I thought I'd re-up this blog.
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Richards Pipit
Date: 27/08/2003 Model: Canon EOS-D60 Lens (600f4): 250 ISO: Aperture: 4.5 Shutter: 1/500 Exp. Comp.-0.7 Program: Aperture Priority Focus Mode: AI Servo AF |
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| Wilson's Petrel At Sea Isles of Scilly Model: Canon EOS-1D Mark II Lens (400f4 Do) |
As I've just bid on one of canon ancient cameras that I use to own over twenty years ago I've bid £10.00 on a Canon D60 6.3Mb. I paid in 2002 £1.600+ for the camera, but my reason for the re-up is can you tell the difference between 6Mb and 24+mb?
So I didn't win the item on eBay, it sold for £15.00, but I have won/purchased on eBay a Canon 30d 8.2 MB ill
A twenty-year review of my ancient Canon EOS Digital Cameras
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| Blyth's Pipit Isles of Scilly |
It's something that I've been planning to do. A review of my Canon Digital cameras and the image quality. So make your mind up and draw your conclusions.
There are lots of photos to look back on from my archive of images from around the globe. To be honest, my camera equipment is now showing its age, it's a bit like me getting old and creaky and banging on a bit.
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| Red-Throated Diver Of |
Date: 27/08/2005
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Porth Hellick
Isles of Scilly
Date: 02/08/2003Model: Canon EOS D60 Canon Lens (:300f4) and ISO: 100 Aperture: 7.1 Shutter: 1/400 Exp. Comp.:-.3Program: Aperture Priority Focus Mode: One-Shot AF
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| Gannet At Sea Isles of Scilly |
You'd think with the advances made In digital SLR photography and Mirrorless cameras, megapixels, sensors, autofocus, lens optics, screens resolutions, and so on, you'd be thinking there'd be a massive improvement, in image quality. There has been in certain areas, an improvement, flip out, rotating screen and resolution, autofocus speeds, operating system, menus etc?
I'm now starting to feel, a bit of a photography dinosaur, now after 50 years of photography, using a variety of different formats 35mm, 6cm x 6cm square images on 120, 126mm, Slides, and print film, Polaroid's, medium format, Hasselblad's etc and finally Canon EOS Digital.
Steve Young from Birdwatch Magazine ( my amigo) said back in the day, digital photography, it's never gonna catch on. In those days we'd sell prints to birders of rare birds, we've never let him forget what he said about it. Digital photography and how it is now mainstream.
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| Short-billed Dowitcher Isles of Scilly |
I owned full-frame cameras that we're at the time was the very best you could get, I have other types that could rattle off 10 frames a second, which I rarely used the high frame rate, which would occasionally frighten off the bloody bird. That's a good thing about mirrorless no shutter noise, I've almost always had the latest high-end cameras from Canon. But for me at this moment in time, I seem to be reverting backwards in time. All I'm using the camera and lens for is just to record what I've seen, I guess that's what most bird photographers do?
Razorbill
Isles of ScillyDate: 16/06/2004Model: Canon EOS D60 Lens (300f4): 300 ISO: 200 Aperture: 5 Shutter: 1/2500Exp. Comp.: -0.7 Program: Aperture Priority Focus Mode: AI Servo AF
I've never really felt the need to use all those bells and whistles that we're on offer in the sub-menus. I'm a bit of an instinctive photographer, a single shot at a time, when everything looks right, I Press the shutter
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| Black-capped Petrel Off Auckland New Zealand |
But can I justify spending another £3.500+ on yet another Digital camera? for my very low-resolution Birding Costa Blanca blogs.
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| White Chinned Petrel |
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| Arctic Tern. At Sea South Atlantic. |
I don't think I'll be winning any more awards for my type of photography as nowadays as it's mostly from a car or a hide. I'm not getting down and dirty for a bird's eye view, I find it hard just getting down there never mind getting up nowadays. I'm not supplying rarity bird images for publishing and probably not reaching the minimum requirements needed, for publications.
