My New Camera

[petersmart]

Well new to me

A couple of weeks ago I bought a Canon 1Ds Mk II N on here from Torque22.

I already have a Canon 1Ds MkII FF but wanted a second camera as a standby, also the charger and batteries are the same.

I also have a 350D from years ago but after the 1Ds find it extremely small nowadays.

Today was the first chance to give it a try out and here are a few pics from one of my favourite haunts, the Corby Boating Lake:

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The shots of the young goslings and the moorhens and coot chicks were taken at 300mm with my 70-300mm L IS USM ens fitted with a Kenko 1.4 extender.

This meant I could be about 8 feet away from the goslings and so not upset their parents.

The wood shot was taken with the 40mm STM lens.

All in all I'm very pleased with these shots which show that almost any camera can produce good shots with the right glass.

And my i7 really zips through the much smaller filesize. (8MB+)

Definitely pleased with these shots and doubt whether I could have done better with the 1Ds and it's larger files (16MB+)

What do you think?
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[realspeed]

Like the photos, pity not taken with a Nikon camera for that little extra something. Joking apart they are very good

 

[Photopaque]

Good shots and it goes to show that in good light the older cameras have no problems. With the great weather recently I have been getting great portraits with a d2x and sigma 18-50 f2.8. They look as good as anything I have had before plus the bonus is that my current kit only cost me £275 compared to my expensive previous kits.

 

[petersmart]

Good shots and it goes to show that in good light the older cameras have no problems. With the great weather recently I have been getting great portraits with a d2x and sigma 18-50 f2.8. They look as good as anything I have had before plus the bonus is that my current kit only cost me £275 compared to my expensive previous kits.

Well these shots could quite easily print at 30 or 40" since the ones here have been cropped a little and reduced quite a lot.

And even at 1600 or 3200 ISO and Neat Image I get good results from both my 1Ds and my 350D so would have no qualms about using the 1D2N at those settings.

With these shots I tried to fill the frame as much as possible which is something I think we tend to forget when we can crop out from larger images.

But I'll certainly be using this little beauty quite a lot I think.
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[F1.2]

Super sharp , A good lens / body combo

 

[petersmart]

And even at 1600 or 3200 ISO and Neat Image I get good results from both my 1Ds and my 350D so would have no qualms about using the 1D2N at those settings.

And to prove that point hers are 3 crops at 100% showing the low noise levels:

at 400ISO - the ones the goslings were shot at

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And the moorhens were shot at 800ISO with an exposure compensation of -1 stop so these are the equivalent of 1600 ISO:

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and the same exposure after being put through Neat Image noise reduction:

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These noise figures definitely beat my 1Ds Mk2 although of course that is offset to some degree by the larger filesize which would reduce the apparent noise when reduced in size.

But still an excellent result .

Oh and I forgot to mention this camera shoots at 8fps and when I tried it out I shot about 30+ JPEGs in 4 secs before the buffer filled up - this figure would probably have been better with a faster SDHC card.
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[Russ G]

Very nice photos, really sharp

 

[petersmart]

Went out again today and got loads more shots here are a few of them:

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Same combo as the others which isolated the heron (is it?) nicely from the background.

I'm not quite sure what that mark is on its eye though.

And this shot came as I was about to go home (after about 4 hours):

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Corby Boating Lake is full of carp at the moment and they were jumping right out of the water, I presume to catch flies, and although I tried to catch them this is the only one I got that actually showed a fish - well almost.

It's that dark humpy thing in the middle of the water spray!

So I guess I'll be going back again trying to do better.