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EOS Digital Rebel Test Shots

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This is my gallery to highlight test shots with the Canon EOS Digital Rebel. The intent is to illustrate the camera's capabilities alone, so all photos are actual camera images; no cropping, exposure compensation, sharpening, or digital editing of any kind has been performed. The JPEGs are the actual camera files. The JPEGs are all shot using the Camera's highest resolution JPEG setting. The PNGs have been converted from the Canon RAW format, but are the exact camera images. Canon RAW is what the camera creates when you set it NOT to create JPEGs, so the RAW files represent the best images the camera is capable of producing. Clicking on the thumbnails will bring up a medium-sized image. Clicking on the medim-sized image will take you to the full image. Be prepapred to wait a bit if you click through to the full-size RAW files; they're about 6 meg in size.

JPEG: The first night I had the camera I took it to my son's baseball game. In this photo that I shot of him after the game, I used aperature priority at f/4, and the camera chose a shutter speed of 1/50 sec. I let the camera autofocus.
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RAW: Played around shooting some flowers in my yard. This was one of my first photos shot in RAW mode. The detail is impressive. If you click through all the way to the PNG, notice how individual grains of pollen are clearly visible. Shot in fully automatic mode. The EXIF data shows an aperature of 7.4, but oddly does not record the shutter speed. In fact, there's a lot less EXIF data in RAW files compared to JPEG.
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RAW: This was a test of the camera's auto depth of field feature, where you align the focusing points to the nearest and furthest objects that should be in the focus field, and then the camera attempts to choose an aperature and shutter speed to achieve that specific depth of field. I let the camera autofocus. The aperature the camera chose was 6.6.
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JPG: Probably my favorite of the flower shots I took today. This is a JPEG, but the resolution is still remarkable. There's no artifacting whatsoever, and if you click through all the way to the high resolution image, take note of the visibility of the individual grains of pollen that have blown from the center of the flower and onto the surrounding dark streaks. Manual focus, f/8 aperature priority, 1/500 sec selected by camera.
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JPG: The wind was blowing a bit when I was taking these pictures and it was driving the autofocus nuts. This was one of the first pictures where I switched over to manual focus. That's not to say the autofocus doesn't work well, it's superb and extremely fast, but if the flower blew out of frame---it was swaying four to six inches back and forth and I'm zoomed in macro mode here---then I'd end up focused on some leaves or something else. Manual focus let me set the focus and then wait for the flower to be still to get the perfect shot. This was f/8 aperature priority, 1/500 sec selected by the camera.
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