New Lens

[clubbyr8]

This is a picture of a Rainbow Lorikeet taken with my new Canon EF 100mm macro.

Bob

http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc267/clubbyr8v8/IMG_3909_1_2.jpg

[les88]

Wow :2tsup::2tsup::2tsup:
les

[wheelinround]

This is a picture of a Rainbow Lorikeet taken with my new Canon EF 100mm macro.

Bob



top photo Bob

mounted on what camera in the canon range

[clubbyr8]

Taken with a Canon 350D. Saving my pennies for a 40D (hopefully early next year:D:D:D)

Bob

[wheelinround]

Taken with a Canon 350D. Saving my pennies for a 40D (hopefully early next year:D:D:D)

Bob


I am saving for the 400D trouble Camera House has a great special at the moment on 2 different 400D's on one with the older lens's $1100 and one with the new lens's $1600

They have a special on the 40D also:D

[woodbe]

Bluddy good shot with bluddy good lens.

I have one, but hardly ever use it. Thanks for the reminder :)

woodbe.

[ciscokid]

That's a terrific photograph. Brilliant colors! I have a 100 2.8 for my 30D that I haven't used in ages. Heavy piece of glass, if memory serves me correctly. You have given me inspiration to pull it out and dust it off. Thank you! :2tsup:

[clubbyr8]

Woodbe,

This is the second decent lens I've bought (the first being the nifty fifty). The photo results are a quantum leap over the kit lenses. Next lens purchase will probably be a 400mm f5.6 L, but until then this 100mm will be my most used lens. By the way, the uncompressed version of this photo is stunning. The 100mm is definately a very sharp lens.

Bob

[wheelinround]

Woodbe,

This is the second decent lens I've bought (the first being the nifty fifty). The photo results are a quantum leap over the kit lenses. Next lens purchase will probably be a 400mm f5.6 L, but until then this 100mm will be my most used lens. By the way, the uncompressed version of this photo is stunning. The 100mm is definately a very sharp lens.

Bob

Would be nice to see the photo of the uncompressed version I am sure but we wont unless you post it :D:2tsup::wink:

[seriph1]

that's spectacular! I have a great camera but have to admit that I am 'a guy with a camera' NOT a photographer. I am running an Olympus E-330 with a Carl Zeiss lenses .... went with this over the canon variants and am happy so far. I saw some amazing images yesterday using a 40D - shots of humpback whales breeching the water etc. just lovely. I am all inspired now so I'll post a couple of my pics .... be kind to me boys and girls!
:D:D:D:D:D

[seriph1]

Would be nice to see the photo of the uncompressed version I am sure but we wont unless you post it :D:2tsup::wink:


Wouldn't an uncompressed version be 10meg or more?

[seriph1]

these are pics I took a couple of weeks ago ... I just noticed the OP's bird image is 420K .... I thought the pics had to be under 100K each....interesting

All except the mannequin were taken one Saturday morning around 6:30 .... great sunshine etc. The mannequin was taken at sunset .... I was walking down the hall and just saw how the sun was coming through and creating the pattern on the wall through the frame and grabbed the camera .... 5 minutes and it was allover but I got was happy to get the shot.

I took a lot of pics that day and it was a heap of fun ... for some reason my fave is the magpie ... I know he is far right in the shot but the fence post seems to balance that out.

They were cropped using PhotoShop and all were taken around home in Kilmore, VIC.

[clubbyr8]

Uncompressed is 4.89Mb as I shot it in Jpeg. I actually should have said "original image not uncompressed". My camera is now set on RAW so hopefully, images will improve. :-:-

As for the original image posting, most forums only allow you to link to an image 800 pixels wide. Photobucket won't allow me to download the original image. Any suggestions on where I can do this?

Bob

[clubbyr8]

[quote=seriph1;613155]these are pics I took a couple of weeks ago ... I just noticed the OP's bird image is 420K .... I thought the pics had to be under 100K each....interesting



Steve,

If you attach an image, then the attachment is limited to 100K. If you use a picture hosting site like photobucket, you can upload pictures up to 800 pixels (or more) wide. Photobucket gives you the code for the link to the picture which you then add to the post in the forum.

Bob

[seriph1]

I guess a 100K zip would work, coupled with a lowres image as a thumbnail so ppl could see what theyre opening. Alternatively you could link to a dedicated photography site that allows large file sizes.....?

[seriph1]

umm ... so is that image of yours really a link to somewhere else, but it appears in here? Just a little unclear if I can stick images on here like you have .... spend far too much time resizing pics for forums!

[clubbyr8]

Right click on the photo, click on properties and you will see the link.

Bob

[seriph1]

Thanks Bob - very handy to know .... I will have to join photobucket - it should save me some time!

[wheelinround]

Clubby my Uncle is a very keen bird person I was wondering if you'd mind me printing off a copy of your photo for him.

One of his old eagles is stuffed and at the Sydney Museum

[clubbyr8]

PM your email address and I'll send you the original image.

Bob

[wheelinround]

PM your email address and I'll send you the original image.

Bob


TY bob greenie on way too for the photo which is excellent and the favour.

[wheelinround]

Thanks Bob e-mail arrived ok after fix in yahoo went to spam box.

