canon advice please [Archive]

IAN M

11-09-08, 20:42

hi guys

i have just purchased a canon 400d and think its awesome however the shots i took in RAW mode and saved to my SD memory card do not show up as being on the card in the printer shop any ideas why not?

is this the best mode to shoot in ?

sorry but i am very novice and want to learn

i understand that to zoom in on a certain section from a distance i need to use say a 70-200mm lens ?

i have the standard 18-55mm lens with mine

any advice please

heres some pics i took recently

http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm162/IanMulgrew/cars/038.jpg

http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm162/IanMulgrew/cars/006.jpg

http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm162/IanMulgrew/cars/048.jpg

MrFish

11-09-08, 21:11

By printer shop do you mean you have taken them to a shop for printing, or is printer shop a software application on your PC, either way it will be because the software does not recognise the CR2 file format that the raw files are in.

It may be better if you keep to jpg for now whilst learning about the camera and its functions, as using raw makes things a bit more difficult since you get issues with software recognising them, and they have to be manipulated in software to get things like white balance corrected, with jpg's this is done by the camera for you.

IAN M

11-09-08, 21:33

thanks for that advice

what is/are macro shots ?

what lens types are for what shooting ?

cheers

kneival

11-09-08, 22:04

Just incase you didnt know but RAW is only captured in manual modes, not in automatic (green square).
HTH.

IAN M

11-09-08, 23:10

yes i had been using the camera in P mode and adjusted the settings to contiuous shoot and light settings amongst others

what i dont know is what macro shots or tele- something (lol) shots are ?

can anybody advise me on this ?

what else might i need to know ?

cheers

GSXRnutter

11-09-08, 23:16

IAN M

11-09-08, 23:51

Sorry to hijack, but does anyone know the last date to get the money back offers in for canon products? I bought a 400d a while back,when it had £50 cashback, and me being the forgetfull type, have forgot all about it until I read Ians thread.

not sure i know the 450 still has cash back offer on it

btw how do you find the camera and what do you shoot and with what lens/es?

cheers

dickwilly

12-09-08, 00:03

Hi Ian,

Macro shots are generally just close upshots, you could narrow this down but in most day to day terms macro is just a close up shot.

Telephoto lenses have a long focal length, meaning distant object appear larger than to the human eye - bird spotting, sport shots etc.

I'd suggest keeping to the P mode (as above keeping to jpg) for a while and mess around with the ISO and White balance settings and see how it affect the images paying note to shutter speed and aperture values. I did this for some time now take most of my tank shots in fully automatic mode so i can balance out shutter speed and depth of field. That the best thing with digital if you get crap shots - who cares just delete em, great for experimenting.

I bought myself a "how too" guide book for my 350d off amazon, which really helped me actually understand what the different settings do and how they affect images. MUCH more useful than the instruction manual.
I'd stick with the kit lens for now, its not the best but is ok as a start, then when you decide what you want from a new lens shop around to find what you want.

Hope this helps

GSXRnutter

12-09-08, 01:21

btw how do you find the camera and what do you shoot and with what lens/es?

cheers

I think the camera is ace, coming from point and shoot, I took it on holiday with me, was a little worried about doing that, but did it anyway, glad I did, never ever have I had such great shots, The best to date is one I got of my daughters, the baby, was in her baby walker thing, and our other daughter was stood behind and over her, I just happen to be playing with my new toy, and got a great shot, its now on canvas, in our home, the kids 2 nans and great nans, the lens for that shot was the standard one, the only other lens I have is the tamron tele 200mm one that was on offer at the time.
But I really want one of the macro lens people on UR use to get really detailed lps and sps coral close ups, anyone out there give us a pointer??

MrFish

12-09-08, 01:45

what is/are macro shots ?

cheers

Close ups using a macro lens

Sorry to hijack, but does anyone know the last date to get the money back offers in for canon products? I bought a 400d a while back,when it had £50 cashback, and me being the forgetfull type, have forgot all about it until I read Ians thread.

The cashback offers change so you will need to look at the canon site to see what the current offer is.

But I really want one of the macro lens people on UR use to get really detailed lps and sps coral close ups, anyone out there give us a pointer??

Tamron 90mm macro or Canon 100mm macro

GSXRnutter

12-09-08, 01:48

Cheers Dave,be off this weekend to buy some erm.....................nothing darling just going to the garage to fill the car up, is what my statement to the boss indoors will be!!!

IAN M

12-09-08, 12:22

lol cheers guys for the heads up

dickwilly i have not forgot and will see you this week i promise

cheers

Paul-H

12-09-08, 13:17

Sorry to hijack, but does anyone know the last date to get the money back offers in for canon products? I bought a 400d a while back,when it had £50 cashback, and me being the forgetfull type, have forgot all about it until I read Ians thread.

I just bought a 40D and the sales ticket in Jessups had the closing date as early september, which was about a week before I bought the camera.

Paul

Paul-H

12-09-08, 13:19

Just incase you didnt know but RAW is only captured in manual modes, not in automatic (green square).
HTH.

RAW is camptured in most Automatic modes P, Av, Tv plus others, green square (wife mode) is the only mode its not.

Paul-H

12-09-08, 13:22

Back on topic

When shooting in RAW mode you will need a special RAW mode Viewer software or RAW plug-in for you favorite software program.

Look on the discs that came with the camera, it should have zoombrowser which will show the RAW files on your SD Card.

Paul

Nath

15-09-08, 11:21

There's also a plug-in for XP/Vista to allow you to view them directly from disk.

Canon Photo Professional also comes on those disks. I'd recommend this as well as it offers a lot of the post processing tools you'll need.