Today I joined a trip organised by the University of Glamorgan Photography Department to Lacock Abbey in Wiltshire, home of William Henry Fox Talbot. I was lucky enough to borrow one of the Universities new Canon EOS 5D MarkII DSLRs for a few hours to have a bit of a play about and I have to say I am quite impressed by how much detail this camera records into its RAW file. I am still unsure of the necessity of over 21Mp, it just seems like overkill to me, unless you are going to be pulling off massive prints I don't think you would ever need quite this much resolution ... however, it is nice to play with!
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So I spent a few hours playing about with the camera and my 17-40L lens, unfortunately I had to hand the camera back, will have to add it to my shopping list! It was quite an enjoyable trip overall, even if it did start to rain towards the end, I think I may have to return here at some point, maybe in the winter when there is likely to be less tourists about as they kept getting in my shots!
Canon EOS 5D MkII | Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM @ 17mm | 1/4 sec | f/16 | ISO 100
Canon EOS 40 D | Canon EF 70-200mm f/4L USM @ 200mm | 1/100 th sec | f/4 | ISO 100
Thursday, 14 May 2009
Lacock Abbey Trip
above: Canon EOS 5D MkII | Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM @ 17mm | Cokin X-Pro 0.9 ND Grad | 1/20 th sec | f/16 | ISO 100
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Excellent Rob - Keep it going as a personal diary as well as a blog. Interesting to see your interpretation of the place. I agree re the people, just too many there, trouble is I think it shuts up over the winter, perhaps more rain is what we needed!!
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Yes, maybe more rain and some umbrellas for the cameras! :D
ReplyDeleteI must remember to visit this blog more often, some excellent photos here Rob!
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