Photo Gallery - Canon 300D first experiments

New toy - 300D first photos

I got my new camera on Saturday (6th Dec), this is my first digital. It is awesome, absolutely superb value for money. I only have the 18-55mm kit lens and an "economical" Sigma 70-300 APO II but you can have a lot of fun with these. Definitely not as good optically as expensive lenses or primes, and construction is a bit dodgy, but they can take surprisingly good photos. They both take impressive macros for zooms.

Linda, Gina, Kevin, Andrew, Sonia, Jose, Tim, Jacqui, Mick, Stella et al - READ THIS! >>>> Apart from the moon, these are the SMALL images. TO SEE THE REAL IMAGES, CLICK ON THE EACH OF THE IMAGES ON THIS PAGE. My intention originally was to show the "out of camera" images which you will see are pretty amazingly detailed. (Be prepared to do some scrolling). I reckon you might be interested in the watch, the knife, the tomato stem,and Little Creatures. Oh yeh, and the Xmas tree.

The picnic photos (yesterday's experiment) are HERE.

Moon shot on Sunday. Taken with the sigma 70-300 at 300mm (equivalent therefore to 480mm in 35mm terms), exposure 1/200th at f7. The detail, particularly the craters in '3d' at the bottom right and the mountains top right just amazed me for this very basic, non-astronomical, comparatively cheap equipment. This lens is not too shabby at 300mm, although it seems not as good at the 70mm end.
A macro shot using the kit lens sold with the camera, 18-55mm. Taken at f11, so not much depth of field. But look at the fullsize image and I think you will be impressed with the beautiful 'silkiness' that is the trademark of these Canon digitals. And the sharpness. You can see every scratch, bump and out of place molecule - plenty of detail in the focussed areas. Click on the image for the full-size file, about 500KB.	Another macro shot using the kit lens. A look at the full size image shows beautiful exposure (auto), over saturated colour (set to extra saturation by mistake, so red looks a bit unnatural), smooth on the handle and the metal. Highlight reflections are handled well too. I discovered that my knife is disgustingly dirty, a fact I didn't know till now. The background IS blotchy, it is not camera noise.
Some more macros here. Again these are not meant to be technically or artistically meritorious. The images are compressed more than out of camera (about 500K each) but otherwise as the camera did it. Taken with the sigma lens at 200mm. I think the tomato plant hairs (first image) and the furtherest of the 3 tomato flowers (the only one in focus in this shot) show that at 200mm this lens has a very respectable resolution. Not to mention the camera. Did I mention the camera? I also think the red flower might be showing the limitations of sRGB but I don't have colour management sorted yet to allow me to use adobeRGB.
This is to show the "grain" at high speed. Taken at ISO800, shows about as much sky grain as I used to get from my scanned ISO100 negs (using Nikon 2700ppi scanner which did exagerate grain). At low speed setting (ISO100) on this camera I can't see grain all. This is one area where the 300D beats film. Taken at dusk, handheld(!) 1/800th @ f9, ISO-800. Sigma lens @300mm.
To show the high-saturation setting. This taken with the saturation set to +2. (Normal Parameter 1 setting is saturation +1, and Parameter 2 has saturation of 0). High saturation still gives very natural colours. The pattern is due to taking the shot through a chain wire fence. Sigma lens @ 300mm (again).	Now I admit that I had to take two shots to make this work, because the moon was way brighter than the tree and overexposed. But the moon was in this location, and the time and place were the same for both shots, so only the exposure was changed before substituting the correctly exposed moon over the overexposed one. The tree decorations and lights look beautiful in the full size image. Worth a look I think - the lens produces a very attractive flare from point light sources. The tree is outside parliament house (Canberra). Taken with sigma @ 70mm, 0.6sec @f6.3, ISO100.
Delicious if you click to see crop of full size image. Shows lens/filter reflections and an unexplained streak near top...
Parliament house at dusk. This is a panorama of two shots, not very subtly joined. Once again the sky grain is very low, the handling of the bright lights pretty good. Some purple fringing in the bright lights top right, but this is fairly extreme circumstances. Kit lens @a8mm, f5@1.6, ISO100. Full size image is compressed to 370KB.

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