Name that camera gear! (Big pic enclosed)

[ddrueding]

Just for fun...

http://216.228.25.250:8081/camera.png


And for bonus points, what game is being played in the background :P

[Pradeep]

Firstly, anyone who uses .png to compress a full colour image must be f$$$$$$ crazy. My cellphone modem isn't that fast. :(

Anyway, looks like a Canon of some type with a Canon lens, perhaps a 400mm 2.8? Is that your gaming center in the background by any chance? Some kind of FPS I guess. Wolfenstein or BF19**? Back to the beer now.

[LunarMist]

It looks like a somewhat nasty, slow zoom, the 100-400 IS. Definitely it is not the lens of choice for most indoor work, so the scene is probably of a demonstration of some kind. I dunno about the body as so many Canons are similar. I does not look quite round enough for an EOS 1 series.

[e_dawg]

L-series lenses can never be truely nasty, can they? Although, you can never expect too much out of a zoom...

[ddrueding]

The lens is a 400mm, but the camera is digial...

[ddrueding]

And yes, that is my game center in the background. The game is COD.

[LunarMist]

The lens is definitely not the 400/5.6; it used the A tripod mount. The 100-400 IS would be at the wide end in that image, so maybe the answer should be ~100mm. What body is it?

e_dawg,

The L lenses range from exellent to only so-so, especially the zooms. The 100-400 is the worst Canon L lens I have owned, but is not the worst of the L lenses. The 35-350 is pretty bad at the long end for example. Some of the more mediocre lenses are acceptable on the lower resolution bodies with small sensors. For example, the 100-400 is fine for general use on a 1.6x body because the softer edges would not be in the frame. Even the center is not as sharp as a 400/2.8 II or 400/2.8 IS or even 300/2.8 IS + 1.4 TC.

[e_dawg]

35-350? Yikes. That sounds bad just looking at that 10:1 zoom ratio. I wouldn't expect something like that to be good throughout its range, and especially if not stopped down. I quite like zooms, myself, especially when you know what range they perform well in (I rarely need large apertures / shallow DOF). The worst, IMo, is a zoom that is mediocre throughout its range, which makes it unusable in any condition.

[ddrueding]

The body is a 10D with a 1Gb card, the lens is in fact a 100-400, and we were taking pictures of a motherbord in low light from ~5' away. I am not a camera guy (as you can tell from the pic above) but some of the results were quite impressive. I'll be trying to post more pics when I get the chance.

I've just got home for the first time in ~86 hours and am dying to get some sleep.