My highly respected colleague, Rick made mention in another thread from someone who had paid a minimal sum for of a Rebel XT - to the effect: "In all honesty, its time to retire that device. 6.3MP. Your phone likely does more than it can. Much has happened with digital imaging in the last 20+ years."
Let me say off the bat that I don't disagree with Rick at all about the age and sophistication of the camera in question. I jokingly responded that having an almost brand-new 400D (Rebel Xti) of similar vintage that I would be at a loss to know what to do - it's just been sitting quietly in its box.
However, that got me wondering... What if I put a decent EF lens on the thing and challenge it to take the same kinds of animal portraits that I normally do with my R5 and R6 variant units? How would it fare? Well, the only way to find out was to take it, and my EF 100-400L MkII lens to check it out. Here are the results.
As always, all images hand-held, available light, spot focus centred in Servo Mode, spot metering. Brought into PS for lens corrections, cropping to taste, exposure compensation and downsized. Nothing to do with layers or image manipulation.
This last pair of images is of a minuscule insect inside the enclosure of an Auckland Elegant Green Gecko that I was going to photograph. It was in dim light behind some thick grungy glass. I realized there was absolute tiny insect on a leaf, and that took my attentions.
So, what do YOU think?
