Here today with the 30D and the 100 to 300mm lens. Gonna try these out together...
Just the whole size of the camera versus the sides of the lens is
very nice combination. So I'm gonna try some photos out. See how it works.
Of course, this is a crop camera just like the M50. One of the challenges with this
camera is that the autofocus area... The points inside there are in a small bunch
for the most part. The edges are kind of out there, but still, you have to you adjust to that.
I'm really like in this combo of the size of the camera versus the size of the lens.
In that respect it's nice. This grip that I have it on right now is not great or
have my fingers trying to use this dial on the top. It kind of restricts things.
Especially when you're in full manual. You want to adjust the shutter speed
quite a bit, but it's alright.
After using this camera more I'm saying that it would
be nice to get some additional EF lenses. Especially wider ones. I can see that
benefit of if someone does go to the RF mount. They can use these lenses pretty
effectively. Of course, it's better just use what they're intended for, but EF
glass seems like one of the best ones to adapt.
This specific lens, I don't know
when it was manufactured, but pretty old. It's got the USM, but also just in
general it's been a few generations since this type of lens.. Type of version
of it. And I can understand why so many people switched to Canon in those days and
their big market share. Compared to other things I've used. It's just definitely
more technologically advanced than some. Of course, I started with Pentax so
giving them a little dig. But I do like their stuff. The minimum focus distance
of this lens is pretty long. So that makes it challenging to use in some
situations. It is pretty convenient to do the focus and recompose with cameras
like this, but you always introduce errors in your photos with the focal
point. Not to mention that other points besides
the center are not sensitive. They have some issues trying to focus. So that's
kind of irritating for older cameras like this. I like taking photos of the
Sun, but with standard DSLRs it feels a little dangerous for your eyes to do
stuff like that. So I hold the camera out from my face and just generally compose
it most of time. It works okay that way. But still, I kind of prefer letting the
mirrorless cameras take the risk than my eyes.
With older cameras like this older lenses like this there's no shake
reduction of course. So your technique is extremely important.
What I do with holding cameras like this whether it's the best or not, who knows...
You have this arm kind of like this towards the body. This one, of course, on the lens.
I'm going to check this spot out up here. Could be really nice. I know that when I
drive through there the trees look great. On the street.. path.. whatever you
want to call it. But it's hard to get a photo there unless you really walk into
that area. So we'll see what it looks like from this spot. I haven't been
probably over here in years. And we could see it's very nice!
This could be a really nice photo, but the challenge is getting the right composition.
A quick test with this lens and camera combination.
Outdoors as usual!
Just easy that way. Nice and enjoyable. Get some exercise.
Walk around... works out nicely.
Scott from Photography Banzai, thanks!