Recent content by psf150

+1 for the 550 2nd hand. Budget for £130 ish give or take, depending on condition. It will satisfy pretty much all of your needs Word of warning though, its huge. Apparently the biggest flash Canon have produced. Its a whopper

Welcome to the guarenteed "slightly out of focus shots of our children when using a nifty fifty club"!:D You are not alone. You'll find my posts about the same subject about a month ago! I have 2 young ones also, and getting them to stay in the frame never mind still, is like herding...

The other thing you could try is to select centre point focus. On the back of your camera top right there is a box with a cross on it made of dots (I'm assuming its the same as my 40d!) Press this and then look at the top screen. Everytime you then move the top wheel it will change the focus...

Looks like you should be ok then. In terms of lens, if you have or can borrow a ultra wide lens, then would be useful as you will be quite close to some very large planes! I'm thinking a 10 - 22 mm or something like that. You may also want to take some of your pictures in black and white, or...

Hi Ben First point is you need to check what their policy is in terms of photography. In my experience most museums and galleries will allow yout to, but specify no flash. However some say none at all. I was in Eltham Palace at the weekend and got collared taking internal shots (without...

I need to take my kids to the vet? :D

Oh and another one ... If you are hand holding your camera when taking a shot, make sure the shutter speed used is at least as long as the lens on your camera e.g. If you have a 100 mm lens, the shutter speed needs to be at least 1/100 to avoid camera shake. If its not, you need to increase the...

EF85mm 1.2f And see if I can finally nail that once in a lifetime shot I'm eternally searching for, of each of my 100 mph kids! :D

Good choice of camera. Suggest upgrading the kit lens to a 18 - 135 mm or 17 - 85 mm, or if you can afford it the 15 -85 mmm lens

Ok, I have been trying to get much better at taking photo's for ages. I'm still at the basics, however slowly improving, particularly because I've had some fantastic advice on these forums. My idea is such, what is the best advice or lesson you have learnt that you would give to a newbie? My...

Sorry to the OP for jumping on the thread, but I have to say (and despite being very much a cat person rather than dogs), but these shots are absolutely stunning, as well as technically impressive. Top man :clap:

Hi. My hit rate of spot-on focussing when taking photo's indoors went up significantly when I started using flash. I know that sounds obvious in terms of light levels, but what i hadn't anticipated was that the infra red beam on the flashgun makes a huge effect on obtaining sharper focus...

Hi, welcome to the forums. Providing you do your homework and read through the person's feedback, particularly as a seller, then ebay can work. I've bought 2 x lens and a camera off it (all seperate transactions), and all with good experiences. The other option is to buy off the...

Vote here for irfanview http://www.irfanview.com/ I particularly like it for converting raw files to jpegs. Has some good automated tools, e.g. auto sharpen and auto correct colours, but you can obviously do a large amount of manual edits. The other thing I really like about it, is you...

I have the 10-22 and its a lovely lens, but very very wide with a fair amount of distortion and vignetting when its wide open. You could think about doubling up - with a prime along the lines you suggest and then a general purpose walk around zoom lens, which will give you more opportunity...