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11/14/2004 04:59:03 PM · #1 |
Hello guys/gals, was curious if anyone who had the Canon EOS Digital Rebel
could anwser a few questions for me.
First off, im looking to get the body only, because I am looking to get a lens with failry good optical zoom on it (Sorry if im not using the correct lingo, im pretty new to this.) I would want something that has about 10-12x optical zoom, I dont want to go into digital zoom. Does anyone have any suggestions of lens's they use in the 200-300$ price range?
Another question I have is, what I will be primarily using this camera for is taking pictures of roller coasters (I work for a website about them www.americacoasters.com). I would want the shutter speed (Thats what casuses the train to blur, correct?) to be failry fast..so I can set it to make the train blur if I want, and not to blur if I dont want it to. The rollercoaster trains usualy go anywhere from 65-120 mph.
Any help would be greatly appricated! |
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11/14/2004 05:20:02 PM · #2 |
| Well I like the body a lot. There's a Sigma 50-500mm lens... that's 10x, but it's expensive! I think you might be using the 10-12x incorrectly however. for a lens to be 10x it's final zoom in mm has to be 10x the minimum. so a 1mm to 10mm has 1x zoom. As does the 50-500. However if the first lens was real, both would have quite different magnifications. |
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11/14/2004 06:18:35 PM · #3 |
well 10-12x is going to be hard to come by for a 35 mm cammera. I would suggest a hard look at the sigma 18-125 digital lens. This lens was created with digital cameras like the rebel specifically in mind. it is not very expensive ($270), has wide zoom ( 7.9x) and is light weight. the range it covers is impressive (24~200mm in 35mm) and the reviews have been pretty good. As for myself, I a about to pick up the 50-500 lens.
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11/14/2004 06:30:01 PM · #4 |
I have the sigma 18-125 and love it. It has a great range.
Some say it has focusing issues but i always use the center focus point and have not had any problems.
The sigma 70-300 apo mk11 is also not bad for the money but i have missed a few shots with fast moving subjects.
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11/14/2004 07:52:47 PM · #5 |
| You may be getting a lot more camera (and expense) than you need to for the shots you describe. There a lot of good long zoom prosumer cameras on the market now. Off the top of my head I'd say look into the Canon S1 IS, the Konica-Minolta DiMAGE Z1, the Olympus C-700 series, the very new Nikon Coolpix 8800, and the Panasonic DMC-FZ20. Among these, I'm partial to the FZ20 (I have one) but they are all good cameras with 10-12x zoom in a fairly wide ranges of prices. |
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11/14/2004 08:01:56 PM · #6 |
Originally posted by Striff:
I would want the shutter speed (Thats what casuses the train to blur, correct?) to be failry fast..so I can set it to make the train blur if I want, and not to blur if I dont want it to. The rollercoaster trains usualy go anywhere from 65-120 mph. |
Here are a couple of recent pictures I took of a roller coaster at night using the Rebel.
This one purposely blurs the roller coaster: 
While this one tries to freeze it: 
The second one required the use of the Canon 550EX flash with it set to "second shutter synch". What this means is that the flash fires at the END of the exposure rather than at the beginning. You need this capability to blur in-motion subjects such that the blur is behind the frozen part. Otherwise, normal flash exposures (where the flash fires as the shutter first opens) freeze the beginning of the action and leave the ending blurred. (it makes cars and other subjects look wrong)
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11/15/2004 12:02:38 AM · #7 |
I agree with coolhar that you should look at some of the long zoom digicams. I think the Panasonic DMC-FZ20 would be a great choice.
For a good long lens for the canon, you are going to need a BIG lens, and it will be hard/expensive to get one with a wide aperture. Worse, you would need one with IS (antishake) and that's more expensive and bigger still.
The panasonic is a 400mm max telephoto lens with a 2.8 aperture and antishake in a package not much bigger than the Canon body, and at about $550 total.
What you will lose by not going with the Canon SLR is it's lack of shutter delay, which many digicams have. That's something you will have to investigate (meaning go see a camera and try it) yourself to judge.
Message edited by author 2004-11-15 00:03:02. |
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