08-02-2011, 09:38 AM
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Originally Posted by Nick911sc
Well, if you want to get an idea of crop vs full frame think of it this way. Generally speaking the crop factor is 1.6 times. So if you're shooting with the canon kit lens at 18mm that would be equivalent to a full frame camera shooting at roughly 28mm. So the full frame gets a much wider shot than the crop camera without having to have a super wide lens in terms of the mm.
I own a tamron 17-50mm 2.8 and I love it to death as far as zooms go. Sharp as a tack.
But if I were you and I'm assuming you're using the 18-55 kit lens, I'd probably be shooting it at 18mm F/5.6 and then adjust the shot accordingly by moving backwards and forwards instead of zooming. Standing closer with a wider angle will get you way better pictures for cars than zooming into the car further back.
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thanks for the info...  i think i need to study more about full frame lens. not that im going to be buying anything i just want to learn. 
yah, i really like the 18-20mm but depending on how close i am to the car it would put too much emphasis on the center like a fisheye look. in some shots i prefer that, in some shots the image is too distorted as far as straight/veriticle lines.
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Originally Posted by Nick911sc
I don't claim to be a pro at car photography, because to be honest it's one of the areas I spend the least amount of time. I took these at a local car show. I don't exactly remember the settings off the top of my head, but I'm sure they were at 17mm and F/4(wide open being 2.8). I just had them uploaded on facebook, straight out of camera with no editing, so a lot of the quality was sucked out of them by that god awful site.
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yah your shots with F/5.6 - 8 looks sharp. ive been real careful not to shake the camera but using a wider apeture (faster shutter) would net me less blurry images for sure... im trying to figure out if my apeture setting is causing my slight blurr or me shacking the camera. 
so my other question was about focus point. where exactly are you focusing on your car images at f/5.6-f/8? do you take the center plane of the car or do you aim at the headlights or middle of hood, or emblem, or ... (?) im a pretty confused kenchan.. 
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