topic Re: Zooming issues in EOS DSLR & Mirrorless Cameras

Zooming issues

Nel2009 — Wed, 30 Dec 2020 01:10:40 GMT

We are having trouble with zooming in on items. We zoom in. When we look at the picture in the view screen. It looks far away. What do we need to do to the camera to get closeups. New to this as you can tell. Lol We take the picture and it looks far away in viewer We Have a Rebel T100 D3000

Re: Zooming issues

jrhoffman75 — Wed, 30 Dec 2020 01:43:26 GMT

I think I understand what you are asking.

What you will get in the file when you take a photo is what you see when you look through the eyepiece viewfinder.

When you enlarge the image on the rear LCD screen you are not zooming in, you are just enlarging the image. It doesn't work like a smartphone.

Re: Zooming issues

ebiggs1 — Wed, 30 Dec 2020 16:11:40 GMT

"We zoom in. When we look at the picture in the view screen. It looks far away. ... We take the picture and it looks far away in viewer"

This is a common issue when folks first come to a DSLR and are used to how a iphone works.

OK first things first here. You are looking at the LCD screen on the back of the camera? And, you zoom that LCD screen? If that is true it is not the same as you are used to on your iphone. But one further question, did you get the standard kit lens with your T7? It is a 18-55mm zoom lens. Yes, no? You need to be zooming the lens. Not the camera. You notice it has a zoom collar on it. Wherever that is set is how your picture will look.

Try using the viewfinder, the smaller window towards the top of the T7 and zoom that ring on the lens. Now you should see the subject enlarge or reduce as you zoom in and out.

BTW, make sure the AF/MF switch on the lens is set to AF before you take any shots.

Re: Zooming issues

Nel2009 — Wed, 30 Dec 2020 21:02:45 GMT

She has done both (LCD screen and through eye piece) Also zoomed just lens and also zoomed camera and the same thing happened. Yes the lens kit came with it. Also did both AF and MF. The camera is a Rebel T100 not a 7

Re: Zooming issues

Waddizzle — Wed, 30 Dec 2020 22:12:28 GMT

@Nel2009 wrote:
She has done both (LCD screen and through eye piece) Also zoomed just lens and also zoomed camera and the same thing happened. Yes the lens kit came with it. Also did both AF and MF. The camera is a Rebel T100 not a 7

If you are talking about this camera at the link below....

https://www.usa.canon.com/internet/portal/us/home/support/details/cameras/eos-dslr-and-mirrorless-cameras/dslr/t100-body

...that camera does not have electronic zoom for capturing photos. The only "zoom" is the optical zoom range of the lens mounted on the camera body. The rear screen can "magnify" the image for viewing and focusing, but not for image capture.

Re: Zooming issues

ebiggs1 — Thu, 31 Dec 2020 15:50:46 GMT

"Also zoomed just lens and also zoomed camera and the same thing happened."

That is impossible! Sorry, but the camera will record exactly what the lens sees. The only light that gets to the camera's sensor has to come through the lens. The only possible answer is the lens is broken if you zoom it and the picture does not change.

You can not zoom the LCD screen. It is for the photographer info and settings control. It does not take or make the photo.

"The camera is a Rebel T100 not a 7"

You have this camera? The Canon EOS Rebel T100 Digital SLR Camera with 18-55mm Lens Kit. Yes, no?

Canon EOS Rebel T100 Digital SLR is very similar to its sister, the T7. We need to be talking the right camera.

Here is the test. First rest the camera to default settings in the menus. Clear all settings and all custom settings. Very important to do this first. Now set it to P mode. Make sure it is P and not any other. Set ISO to 200 and your WB to daylight.

The camera set on One shot. Make sure the lens switch is on AF and not MF. Now on a nice day go outside and take some random shots some with vertical lines in them like a fence or tree or building, etc. Do not touch the focus ring! But do use the zoom ring, in and out on various shots. You should have all different zoomed in and out photos. All in good exposure. If you don't after doing this test exactly as I have laid it out the, camera and or lens is broken.

On this lens it is extremely important you never touch the focus ring while the lens is in the AF mode. Especially while it is focusing.

Re: Zooming issues

Nel2009 — Thu, 31 Dec 2020 16:15:35 GMT

Yes We have the Rebel T100 3000d kit.

Re: Zooming issues

ebiggs1 — Thu, 31 Dec 2020 16:16:45 GMT

"Yes the lens kit came with it."

I see you had another thread on this forum with nearly the same issue. What is it you expect from your gear? What you have will never zoom in on things that are very far away I.E. the Moon. Not even much closer things like a bird. The very reason there is a DSLR is the ability to swap out and change the lens to a more appropriate lens. A super telephoto for a Moon shot as an example.

