my new cam rocks (pics)

[Maverick2002]

Just wanted to say thanks for some final input from the people here before I bought my Canon G3 (for school and also for my site). I'm pretty amateur but here are a few of the pics I took with the camera. The feature list is dizzying. So far I'm very impressed.

 

[arod]

you got this kickass camera and the best picture you can find is water drops? come on get us some high quality hottie pics.

 

[edro]

Sweet! They look so "saturated" with color, not dull like a lot of pics I take. I can't wait till I get one. I still don't know if I want the G3 or the G5 though...

 

[Aharami]

how much did u buy it for? nice pics btw

 

[RossMAN]

Wow you're hosted on http://www.servint.com ???

How did you manage to swing that? Awesome web host.

 

[Maverick2002]

Yea these are only medium settings too (full rez but about midrange quality so they can stay under 1mb, the RAW images are about 4mb each and I only have a 32mb CF card atm). Plus I'm not very good (still learning the manual settings). It doesn't seem like a good point & shoot camera (the autofocus takes a while to work) but the aperture and shutter priority settings are a blessing.

Yes I'm hosted by ServInt. They're incredible, at least they have been for the past 10 months or so. I make enough to cover the monthly hosting fees. Plus I signed up on a special last year so I got a very decent discount in comparsion to the actual listed price for our setup.

 

[sillymofo]

Originally posted by: arod
you got this kickass camera and the best picture you can find is water drops? come on get us some high quality hottie pics.

and would some one teach him about photochoppe.

 

[Maverick2002]

RE the photoshop I'm pretty skilled at using the program but this was for a school assignment and he wanted uncropped/unaltered images.

 

[sillymofo]

Originally posted by: Maverick2002
RE the photoshop I'm pretty skilled at using the program but this was for a school assignment and he wanted uncropped/unaltered images.

but at least you coulda cropped it for us.

 

[ProviaFan]

Originally posted by: cr4zymofo

Originally posted by: Maverick2002
RE the photoshop I'm pretty skilled at using the program but this was for a school assignment and he wanted uncropped/unaltered images.

but at least you coulda cropped it for us.

No, it's "resize" not "crop," and it's something that's very important for those of us who are afflicted with the terrible plague also known in some parts of the world as "dial-up."

FWIW, nice technical ability, but some of the images are busy, and could have better composition (I assume this was not part of the particular assignment?).

 

[Eli]

You can increase the fstop(I think that's what it's called) to increase DOF(I think). In other words, bring the whole frame into focus.

<-- still doesen't have a camera, but has been doing a lot of research.

Let's see if I remember right .. lol

Oh, btw.. when I first saw this thread, my first thought was.. "Cool, engine pics!"

 

[ProviaFan]

Originally posted by: Eli
You can increase the fstop(I think that's what it's called) to increase DOF(I think). In other words, bring the whole frame into focus.

<-- still doesen't have a camera, but has been doing a lot of research.

Let's see if I remember right .. lol

Yeah, that's pretty much right, but the terminology is confusing. The aperure stops down, the f-stop number goes up, and DOF increases. The aperture opens up, the f-stop number goes down, and the DOF decreases.

Depth Of Field is dependent on the distance that you are focusing at. Given a constant aperture, a closer distance will have a smaller DOF than a farther distance. Note that often when you're focusing at very close range, even a very small aperture will not give you much DOF. For example, a 1:1 macro lens on a SLR or DSLR will give around 1 mm of DOF at f2.8; stop down to f16 and you may not even get 2 cm.

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: jliechty

Originally posted by: Eli
You can increase the fstop(I think that's what it's called) to increase DOF(I think). In other words, bring the whole frame into focus.

<-- still doesen't have a camera, but has been doing a lot of research.

Let's see if I remember right .. lol

Yeah, that's pretty much right, but the terminology is confusing. The aperure stops down, the f-stop number goes up, and DOF increases. The aperture opens up, the f-stop number goes down, and the DOF decreases.

Depth Of Field is dependent on the distance that you are focusing at. Given a constant aperture, a closer distance will have a smaller DOF than a farther distance. Note that often when you're focusing at very close range, even a very small aperture will not give you much DOF. For example, a 1:1 macro lens on a SLR or DSLR will give around 1 mm of DOF at f2.8; stop down to f16 and you may not even get 2 cm.

Ahh. Cool. Thanks.

I'm slowly learning all this stuff on paper, in anticipation of my first camera..

I learn best with hands on experience, but book smarts does help for basic understanding.

 

[Eli]

What the hell could be causing all my DP's???

I don't see other people having this problem.. It happens every other post! :Q