Re: Has anybody figured out how to use ISO 100 in a 40D?

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Wolfgang Weisselberg wrote:
| Alienjones <Alienjones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
|> The subject line says it all.
|
| Yes, someone has.
|
|> The 40D I borrowed had a "kit" lens on it 17 - 85 IS, from memory. The
|> images it produced were pretty questionable IMO. The lens simply has no
|> resolving power past about 4 meters. Any people in a scene past about 5
|> or 6 meters have no detail and the CA was in every image where light and
|> dark met. I guess you can expect that with a $100 lens but these are not
|> cheap lenses at $700 AUD+.
|
| Sounds like too long exposures.
| Could be a monday lens, could be you mis-focussed
| consistently.
|
|> produces the same load of noise at high ISO as a 20 or 30D does.
|
| Smaller pixels, and you expect less noise? Go use a P&S with
| "oil painting" noise reduction.
|
|> Has any
|> owner of one of these cameras got any advise for the distraught owner
|> other than "dump it and buy a Nikon". I can't recall having these
|> problems with a 20D.
|
| Read the ... FINE ... manual.
|
|> Definitely can't use a flash at 1 meter or less distance.
|
| You know what ND filters are, or what bounce flash is, or how to
| turn the flash head up and how to extend the bounce card or wide
| angle screen a bit?

|>Serious advise sought here.
|
| Did you read the Nikon's manual?
|
| -Wolfgang

Exercising your fingers again are you Wolfgang? It must be lonely in
your room tonite.

WTF has a Nikon manual got to do with a Canon 40D camera?

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