Need a Camera

[Tanked_Life]

Hey Everyone!

I am looking to buy a camera soon so i can capture the great colors of my favia and add to my thread! Any ideas on what to buy around the $200 range that can get pics of red and yellows in a biocube

 

[Reefing Madness]

 

[jsker]

Canon EOS70D We purchased the camera a little over a year ago at Costco in a packaged deal. The purchase was about $1400 but wow the picture are great. I have only scratch the surface of the potential of the camera, but when taking shots of the tank I use the SCN setting with no flash and use the multi frame night mode

 

[Tanked_Life]

Wow these pictures are very nice and I have heard great things about the 70D how are you shots under actinic lighting when playing around with white balance?

 

[eyesinthedrk]

So far I use an iPhone 5 with the procamera app. I'll also use an orange gel filter if my lights are in sunrise or sunset mode

I've added two examples of a zoa with reds and yellows. The first under just blue LEDs and the second just after the whites came on.

 

[Tanked_Life]

Do you have an underwater case? And what are the orange gels? I cannot capture reds in actinic lighting on any of my cameras iphone includex

 

[eyesinthedrk]

No on the underwater case. The app improves the iPhone's zoom from 3x to 6x and gives you manual control over focus, exposure, and white balance. A lot more but those are the ones that really matter.

 

[jsker]

Wow these pictures are very nice and I have heard great things about the 70D how are you shots under actinic lighting when playing around with white balance?

Those shots are at 50% white, 100% blue LED, I was using the flash and I would not get the true color in the Green boxed A+ setting. When I switched to the SCN with the night setting with all of the lights out in the room I get the clearest picture. Unlike a phone picture the pictures taken on a camera such as a canon 70D have a bunch more pixels and can be cropped with a greater detail. I asked another member and I would have to go back and do some research in my posts what lens they were using. It was different from the lens's I bought my camera in my package deal, and if I remember the lens had more zoom and little bit more of a range of detail. Dose the answer your question?

 

[eyesinthedrk]

Gel filter is just fancy photo lingo for clear colored plastic. I keep mine in the phone case so I. Can always find it. Orange are best for blocking blues out to capture good color

 

[TheEngineer]

Take a look at the Canon Elph series. They take fairly nice photos, their small and you can make some tweaks on the camera to improve you shots.

 

[Bugsy_Barboza]

My canon t3i with kit lens (lens that comes from manufactory)

 

[Tanked_Life]

Wow that is some sicl feeding shots of your trunpets

 

[Bugsy_Barboza]

Check this cam out. Whatever you get make sure you can always upgrades lens. A good lens will make a huge difference.


http://www.amazon.com/Canon-Digital...words=canon+dslr&refinements=p_36:15000-25000

 

[Tegridy Reef]

I like canon and a great benefit is that Nikon lenses can work on them my macro is a Nikon lens

 

[Tanked_Life]

The thinks i learn haha you guys are all great photographers!

 

[Tanked_Life]

I will try the nikon macro lens on my cannon 520 and the orange film on my iphone i bought tje app and like it so far!

 

[Tegridy Reef]

U do need an adapter for it thou but i saved so much getting a Nikon macro got it used