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Hi all, just a quick one here to introduce myself.
My name is Chris, and am into my motorsport.
I have a trackday car and always did like buying the nice pictures of my car after trackdays.
I had never really had a massive interest in photography previously, mainly due to my lack of creativity.
However, my wife does enjoy taking pictures of all sorts of things, but has never really had a decent camera.
So I decided for xmas last year that I was going to get her a DSLR (especially after breaking a button on her camera when I took it out on a boys weekend sometime before).
After doing a bit of research and looking at the deals on offer I decided on getting her a Canon 500D with the 18-55 IS kit lens.
The main reason I chose the Canon was due to already having 2 friends with Canon's (400D and 450D) and so I knew we could lend each other lenses and enable us to have a larger selection between us. Plus they had prior knowledge of the cameras.
Knowing what my Mrs is like though with just using things and never reading up on them beforehand, I told her she couldn't use the camera until she / we had atleast read up on the basics of shutter timing, ISO, apature etc as there was no point in having a nice camera and just using the auto settings (IMO).
This led to me signing up on these forums after recommendation from other 'togs on other forums I use just after xmas for us to both use this account to help explain things to beginners.
Typically, as she is a stubborn woman, she never really ended up reading anything and I ended up doing loads of reading so we now take photos as a sort of team effort; her being the creative one and I tend to advise her on what settings I think may help her out and try to educate her as she still has no idea what they really do.
She was dissapointed with the zooming capability of the kit lens after coming from a compact camera that had 10x optical zoom (no idea of the real figures of this though) and I tried to explain to her that you get different lenses for different things.
We borrowed a EF 75-300mm f/4-5.6 Canon from a friend when we went to Spain earlier on in the year so she could have a play with the difference in focal length.
I had already been thinking about trying to get photos of motorsport and had decided that we would need a longer lens then we had for that sort of thing.
We also both like the idea of macro + nature photography; she likes flora and I like the fauna.
After doing more reading on here, we have decided to look at getting a decent telephoto lens to use hopefully for motorsport and then we can combine this with a diopter for some macro stuff, so hopefully getting some kit for 2 different needs.
While we want a telephoto lens, we don't want to double up on anything our friends already have that we can all use, and I am always of the old adage 'buy once, buy right' so we have decided to save up for an EF 70-200mm f/4 L lens. That, along with a DCR250 should give us a nice setup for a wide selection of things (we are hoping!)
Hoping to have the lens for when we go to the F1 in the summer.
Anyways,
Cheers for all your advice and help so far (without your knowing) and I hope that eventually I/we can contribute some decent shots and comments to the forum.
Chris
My name is Chris, and am into my motorsport.
I have a trackday car and always did like buying the nice pictures of my car after trackdays.
I had never really had a massive interest in photography previously, mainly due to my lack of creativity.
However, my wife does enjoy taking pictures of all sorts of things, but has never really had a decent camera.
So I decided for xmas last year that I was going to get her a DSLR (especially after breaking a button on her camera when I took it out on a boys weekend sometime before).
After doing a bit of research and looking at the deals on offer I decided on getting her a Canon 500D with the 18-55 IS kit lens.
The main reason I chose the Canon was due to already having 2 friends with Canon's (400D and 450D) and so I knew we could lend each other lenses and enable us to have a larger selection between us. Plus they had prior knowledge of the cameras.
Knowing what my Mrs is like though with just using things and never reading up on them beforehand, I told her she couldn't use the camera until she / we had atleast read up on the basics of shutter timing, ISO, apature etc as there was no point in having a nice camera and just using the auto settings (IMO).
This led to me signing up on these forums after recommendation from other 'togs on other forums I use just after xmas for us to both use this account to help explain things to beginners.
Typically, as she is a stubborn woman, she never really ended up reading anything and I ended up doing loads of reading so we now take photos as a sort of team effort; her being the creative one and I tend to advise her on what settings I think may help her out and try to educate her as she still has no idea what they really do.
She was dissapointed with the zooming capability of the kit lens after coming from a compact camera that had 10x optical zoom (no idea of the real figures of this though) and I tried to explain to her that you get different lenses for different things.
We borrowed a EF 75-300mm f/4-5.6 Canon from a friend when we went to Spain earlier on in the year so she could have a play with the difference in focal length.
I had already been thinking about trying to get photos of motorsport and had decided that we would need a longer lens then we had for that sort of thing.
We also both like the idea of macro + nature photography; she likes flora and I like the fauna.
After doing more reading on here, we have decided to look at getting a decent telephoto lens to use hopefully for motorsport and then we can combine this with a diopter for some macro stuff, so hopefully getting some kit for 2 different needs.
While we want a telephoto lens, we don't want to double up on anything our friends already have that we can all use, and I am always of the old adage 'buy once, buy right' so we have decided to save up for an EF 70-200mm f/4 L lens. That, along with a DCR250 should give us a nice setup for a wide selection of things (we are hoping!)
Hoping to have the lens for when we go to the F1 in the summer.
Anyways,
Cheers for all your advice and help so far (without your knowing) and I hope that eventually I/we can contribute some decent shots and comments to the forum.
Chris
