Canon EF 100mm f2.8 Macro

[Abel]

I just picked up this lens and I must say I LOVE IT! this thing has opened up a whole new world of photography for me.

My other lens have a long minimum focus distance, about 6ft for example on my EF 70-200 f2.8 L. This 100mm lens can focus while being about 6" away from the subject. That's give me so much more to work with...




I know I will have a blast with this lens in the near future!

[swanny338]

nice shot and nice lens.. have fun with it

[Abel]

thanks for stopping by! i need to get my 17-40L back on my camera so i can get some more wide angle shots...

with it getting dark by the time i get home i pretty much forced to shoot my daily photos indoors :(

oh well... i think i feel a field trip coming up this weekend.

[swanny338]

Originally Posted by Abel

thanks for stopping by! i need to get my 17-40L back on my camera so i can get some more wide angle shots...

with it getting dark by the time i get home i pretty much forced to shoot my daily photos indoors :(

oh well... i think i feel a field trip coming up this weekend.

I know how that feels, with school and all the assignments i get for newspaper shooting sports, I never get to go shoot and do my own thing... yes i love sports but, I have shot at least 20 Volleyball games since school started. NOw with Basketball coming i will probably be doin a good amount of that, I have also shot a couple football games but thats hard for me to do cause i am in band

anyways, I need to go downtown this weekend and shoot, though it wont happen, have a ton of stuff to do, darn

[Mongo]

Neat shot Abel... Only problem is you can see your ugly mug in it...lol


Where you thinking about heading for your field trip? If the weather is nice I may try and hit the hill country on sunday and see what I can find. Been awhile since I just went out and shot pictures.

[Steelsun]

Neat shot: kind of a christmas Escher.

[Abel]

exactly! that was my inspiration!

how do u like that crystalvue Lx? i had a LX8 for my canon G5 but never used it because i upgrade to a 10d shortly after

[mattchow]

nice photo, where in houston are you? im in sugar land. ive been shooting exclusively cars, but need to get into other things.

[Abel]

NW / W Side

hey there shooting cars huh... very cool.

you gonna make it to the Autorama this weekend? I'm thinking about it

[swanny338]

i am also thinking about goin to autoramma at some point this weekend, mainly for the BMX show

[Abel]

yeah i think the BMX show qould be very cool to see...

hopefully my schedule works out so that we can make the trip there...

Also, theres a huge BMX dirt track on the north side of town somewhere that holds racs on saturdays, i need to find out where that is. I think its right next to that 3 Palms Sports Complex that I posted about in the Houston forum.

I know theres another track in Pearland as well...

I'll dig up some info

[swanny338]

make sure ya post it

:D

[Steelsun]

Originally Posted by Abel

exactly! that was my inspiration!

how do u like that crystalvue Lx? i had a LX8 for my canon G5 but never used it because i upgrade to a 10d shortly after

It's OK in that it is better than nothing, but it is a bit soft, VERY hard to get in good focus, and does have some corner/edge CA and fuzz. But for a P&S camera, it's really the only option to get an extra 6x or so. It comes in handy for fixed objects (like a gargoyle on a church), but not so good for a moving object (like birds). And it's heavy (I lugged it around DC for 4 days this summer - yikes).

[Abel]

wow i bet that was a pain to carry around. thats the one thing i didnt like about it was i had to manually focus the lens by using the lcd instead of my viewfinder. ice seen some great images with it but i thought it would be a bit too difficult for me to mess with at the time..

[mattchow]

abel did you ever compare this 100mm macro vs the 50mm macro with lifesize converter?