Canon T2i

notwilight

Just got my new camera body after being inspired by another thread. Out of the box, without opening the directions, just setting the white balance and then shooting aperature preferred at about 8, I got these results. I think it's a worthwhile upgrade to my 4 yr old canon DSLR which I will now have available for hand held shots of kids and other things. Lots of megapixels allows amazing enlarging.

notwilight

Here is the thread that insprired me.

acloco

Very nice. Which lense are you using?

notwilight

Sorry, forgot to mention. These are with the canon 100mm USM macro. The auto focus seems to be right on. I may be able to do a lot of shooting with autofocus on this camera. I never used it on the old camera. The viewfinder seems much clearer for focusing too. I have a 150mm macro that should be good for shooting die details with this sensor. --Jerry

MilkmanDan

That's pretty good considering you just opened the box. What's your lighting setup?

rmpsrpms

Very nice. Your lighting on the ASE is superb. What are you using and how do you have it set up?

Kove

I use a similar setup, the 100mm Macro USM lens with a Canon T1i (one generation back) camera for coin photography. I like the 1.6x "magnification" that comes with the smaller detector in these cameras, as opposed to the full-frame DSLR I use for landscape photography.

The one suggestion I will make to you based on my usage of this setup is to connect your camera to your computer using the USB cable, and control all of your settings using the free Canon EOS utility that came with your camera. This includes remotely triggering the shutter as well as using the SW to remotely fine-tune your focus. While the auto-focus is surprisingly good, it will be even crisper if you use the remote SW to focus down to a gnat's a**.

lcoopie

pretty good,
do you think the new body makes a difference using the same lens?

notwilight

I use 2 ott lites and a basic copy stand. Yes, the new body seems to take better pictures. I upgraded because I thought the improvements in metering and sensor technology over the 4 yrs was probably appreciable and now that I have it, I think I made the right call. I took some pics with the old camera planning to do a side by side but then had something come up so I just had time to post a few new pics. Bottom line, I'm impressed. See the link to the thread in the second post for what the camera can do when you take time to set up a perfect pic.

The closeup crops were added because the old camera didn't have enough megapixels to provide that much detail with a 100 mm lens.


--Jerry

ibex66

Can you post a picture of your setup.

dragon

Those are some very nice pics! I just bought my wife the new Nikon P500 which has 36X zoom and her first shots didn't look anywhere near that good.

57loaded

most excellent!