Will bokeh save that picture? It doesn't look like he is shooting wide open for that picture.

Edit: Checked the EXIF, he was shooting at 85mm at f5.6

This post has been edited by mingyuyu: Sep 22 2013, 10:01 AM

Based on the light falloff at the left side, I think it's a printed landscape, the hue on the lens was also different.

Sharing some shots and also a short review of the Tamron 70-200 Macro I just bought last week.


IMG_9355 by tuna97, on Flickr

Macro ability - It was quite good, and I get a very long working distance so those bugs won't get frightened by me. It's also safer for me when photographing bees or any bugs that might attack me. The magnification rate of course can't be compared with true macro lens, but not everyone need 1:1 magnification all the time, so it's quite convenient for me to use. Down sides are the images were quite soft if taken at 200mm f2.8 at max magnification, even if you get the correct focus, images will still turn out really soft and glow, shooting at f4 will result you very sharp images.The lack of VC also makes you had to shoot at a higher shutter speed when shooting closely, the best I can get at closest focusing is 1/125 shutter speed without any blur.


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For general usage, it is quite good. Problem is, the focusing isn't that accurate sometimes, it will front focus most of the time. Try to focus a few times and you will get the right focus. When things are in focus, be ready to impressed by the sharpness. It was even sharper than the famous Canon 70-200L f2.8 Mark I. Handholding the lens isn't quite a problem since it was lighter than any other 70-200 that's equipped with IS and have f2.8 maximum aperture. Manual focusing on this lens isn't that hard since I can get sharp macro shots with it too.

Overall, not a bad lens, just that you might get rage if you are shooting fast moving objects or low light where the weakest point of the lens - focusing, spoils most of the pictures.

This post has been edited by mingyuyu: Sep 24 2013, 06:02 PM

Haha thanks.

I bought mine at a super nice price . Saw one at gs selling for 1.7k now.

Tamron was producing awesome new lineup of lenses recently that received a lot of attention until Sigma announced their future lenses and killed everything haha.

haha yeah, pair those 2 lens with a xxxD or xxD and you are good to go, can cover a lot of kinds of photography. But strangely last time when I used my friend's 17-50 f2.8, the focusing was really slow and loud, a lot slower and louder than the 70-200, the zoom ring was quite stiff to turn too. Not sure if it is just that his unit is something wrong or is it the general character of the lens? but USM is really poisoning

haha that's very true, the speed and accuracy of it really awesome

Maybe I am too used to MF/AF switch, when I use USM lenses, i still prefer to fiddle the switch rather than over riding the AF to do focus adjustment. The tamron sucks in this regard, the push pull mechanism isn't that bad, but not that convenient to use soemtimes when you are holding the camera in some position.

I tried this setting on my friend's 60D before, really useful for USM lenses.

This is one of the reason why i am thinking to upgrade to 60D, but if i don't own any USM lenses there's no point to do so.

can 550D do the same? can't agree more with you, last time when I was shooting sports event with my friend's 70-200, I set the camera to AI servo mode. but then when i want to take pics of static subjects instantly, i got frustrated by the camera constantly hunting for focus.

i think there are more than 1 posts that explained about how canon works before. and there's google, stop asking the same question.

He already asked everything about a camera, including a lot of nonsense, yet still not buying it.

really need to shoot soemthing new too many butterflies


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IMG_9327 by tuna97, on Flickr

Trying some cinematic style editing.


IMG_9627 by tuna97, on Flickr

welcome welcome

what lens though?

quite sure that's what he's going to buy based on his Nikon weapon.

fuyooo, finally new toy?

Regarding shooting in RAW or JPEG, it depends on individual imo. If you have a large memory card, shoot RAW. If you have the time to edit every pictures, shoot RAW.

Yeah, no point keeping all the 1k images.

Or maybe shoot RAW + JPEG? Keep the file as JPEG only for pictures that you don't think is good enough, but still wanted to keep it as memory. Save as RAW and edit for the images that you really liked.

I can understand when you travel you wanna take a lot of pictures of everything around

I've experienced the same before, end up spent few days going through all the pictures.

Hmm... memory cards are quite cheap actually, perhaps you should consider getting another card? I have 32gb SD card but never use more than 20% of the space on it, I like to keep my card clean so I always format it after some period.