Show Your Snaps...January 2, 2023

stevet1 wrote:

Just for the heck of it, the other day, I went outside on a nice sunny day, put my camera in Auto and took a landscape photo.

The camera selected f/5.6 as the aperture. It made me wonder why.

I was surprised yesterday when comparing the three versions of the EF-S 18-135; per DxO's results each of them reaches max resolution at f/5.6, significantly dropping at f/8.

That goes against everything I've seen from my EF and EF-S zooms. Perhaps my personal rule with them of staying between f/8 and f/11 is in error.

I was just cautioned in another thread about overly heeding their results.

It's back to using the evidence of our own eyeballs, I'm afraid. 

30mm @ f/8

135mm @ f/9

24mm @ f/8

107mm @ f/13

I love the blue sky and sunshine.  The bright colors are excellent too.  I use that lens all of the time on one of my cameras.  It's interesting that the leaves are turning yellow in the last photo, with a capture date of today.  Where were these taken?

Digirame wrote:

I love the blue sky and sunshine. The bright colors are excellent too. I use that lens all of the time on one of my cameras. It's interesting that the leaves are turning yellow in the last photo, with a capture date of today. Where were these taken?

Please ignore the dates — they were recorded earlier today when I took “screenshots” of the images on my iPad while reviewing them on Google Photos.

Those photos were created last year in late summer and late autumn, at locations between Montreal and Ottawa, Canada.

That “kit” zoom lens is excellent throughout the range — and sharp, open or stopped down, to my eyes anyway.

Oh cool...I figured that was the reason....

But I had to say something; otherwise you all might have thought that I had fallen asleep while viewing all of your pictures.  You all got to make sure that I'm paying attention. LOL

It's so nice to see those bright green leaves; everything looks so fresh and nice.  Right now where I live in Oregon the tree branches and moss (or lichen) are coming down due to all the wind and rain we are getting.  The deciduous trees are so bare.  I complain that it's cold, but the temperatures are above freezing.

Every once in a while, I'll look at my summer photos too.  I'm already looking forward to longer and warmer days as we progress through the early parts of 2023.  I'll probably go back to California to visit this summer again.  It's fun to plan trips.

That red color is nice.  My newer Canon DSLR cameras equally show that red really well.  This is a JPEG straight out of the camera.

I was looking at my older Canon T2i (550D) and Canon T3i (600D) camera pictures too. The red colors were pretty nice too, a little better than I thought.  I thought the red flowers didn't come out quite like I saw them, but it's been so long that I can't remember for sure.

That looks great.

It's nice to see the beautiful flowers and plants.  I see you are in Florida.  Enjoy the warm weather.

It has been snowing heavily today, and some brave souls were riding bicycles.

No flowers where I live.

captured with iPhone camera