Canon 40D

[telectrix]

just acquired one, body only. sold as a non worker, won't power up. . with considerable help from geordie spark, picking it up for me and posting it on, had a fiddle with it and it sprang to life. happy days.

 

[tidyboiler]

just acquired one, body only. sold as a non worker, won't power up. . with considerable help from geordie spark, picking it up for me and posting it on, had a fiddle with it and it sprang to life. happy days.

Who's a jammy git then? :dita:

 

[telectrix]

celebrating with some.. :54:

 

[shanky887614]

good job

 

[telectrix]

taken this morning with the 40D, canon 35-105 f4.5 lens. poor depth of field. try harder next time.

 

[Geordie Spark]

Not a bad shot ............... for a beginner.

 

[ruston]

taken this morning with the 40D, canon 35-105 f4.5 lens. poor depth of field. try harder next time.

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It's a case of the subject matter being more important than the technical quality. Very nice picture.

 

[telectrix]

hell of a job to get her to sit. she doesn't like the camera and runs off and hides. i'd selected a 1/125th so the lens was pretty well wide open.

 

[ruston]

Aye , hard to photograph, by the time you set them up the moment has gone. takes forever. spontaneous shot are forgivable though lol. Lovely dog

Was that one of your original lenses from a previous cannon ?

 

[telectrix]

yep. EF lenses from the days of eos film cameras. i still have 3 of those film cameras. this was taken some years ago with eos 620. it's a mate of mine, legendary lonnie, using a wine glass to fret the guitar.

for some sztrange reason, it transferred to pc as a mirror image

 

[ruston]

I have two and a half minolta's . I bought a digital Fuji, paid a lot of money for it in it's day . fine when it was going , but didn't last long.
I did get some cracking images with it , but needing reading glasses knacked me with the menu for getting creative with it. I preferred the instinctive controls on my old film camera's.
I don't do much now, but I am tempted to get back into it now I have more time on my hands.

 

[telectrix]

duplicate post.

 

[ruston]

Cracking picture.
My first minolta was purely mechanical with a battery just for the light meter. I loved it ,weighed half a ton ,built like a tank. Sadly that's the one that is the half now.

 

[Geordie Spark]

yep. EF lenses from the days of eos film cameras. i still have 3 of those film cameras. this was taken some years ago with eos 620. it's a mate of mine, legendary lonnie,View attachment 27281 using a wine glass to fret the guitar.

for some sztrange reason, it transferred to pc as a mirror image

Doesn't matter ... he's playing it arse about bollox anyway.

Bloody southpaw!!!

 

[telectrix]

no he's not. in the original he's playing right handed. look at the keyboard logo.

 

[telectrix]

had a couple of beers to steady my hand now. here she is with her big sister ( the big sister is the small one) . nothing's ever right in this house.

 

[Geordie Spark]

That's betterer!!

 

[telectrix]

it's a damn site easier when they don't move. lol.

 

[Geordie Spark]

it's a damn site easier when they don't move. lol.

I've got a cracking night shot on my wall of the bridges over the Tyne that I took with my (I think) 350D and a Sigma 28 - 300 stuck on the end of it.


It was around the time I got my 30D so it may have been taken with that. I'm not sure.


I'll have to have a dig around & see if I can find the file & post it up for your amusement.

 

[telectrix]

you got bridges there now? what happened to the ferry?