The standard kit lens that comes with you kit is for normal everyday things like family and scenery, events, etc. Do my test.

Re: Zooming issues

ProspectVillela — Thu, 11 Feb 2021 17:47:44 GMT

@Nel2009 wrote:

We are having trouble with zooming in on items. We zoom in. When we look at the picture in the view screen. It looks far away. What do we need to do to the camera to get closeups. New to this as you can tell. Lol We take the picture and it looks far away in viewer We Have a Rebel T100 D3000

Is it a defect in the camera or inexperience of the operator?

Re: Zooming issues

kvbarkley — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 14:29:59 GMT

"Is it a defect in the camera or inexperience of the operator? "

Neither, it is a physical limitation of the camera which can be easily (though not necessarily cheaply!) remedied by buying a telephoto zoom lens.

Re: Zooming issues

wq9nsc — Wed, 10 Feb 2021 17:49:19 GMT

As KV stated, you need a longer lens (or in some cases you can use your feet to zoom by moving in far closer with the lens you have).

Both of these soccer photos were from nearly identical positions on the sideline. The first was shot just before the game with a 70-200 f2.8 zoom at the 78mm setting. The second was using my second camera with a 300mm f2.8 prime. For football and some soccer fields I go with a 400mm f2.8.

BUT if you can get proper placement to whatever subject you are photographing, then a wider angle lens can get some great captures. You can't run closer to the moon but proper positioning, even if it sometimes awkward or inconvenient, will let you get the most from your current camera/lens combination.

Rodger

Re: Zooming issues

kvbarkley — Wed, 10 Feb 2021 19:42:28 GMT

Actually, I mispoke, it is not a limitaiton of the *camera* but a limitation of the *lens*. (or *Camera+Lens*)

Re: Zooming issues

wq9nsc — Wed, 10 Feb 2021 20:13:00 GMT

I think your full sentece was very clear: that the problem could be addressed by adding a telephoto lens.

It was far more clear than some of the information poorly conveyed in some of the Canon user manuals.

Rodger

Re: Zooming issues

ebiggs1 — Thu, 11 Feb 2021 15:53:54 GMT

Rodger that second shot is priceless!

Besides zooming with your feet you can also "zoom" with your computer. Its called cropping.

Re: Zooming issues

wq9nsc — Thu, 11 Feb 2021 23:37:09 GMT

Thank you Ernie!

That is a local Catholic high school team and I loved shooting that home opener. It is a great group of kids and a reminder of how much fun sports are when played in the right environment.

I would love to be able to clone their coach. He coaches both their boys and girls teams and I met him Anna's freshman year when he asked me after the game if Anna and I would join him that summer because he would like Anna to work out with a graduating senior he was prepping for college level soccer. Anna had been following his forward on social media for several years and she was overjoyed to have a chance to learn alongside her. We both spent a lot of wonderful evenings at his school that summer and learned an incredible amount and had great fun. Coach Reza had been on the Iranian junior national team before the revolution and would have been on the national team his next year but he escaped during the revolution and played his college soccer at Iowa before coaching at several universities. He loves soccer and started coaching high school during his semi-retirement.

The only problem I had with the summer workout program was he absolutely refused to let me pay him for the lessons but I convinced him to let me shoot his boy's home opener in return. The parents loved having good photos of their players in action for the first time and I got a lot of nice thank you cards and notes. It probably also smoothed things over with his AD because the parents appreciation for the photos made up for his head coach working with a competing athlete. In addition to having incredible soccer knowledge, he has a great coaching personality. The closest he comes to anger during a game is when a player makes a really bad move and you will hear Reza yell, "Are you KIDDING me?". Late in that game, the opposing keeper slipped and fell but his forward somehow missed an easy shot from maybe 5 yards out. Coach Reza yells are you kidding me and one of the players on the bench immediately responds, No coach, he wasn't kidding. He was serious about missing that shot. Coach Reza and the entire bench collapsed in laughter. He know how to prep and motivate players and he also understands what is important in life and what isn't. The students learn a lot more than just soccer from him.

Those summer workouts have now become a regular activity and even during COVID we managed to get together last summer and Anna learned some new offensive moves and helped prepare a new group of keepers for Central. It is nice having the girls build bonds between schools rather than the animosity that often shows up even at the high school level and Anna has made a lot of new friends. Sadly some of the parents don't get it, I shot the football game versus Central last year (they won a close match) and after the game several of the Central students stopped us to talk on the way out and we got some really ugly glares from parent's of Anna's classmates for consorting with the enemy. But the other students were fine proving that about some things teenagers are far more adult and civilized than their parents.

Rodger