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Cream coloured Courser Isles of Scilly Date: 13/10/2004 Model: Canon EOS-1D Mark II Lens (600): ISO: 100 Aperture: 8 Shutter: 1/500 Exp. Comp -0.3 Program: Aperture Priority Focus Mode: One-Shot AF |
My good friend and amigo Hadoram Shirihai, who's is the most brilliant photographer /writer/ researcher said to me this. .... His camera and lens is just a tool to help his research, which will forever wind me up no end, because of the fantastic photographs he takes. And the camera for him was just like a brush is to a painter/artist.
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Montague's Harrier Extremadura Spain |
My question is this?
Can you see any difference between any of these photos taken with my various ancient relic Canon Digital Cameras close to the top is a photo of a Semipalmated Sandpiper is taken with a mere 6.3 megapixel D60 but it doesn't look any worse or any better than the Canon 760D 25 + megapixel Alpine Accentor photo? Most images were taken canon L lenses
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Great Spotted Cuckoo GuadalentÃn Spain Date: 17/04/2018 Model: Canon EOS 5D full-frame Lens (740) ISO: 100 Aperture: 7.1 Shutter: 1/800 Exp. Comp.: -0.7 Program: Aperture Priority Focus Mode: One-ShotAF |
I'm I going mad?
Honestly, I'm not seeing any major difference in images quality? considering the difference in pixels size, density, crop sensors, and full-frame, and very little difference between the cameras over the last twenty years of research and development.
I must be missing something?
I get it, that more pixels make bigger enlargements and finer detail possible, but do we need a 2 foot high Alpine Accentor photo?
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| Alpine Accentor Pyrenees Spain Date: 19/06/2017 Model: Canon EOS 760D Lens (600F4) ISO: 400 Aperture: 7.1 Shutter: 1/2000 Exp. Comp.: -0.3 Program: Aperture Priority Focus Mode: One-ShotAF |
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Wilson Snipe Isles of Scilly Date: 23/10/2007 Model: Canon EOS-1D Mark II Lens ( 600F4) ISO: 100 Aperture: 8 Shutter: 1/32 Exp. Comp.: -1.0 Program: Aperture Priority Focus Mode: One-Shot AF |
All images processed in the latest Adobe Camera RAW, only basic level's and sharpening applied, little or no noise reduction applied
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| Pied Wheatear Isles of Scilly |
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| Desert Wheatear Isles of Scilly |
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| American Golden-Plover Tresco Isles of Scilly |
Buff-breasted Sandpiper
St Agnes
Isles of Scilly
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| Royal Tern Cuba |
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Short-tailed Albatross Chichijima Northern Pacific Date: 01/05/2008 Model: Canon EOS 40D Lens (400f5.6) 400 ISO: 125 Aperture: 6.3 Shutter: 1/1000 Program: Aperture Priority Focus Mode: AI Servo AF |
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| KaguNew Caledonia South Pacific |
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| King Penguin South Georgia South Atlantic |
The Canon D60 is a bit of a relic at only 6.3 megapixels it's a bit slow autofocusing using a telephoto lens and challenging for seabird photography, but I've used it and done it and the results are fine. I've seen it for sale on eBay as low as 99p in working order with a lens attached, I think I paid about £1.600
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| Southern Royal Albatross Kaikoura New Zealand 1/11/2003 |
below is my list of the Canon cameras I've owned and or still have
EOS 550D/Rebel T2i/Kiss X4
EOS 650D/Rebel T4i/Kiss X6i
EOS 760D/Rebel T6s/8000D
EOS 5D
EOS-1D Mark II
EOS-1D Mark III
Used purchased EOS D30
EOS D60
EOS 10D
EOS 20D
EOS 40D
EOS 50D
Mirrorless Canon EOS M
hope you've enjoyed my review
Have a great day
Cheers BT
Thank you Bryan. That was was very interesting and informative.
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