Any D40 Canon owners out there ?

[vanillarum]

Hey gang. Thinking of purchasing this camera with a 100mm 2.8 lens for taking closeups of fish (little fish, mostly) in my aquarium. It would mostly be used for this as I have a Canon p & s (canon SD700IS) that I travel with. Any feedback on this ? Thanx. I mean 40D, thanx for pointing that out!

 

[ukcatfan]

Hey gang. Thinking of purchasing this camera with a 100mm 2.8 lens for taking closeups of fish (little fish, mostly) in my aquarium. It would mostly be used for this as I have a Canon p & s (canon SD700IS) that I travel with. Any feedback on this ? Thanx.

Are you sure that you mean Canon D40??? That is a very old model and I do not know if you could even find one. Did you possibly mean 40D? or Nikon D40?

Kevin

 

[Master Mason]

Hey gang. Thinking of purchasing this camera with a 100mm 2.8 lens for taking closeups of fish (little fish, mostly) in my aquarium. It would mostly be used for this as I have a Canon p & s (canon SD700IS) that I travel with. Any feedback on this ? Thanx.

You want to purchase about 2K worth of gear to take pictures of your fish, and carry a p&s when you travel???

 

[vanillarum]

Yep. I have a Canon SD700IS that takes great pictures. And it fits in my pocket !! Thanx.

 

[Groucho]

Does their 100mm lens have image stabilization? For photos like that, IS may be helpful, and that means going with a DSLR that has in-body stabilization that works with every lens, including 100mm macros.

(I just checked, and as I thought, no IS on the Canon 100mm macro.)

For macro work, you ideally want to use a tripod, which would mean that you'd turn off IS if you had it anyway, but if you're trying to shoot fish, you probably will have to handhold it.

 

[We-Luv-Disney]

Image stabilization wont help too much with moving fish. Your gonna want to get a fast prime lens, maybe like the 50mm 1.8 or 50mm 1.4. That combined with a high ISO will help catch your fish without blur. I do have the 100mm 2.8 macro and love it, but I have never used it for fish pictures.