Now I could if I had the printer plotter printed this off as an A2

I have placed the details where when and by who on the boarder of the photo.:2tsup:

[clubbyr8]

Hope it prints out OK, I've printed an A4 size on my Hp Photosmart 3110 on HP Premium Plus paper. Came out a treat.

Bob

[wheelinround]

Hope it prints out OK, I've printed an A4 size on my Hp Photosmart 3110 on HP Premium Plus paper. Came out a treat.

Bob

It printed very well A4 Epson 915 Photostylis Glossy Paper

[pawnhead]

That's a great shot clubbyr8. I'd love to get myself a decent camera.

Imageshack (http://imageshack.us/) allows images up to 1.5MB, and you don't have to sign up.

This one is only 133kB, but it's 1600px wide:

http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/2227/moonhicr2.jpg

This one is just over 1.5MB, and it's almost 4200 px wide:

http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/8356/freeflyernasabig1gn6.th.jpg (http://img81.imageshack.us/my.php?image=freeflyernasabig1gn6.jpg)

There's an image at the Hubble site that's 15852 x 12392 pixels here (http://hubblesite.org/gallery/album/entire_collection/pr2006010a/).

[clubbyr8]

Hi John,

Superb shot. What is the Exif data on that shot?

Photobucket will allow images 1024 x 768 (for free) or 2mb per image if you subscribe for $25 a year). I only made the 800 pixels wide because I subscribe to a Canon forum and they only allow images up to 800 pixels wide. I just assumed all forums were like that. This is the above shot at 1024 pixels. Thanks for the info on Imageshack.


Bob


http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc267/clubbyr8v8/IMG_3909_1_3.jpg

[pawnhead]

Yeh I use my photobucket account most of the time, but Imageshack is better for big shots and I'm a cheapskate who doesn't pay for hosting if I don't have to. :wink:

I don't know anything much about cameras, and I've just got a nifty little Olympus with a 3X optical zoom, but it's nothing special. I just like space pics and I found them on the web.

I found that moon image on OCAU science forums which I frequent. They've got a good photography forum there as well, but I don't hang around there. You have to sign up there at the moment, but they'll soon be going public. Second biggest forums in Australia I believe, so they'll only get bigger when they open it up.

The guy at OCAU found it on another forum, and the guy who took it posted a thread about it here (http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16822681). The original image posted is 947kB, taken with a Canon EOS 20D 1/5th ISO100, whatever that means. :U Apparently the moon really is that colour, but not as 'colour-saturated'.

That second photo is a poor quality reproduction of the original. I stuffed around with it to get it at 1.5MB with maximum pixels to see if it would upload to Imageshack. The original is 1.7MB but it's only 1500px wide.
You can find it, along with some other big (and cool) space shots on my blog, Spaced out! (http://www.woodworkforums.com/blog.php?b=74) :2tsup:

I don't understand why some pics are heavy on the bandwidth, whilst being comparatively small in size. Here's one I've got in my Imageshack account that's only 442kB but it's 3032px wide and the resolution at full size is good:
http://img386.imageshack.us/my.php?image=151883maindzl6.jpg
And that Lorikeet shot of yours is now 681kB, but it's only 1024x683px making it 699,392 pixels. whereas that moon shot is only 133kB, but it's 1600x1200 making it 1,920,000 pixels total, so it's less than a fifth of the weight, but near three times the size. :?

Edit: I blew up that moon shot to 5800x4350 so it's huge, and a bit blurry now. It came up as 1.47MB on my PC, but when uploaded to Imageshack they called it at just over 1.5MB:

http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/2583/moonhicr2xd3.th.jpg (http://img85.imageshack.us/my.php?image=moonhicr2xd3.jpg)

You have an option to post thumbnails without the image info at the bottom, or you can post the full image, but that would be insane on a forum. It would stick way out the side, and the page would take ages to load for anyone viewing the thread. Anyone on dial up would be pretty peeved off with me if I did that. :U
I suppose it depends on what's in the image. I just blew up a blank page bigger than that shot, and it's less than a third of the weight. I'm not wasting my time and bandwidth uploading it though.

[clubbyr8]

By the way, the 400mm 5.6L lens I want to get retails for $2319 :o:o:o and weighs in at a hefty 1.25kg :C:C.

The place where I bought the 100mm 2.8 macro sells the 400mm 5.6L for $1547. This lens is recommended as the lens for photographing birds in flight.

Bob

[Harry72]

I don't understand why some pics are heavy on the bandwidth, whilst being comparatively small in size.

It depends on the detail of the picture, a highly detailed picture like Clubby's bird will use more data space than the same picture thats been blurred(detail removed... a jpeg trait).

[wheelinround]

It printed very well A4 Epson 915 Photostylis Glossy Paper


Bob uncle rang regarding the photo said its a treat a BIG THANK YOU :2tsup:

[clubbyr8]

Bob uncle rang regarding the photo said its a treat a BIG THANK YOU :2tsup:


Glad he liked it. Thank you for considering the photo was worthy of printing.

Bob

[wheelinround]

worthy try putting that up on a web site that earns you dollars Bob and you'll soon find out

its almost like the one off the old TV add can't reacll the TV it was selling but had the cat clawing at the screen.