meh I prefer taking photos of people who are not posing for me course I want to take photos of them when they are acting naturally not posing

well she doesnt have a bad camera
i use to want that camera before i got interested in dslrs.
but that was before youtube was invented. so it was quite a while ago.

i want to shoot in raw but im too lazy, and i havent really worked on lightroom 2 at all

liek hiding in the bushes?

papa papa paparazzi!

Ok basicly, what I want, is to improve certain aspects of my photo skills, that CAN be improved with the camera itself.
I mean, if I totally screw up on a picture, I have to improve my own skills...

Most of you know what I like to take pictures of...
Macro photography of flowers and, most of all, insects.
I have a passion for nature, insects, spiders, mammals, brds etc..
You have not seen many bird pictures from me cause imo a 200mm + is required.. 300 mm even better.
But I would totally love to have the equivalent or better, in digital, to what I used to take pictures with on film.

My old camera, that I still have but do not use anymore cause of digital being so easy and cheap, is a Canon T70, all manual focus.
had a 50 mm lens and a 200 lens f:3.5.
Nothing great, but of great use, since I could also borrow my dad's lenses (he has a Canon A1 with even better lens than me..).

I do not do any studio photography.
I like to be spontaneous and all.

This is an exemple of a picture that I think is good (to my taste) but too grainy and lacking details:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2552/4120677896_cd9e9b7361.jpg

These are the stats:

Camera: Canon PowerShot A570 IS
Exposure: 0.013 sec (1/80)
Aperture: f/5.5
Focal Length: 23.2 mm
ISO Speed: 80
Exposure Bias: -1/3 EV
Flash: Off, Did not fire

File Size: 3.2 MB
File Modify Date: 2009:11:20 20:35:34+00:00
File Type: JPEG
MIME Type: image/jpeg
Image Width: 3072
Image Height: 1728
Encoding Process: Baseline DCT, Huffman coding
Bits Per Sample: 8
Color Components: 3
X-Resolution: 72 dpi
Y-Resolution: 72 dpi
Orientation: Horizontal (normal)
Date and Time (Modified): 2009:11:18 09:13:02
YCbCr Positioning: Centered
Date and Time (Original): 2009:11:18 08:03:31
Date and Time (Digitized): 2009:11:18 08:03:31
Compressed Bits Per Pixel: 5
Max Aperture Value: 5.5
Metering Mode: Multi-segment
Color Space: sRGB
Focal Plane X-Resolution: 13653.33333 dpi
Focal Plane Y-Resolution: 10224.85207 dpi
Sensing Method: One-chip color area
Custom Rendered: Normal
Exposure Mode: Manual
White Balance: Manual
Digital Zoom Ratio: 1
Scene Capture Type: Standard
Macro Mode: Normal
Self Timer: Off
Quality: Superfine
Canon Flash Mode: Off
Continuous Drive: Single
Focus Mode: Single
Record Mode: JPEG
Canon Image Size: Widescreen
Easy Mode: Manual
Digital Zoom: None
Contrast: -1
Saturation: +1
Sharpness: +1
Camera ISO: 80
Metering Mode: Evaluative
Focus Range: Auto
AFPoint: Auto AF point selection
Canon Exposure Mode: Shutter speed priority AE
Lens Type: Unknown (-1)
Long Focal: 23.2 mm
Short Focal: 5.8 mm
Focal Units: 1000/mm
Max Aperture: 5.5
Min Aperture: 8
Flash Bits: (none)
Focus Continuous: Single
AESetting: Normal AE
Image Stabilization: On
Display Aperture: 5.5
Zoom Source Width: 3072
Zoom Target Width: 3072
Spot Metering Mode: Center
Manual Flash Output: n/a
Focal Type: Zoom
Focal Plane XSize: 5.84 mm
Focal Plane YSize: 4.39 mm
Auto ISO: 100
Base ISO: 79
Measured EV: 6.94
Target Aperture: 5.5
Target Exposure Time: 1/79
White Balance: Daylight
Slow Shutter: Off
Sequence Number: 0
Optical Zoom Code: 7
Flash Guide Number: 0
Flash Exposure Comp: 0
Auto Exposure Bracketing: Off
AEBBracket Value: 0
Control Mode: Camera Local Control
Focus Distance Upper: 27.79
Focus Distance Lower: 0
Bulb Duration: 0
Camera Type: Compact
Auto Rotate: None
NDFilter: Off
Self Timer2: 0
Flash Output: 0
Canon Firmware Version: Firmware Version 1.00
File Number: 100-4815
Rotation: 0
Canon Model ID: PowerShot A570 IS
AFMode: Multi-point AF
Num AFPoints: 9
Valid AFPoints: 9
AFArea Widths: 276 276 276 276 276 276 276 276 276
AFArea Heights: 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41
Primary AFPoint: 6
Date Stamp Mode: Off
My Color Mode: Custom
Firmware Revision: 1.00 rev 5.00
Categories: (none)
Faces Detected: 0
Face Detect Frame Width: 0
Face Detect Frame Height: 0
Image Unique ID: c564418fdcd2f6d3c230509b78e4055c
Related Image Width: 3072
Related Image Height: 1728
Compression: JPEG (old-style)

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Ok to me it'S all chinese...

But basicly I want to upgrade the picture quality to be also able to make a nice enlargement of the pictures I like the most...
I have a feeling that this picture would look like crap in 11 x 16 ...

So these are my needs when looking for a new camera.
I also do not need the latest model..
Last year's model is perfect for me

Now what do you recommend......

Thank you so much everyone for participating in this

lots of fuzzies.

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you can use those lenses from the Canon T70 and A1 on canon digital cameras, but you need adapter that has glass in it if you want to focus to infinity and it lowers iq and adds 1.5x more focal lenght, so 200mm 3.5 would get to 300mm 3.5 and with cameras 1.6 crop factor the lens would be same as 480mm on full frame or film. if you get adapter without the glass element, the adapter works same way as extension tubes, lowers the minimum focus distance(dunno how much, but my guess would be to about half). using adapter without glass you can get some macro shots with it, but i bet you need to use extension tubes allso to get really close shots, like ants face covering whole frame or something like that.

before getting eny adapter you should make sure that you can change the aperature from the lens (not all fd lenses have this) or you need to use the lens wide open all the time and with 200mm lens the focused area would be so small that the lens would be unusable for macroing.

wow that's very mature... and you know that if im into those kind of creepy stuff I would need some telephoto lenses which I dont plan on buying


ok first of all the image quality would decrease once you put on that adapter and you would have to set everything manually and I don't think you can meter either etc etc
so those kind of manual lenses are limited to certain type of photography and is almost impossible to focus on moving subjects even the slow ones so yeah...

This post was edited by Futurama on Dec 15 2009 04:19pm

c'mon that was a joke

you can meter with canons using manual lenses, only thing you lose besides manual focus is auto aperature setting, but auto aperature isnt really that good enyways, better to use auto shutterspeed if you want to use some of auto mods

iq decreases only with adapter that has glass element in it, fd lenses are only usefull lenses that need the glass element to focus to infinity. like i told its possible to use adapter without glass element on fs lenses, but it works as extension tube, so you lose infinity focus, but you are able to focus closer than normally.

heres some examples using fd lens(with glass element adapter) on eos body:







i think it was 70-200 3.5 lens or something like that, it didnt have aperature control on the lens, so these were all shot wide open