Photography
On the 15th of June 2011, we had a full lunar eclipse. A question that was asked often was how to shoot such an event. Firstly, the good new is that you can enjoy this event without the worries of damaging your eyes or equipment’s sensor. Shooting the moon is actually pretty easy, manually set [...]
Whether I like it or not, I have made a conscious educated choice the day I decided to by my 100-400mm zoom, I have made my bed and I have to live with it. But how well am I living with it? After 11 days and some 3500 photos done with my 2 lenses, the [...]
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I finally got hold of the infamous Canon 24-70mm f/2.4 L lens, let me say that it was a mission on it’s own, there must be a serious shortage of these lenses in South Africa. Here is are first impressions.
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I have herd many times that Teleconverter are useless, they take away too much from the lens native abilities. I agree that they do take away a lot, but I also believe that the Canon EF 2x II Extender has a place in my camera bag. Think of the price of an entry level 800mm [...]
I use to use a Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 II kit lens for my indoor sports photography and had a lot of problems even with a Canon Speedlite 430EX flash. I eventually figured out that the optics and lens construction were really not up to standards for this and most other kind of photography. It’s [...]
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A while back I decided to go into photography all the way, I proceeded to buy a Canon EOS 400D and chose to kit it up with good lenses. Once I would have the lenses that are appropriate for what I do, wildlife photography, I would then proceed to buy a better camera, another Canon [...]
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