{"id":1238,"date":"2011-01-24T11:44:49","date_gmt":"2011-01-24T10:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/t-machine.org\/?p=1238"},"modified":"2011-01-24T17:53:28","modified_gmt":"2011-01-24T16:53:28","slug":"how-good-is-canons-new-550d-with-old-cheap-lenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/2011\/01\/24\/how-good-is-canons-new-550d-with-old-cheap-lenses\/","title":{"rendered":"How good is Canon&#8217;s new 550D with old, cheap lenses?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pretty good (shot without tripod, a few days ago):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/t-machine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/5382187552_9e2555d526.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/t-machine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/5382187552_9e2555d526.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"5382187552_9e2555d526\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/t-machine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/5382187552_9e2555d526.jpg 500w, https:\/\/t-machine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/5382187552_9e2555d526-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/t-machine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/5382187552_9e2555d526-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Canon-75-300mm-4-0-5-6-Compatible-Filter\/dp\/B00004THCZ\/ref=sr_1_2?s=electronics&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1295865418&#038;sr=1-2\">this 10-year-old lens (70-300, no image stabilising or anything fancy)<\/a>. I wondered if my old (pretty cheap) lenses from my film camera would work OK with a brand new digital camera. Yes, although I get a lot of chromatic aberration at wide apertures, sadly.<\/p>\n<p>So far as I can tell (and dpreview.com seems to back this up), Canon is still the best manufacturer of digital cameras for low-light situations, bar none. Which covers an awful lot of the interesting photos out there. Although &#8230; in this image &#8230; the camera kept trying to expose for &#8220;space&#8221;, so even asking it to do a full -5 stops underexposure, the moon still whited-out. In the end, I had to go to fully manual (on Canon cameras, I&#8217;ve needed to do that fewer than 5 times in my life) and force each of: Exposure (1\/200), Aperture f\/9.0, ISO Speed 100. This is also the first time I can remember where I&#8217;ve &#8220;had&#8221; to manually change the ISO speed on a digital camera.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pretty good (shot without tripod, a few days ago): Using this 10-year-old lens (70-300, no image stabilising or anything fancy). I wondered if my old (pretty cheap) lenses from my film camera would work OK with a brand new digital camera. Yes, although I get a lot of chromatic aberration at wide apertures, sadly. So [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}