Few SPS with new camera
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Waters
"...in perfect isolation, here behind my wall."
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
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Pictures look great, I bet your eyeballing some new lenses, what lense would you be looking at for that camera?
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Waters
"...in perfect isolation, here behind my wall."
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
Reefing ain't easy$
No I dont, I'm behind you on my way into photographyThis 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
t5Nitro
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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!
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!
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Waters
"...in perfect isolation, here behind my wall."
Awesome....thanks for the recommendations. I will look into those
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Waters
"...in perfect isolation, here behind my wall."
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.No I dont, I'm behind you on my way into photography
Big E
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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.
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.
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t5Nitro
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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.
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
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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.
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
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
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Pictures look great!!
