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Monday, November 16, 2015

Canon 700d - T5i

I finally upgraded my camera from the t2i to the t5i. I wanted something that would give me some level of an upgrade, but not to spend allot of money, and preserve the grip and batteries that I already own for the t2i.

Here are a few of my observations having used the t5i extensively now for a few weeks:

1) The t5i goes to a higher native ISO 100-6400 as standard. This is very helpful for night photography - and definitely noticeable.

2) The t5i overall seams to process the OOC JPG's in a more pleasant way (to me). This is specially noticeable in the colors, and overall dynamic range - dark areas are brightened up a little. Overall PP is very nice - noticeably more advanced then the t2i.

3) The touch screen is cute - not a game changer.

4) My canon 15-85 seems to perform much better on the t5i - maybe the camera was tweaked for it ?

5) The t5i goes 5 FPS - seems like a more sturdy shutter mechanism.

6) The swivel screen is cute - also not a game changer. (I don't really do video)

I also purchased the LOVELY 24mm EF-S 2.8 lens. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!







Monday, October 26, 2015

Assorted Shots

Canon 15-85

Canon 15-85

Canon 15-85

Samyang 16mm f/2


Canon EF-S 24mm

Canon EF-S 24mm

Canon EF-S 24mm f/2.8

Canon EF-S 24mm

Sunday, July 5, 2015

Wednesday, May 6, 2015

Thoughts about gear ......... where is canon ??

I've had my gear - canon 550d + a bunch of lenses - for a while now since 2010. It served me well and ushered me into my photography hobby.

I do feel it is time for me to invest in some kind of upgrade - due to the following reasons:


  1. The body is quite old and outdated
  2. I find myself not wanting to carry around such a heavy setup - especially in casual settings like going out for a coffee or strolling around town.
  3. Most of my photography is done around people, in malls, in the street, in coffee shops, and the DSLR makes people uncomfortable and wary. Many malls will not even let you in with it, and certainly not allow you to take pictures. Small and discreet seems to be the best way to go.
  4. I find myself doing allot of night photography - and my gear does not seem to cater to that.
  5. All the newer types of cameras - especially the smaller lighter mirror-less options seem to be much more advanced then my 550d - especially all in in camera filters and features. The 550d is very basic.

I recently purchased a new P&S camera (our old canon G11 died) and i went for the Fuji X30.

WOW - a small camera - with a VF, a fast 28-112 lens f/2 - 2.8 - with a bunch of in camera fantastic options. And the image quality - is simply amazing - even though at the end of the day the small sensor cannot produce DSLR quality pictures - it comes mighty close.

I had regarded the mirror-less cameras as "toys" - but started to research and compare the better ones to DSLR's. The web is full of such comparisons of say the Fuji Xt-1 or EX-2 being compared with the Canon 7d or even 6d.

Fuji in particular seems to be a fascinating system - as they went and produced a whole line of brand new high quality primes - for their X line of interchangeable lens cameras.

Canon has not produced ANYTHING interesting as far as primes for the crop sensor bodies.

Here I am - owning a slew of canon lenses, but for me to really jump ahead as far as IQ - I would need to purchase a FF camera + FF zoom lenses - a very expensive heavy bulky setup - that I would probably never really want to shlepp around ! And even the 6d - as far as in camera options - does not have anything near the slew of options found in the new fuji, panasonic, sony, or olympus cameras!

Canon seems to have a "gap" - and not catering to the advanced hobbyist ! I want to super high quality crop body, with matching crop lenses, in a rebel size package!

The new rebels t6i/s are more puzzling to me. They are more of the same as far as basic IQ of rebels, have even more slightly larger bulky bodies, tiny optical VF (crummy ?) - who are these aimed at - in todays world of smaller high quality options from the competition ?