Bit of Help Pleases

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Hi guys

I have a 350D and one of my lens is a Quantaray 70-300mm 1.4-5.6 Tele Macro ,what I was going to ask is this any good for take long shot Pictures of Aircraft when I look through the camera with the lens on, Item seems to be not any closer .

Am I doing something wrong or is it the wrong lens for taking Pictures of Aircraft at long Distance

Any Help be Great

Subject: Re: Bit of Help Pleases 2009-05-24, 10:49

Is the "Quantaray" digital ?
Or is it a lens from an old SLR ?

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Maybe old SLR It has Normal and on macro 180-300 what every that means

The other Lens Tamron 28-200 AF

What you think mate

Subject: Re: Bit of Help Pleases 2009-05-24, 11:02

300mm should be fine for aircraft. I would assume the 300mm is for a film SLR camera without the 1.6x crop on a DSLR, as I havnt seen any lenses where the focal length is marked taking into consideration the crop factor. Perhaps you could post some sample images of random things, let us try and gauge the zoom of the lens?

Ben

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Ok taken with tamron 28-200 with 2x teleplus

Dont no if it look any good

Any help for a new Guy Please

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I assume by 2 x teleplus you mean a teleconverter? If so I would stop using that straight away as it will seriously effect your photo quality. When you twist the lens to zoom does the image not get any bigger?

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Hi mate yes a little bit

The other one i have is a Quantaray autofocus 70-300 F4-5.6 is this any Better ?

Cheers

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if im honest ive never heard of a Quantaray lens, so couldnt really comment on how good the quality is. What actual camera settings do you shoot on? The image should still be alot more in focus than that no matter what lens you use

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incidently ive just done a google search for you and found this:

http://www.fixya.com/support/t144120-canon_error_codes

Looks like your Quantaray may cause you some problems! If you can, your best bet would be to buy either a canon 70-300mm mkIII usm or a sigma 70-300mm APO (must be the APO version) both are ideal starter lenses while you get used to finding your way round the camera.

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could you recommend any settings for me to try tomorrow please

cheers

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lincs wrote:: could you recommend any settings for me to try tomorrow please

cheers

AV mode and set to F8.

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vulcan558 wrote:

lincs wrote:: could you recommend any settings for me to try tomorrow please

cheers

AV mode and set to F8.

Sorry, only just seen this Embarassed

As Rich has said for jets:

AV mode, F8, iso 200, AWB (automatic white balance) or the "cloud" setting

for prop aircraft:

TV mode, 320th or 250th of a second (shutter speed) for helicopters change the speed to 160th of a second.

Hope that helps Cheers

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Big Thankyou for the help guys

I will report back When I have tried out the new settings.

Cheers

If there is anything else I need to No I would be Grateful Smile

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Just practice as much as possible. Also try and keep the sun behind you, shooting in to the sun is never a good idea unless you dont have a choice. Its worth learning how to use photo editing software like photoshop. If you dont have photoshop there is a list of some good free image editors in this thread:

http://fightercontrol.forumotion.com/photography-questions-f4/editing-software-t9325.htm

Finally, dont be afraid to ask for advice, we all start somewhere! Laughing