[GALLERY] Timo's Photography

[Timo]

Timo, is it you who has the 400D (Since there are a few photographers on this site) ? If so, would you recommend it?

I'm looking to get a DSLR camera with a decent lens. Also, is the stock lens any good?

I'm just hoping the price will go down november-time =D

Definitely would recommend it - it was a great investment. This Siteis an excellent source of canon lens and equipment reviews, when it comes to choosing the lens you want to get. The stock lenses are OK at best, the twin lens kit I got was alright when I started out; until I realized that the lenses cost less that half of equivalent lenses and they're not as sharp (manual focusing is literally impossible with the 18-55mm). But they are cheap, and a good idea if you're not wanting to fork out $700+ (NZD, not sure what prices you'd get) for a new lens.

If you are looking for a comparison between different D-SLR cameras, D-Preview is a great resource.

Note that Canon doesn't allow you to clean the sensor inside the camera yourself, but Nikon and other brands allow you to use Eclipse Swabs. This saves you time, and you can get 10 swabs+cleaning fluid for around about the same price as it would cost you to send it off to Canon. In the long run you'll eventually have a bit of dust ending up on the sensor, no matter how careful you are.

[SuperSunny]

Doesn't the 400D have the auto sensor cleaner?

[Timo]

Yeah it does - but for me it seems i've got some hard bits of dust that just don't want to move. You can give the camera a baseline for the dust by taking a photo of a white image too; so when you take pictures it automatically gets rid of the dust. But i'd rather get rid of the dust sitting on the sensor apposed to just going around it.

[Reaper Man]

It's all good, I'm not really a fan of auto focus anyhow, I mainly do manual on the stock. I hope to find it cheap, I have a buddy who found his for about a 100. It works great.

They are cheap, I got mine for about $80US (~$650HK)

[Timo]

When you see it...






Stick insects are ugly bastards.

Was walking past my car when I saw what looked like a stick poking out of the mud-guard area of the back tire, and ended up pulling it out =x Hate to know how far I drove with it around 10-15cm above my back wheel.

[Reaper Man]

Loal, nice one Timo.

[Timo]

A bit of new content . Went to see my brother over the weekend and stopped in the gorge that lies between my home town (Gisborne) and the rest of the world.

[Heathen]

REALLY amazing stuff.

[Corndogman]

Why do the first two look like paintings? Are they actually or is it just me and I'm crazy?

[Hunter]

They all look amazing, how much your camera cost? Because it seems really expensive because the quality of the pictures is HD lol.