huh what do you mean by that? it was at f2.8 and 200mm. if the photo angle and composition not good enough, then it's my fault. but if you mean IQ, i don't know how to reply you.

quite sure it didn't, i zoomed in into 100% crop yesterday, everything was tack sharp. its the f2.8 is II

could be forgive me for taking a bad picture of bird, since it's my first bird picture.

Looks like he is shooting video

but the bad thing for LV is, the focusing of course, you can get it right with manual. The main thing I don't like with LV is the shutter delay/lag, when you press the shutter, you have to wait for the mirror to flip and the shutter to do the job, it's a lot slower than viewfinder shooting.

Maybe he thinks that the bokeh is not enough. But those grass/leaves are just few centimeters from the bird, so at 200mm f2.8 I couldn't think how I can make the picture looks better.

huh? that would bring all the distractions into the picture a lot more.

I didn't have the opportunity to frame as I want that time, the bird was literally hiding inside a bushes and there are quite a lot of twigs around, making my view gets really blocked. hmm... but this is not the best picture that I can make, I just wanted to try to get some bird pictures using the lens as it was my first time using it.



Sharing a macro.


The Eyes by tuna97, on Flickr

it's already f9/11 if I am not wrong. I actually liked the lack of depth of field, leading the focus to the eyes only.

hmmm yeah. but i want to show the other side of the eyes, maybe it didn't worked out so well.

thats what in my mind that time.

could be, i will try to avoid shots like that in the future, didn't work quite well.

how about this?

Thanks! Didn't thought that this shot will turns out well, since I used the 200mm end of zoom instead of those UWA.

yeap when i switched to the 16-35, I don't really like the scene anymore, because the trees around are just so distracting.

those animals wouldn't stay there and pose for you, they can fly away anytime. so what i can do that time was to go near of it as quiet as possible then quickly grab a picture before scaring it away.

haha, but the money...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPVFPI4hIMs

this might be a better solution

agreed. luckily I am not a bird shooter though insects are way easier for photos.

http://fstoppers.com/review-you-should-wan...f2-8-sport-lens

wow, why can't canon make a lens like this?

Had a little question about manual focusing.

I am using the 550D currently, manual focusing is easy with small aperture lens (such as my 18-135), but when using the 50mm f1.8, things get a bit harder, I can still nail the shot, but the keep rate wasn't that high though.

I got interested in some manual lenses, but not sure if the small viewfinder on my 550D will make me hard to focus correctly using them. Sometimes even when the focus is right, the focus confirmation light won't light up.

I was thinking if FF cameras would make manual focusing easier?

how about the larger viewfinder? I read somewhere saying FF camera have larger mirrors resulting larger viewfinders, easier to manual focus.

well... of course if i had the money for 5d3 i wont use manual lenses at all

nah i don't shoot fast moving subjects, but i don't really like shooting in LV, feels not so comfortable in holding the camera in such position. i shoot some portraits, but main thing would be macro. i don't really shoot far subjects so yeah most of the time manual focusing is still ok for me.