm lenses that Overstock has on their site. It's $233.49 and manual focus. I just don't think it would be good for anything that was moving, though they say it's good for sporting events. I suppose you could use it if you wanted to count the stitches on a Home Run ball and had your seats behind home plate.

Still, if I ever have a little money to throw around, I might get something like this, just to pull out of my arsenal every once in a while.

Also, it comes with a 2x magnifier, making it 2600mm

Overstock Link

 

You will defiantly want a tripod for that lens Pax! :-D

 

Hi Pax, That is a NICE lens, for sure...Yup, a Tripod is a must, and make sure it sets on a level area. You might want to take a pic of a bird or deer in the field sometime, you just never know.

An " arsenal " to me, is my guns and ammo! roflmao :-D Best advice I can give you, is to use it, and enjoy it Don't buy it, and let it set in a box.

 

Yeah, but a variable zoom lens on a gun is a scope. :-D

Oh and Pax, for really high MM lens like that and sports, you usually would focus and setup the camera where you think the shot will be. And wait.