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Scott
Lv 7
Scott asked in Consumer ElectronicsCameras · 1 decade ago

Canon 5D problem, how do you use this thing?

O-K, like, so the book said to look through the lens and, like, compose and take a picture. All I see is, like, this little box thingy, here...am I doing this right?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/59252281@N02/55800573...

Anyway, no matter what I point the camera at, all I get is this:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/59252281@N02/55800573...

Thanks for any advise you, like, give. As you can see I'm at wits end!

Update:

O-K, B.E.I. eye yam havin a gard thyme tiping. Tried it with the 580 and all I got was this (and a splitting headache and this white dot that moves everywhere I look. I think my retina itches):

http://www.flickr.com/photos/59252281@N02/55796297...

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  • B.E.I.
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    The problem is obvious!!! You need to put one of them speedlites on the top of it (it helps you take faster pikshures....that's why it's called a SPEEDlite), Once that is on there and turned on (mine likes dirty talk, like "i'm going to cover you in mud and wash you off with saltwater"). Then hold your camera portrait style like a perfeshunal, then take your shot.

    Oh...and don't blink, like some of the armatures do. Blinking is what makes the images blurry.

    EDIT.....Sorry, I forgot to mention that you need to wear fake glasses, make duck faces, and give yourself a rly kewl name while taking your photos in either the bathroom or messy bedroom to achieve that "site model" status.

    As far as the itchy retina, that will go away on its own with you taking more picshures (or do like I do and use them really long q-tips in your ear to scratch it from the inside).

  • 4 years ago

    That guy suggested no longer something approximately fool. he merely stated some information approximately how EF-S lenses do precisely the undertaking you have suggested on EF mount cameras. i think which you're projecting you're own interpretations directly to his answer. you ought to purchase EF lenses. EF-S lenses are made for APS-C cameras. they have a smaller circle of sunshine that hits the sensor, so which you merely see and checklist a small circle, no longer the full photograph. Any EF-S lens via Tamron or Sigma or Canon might have this same undertaking. you ought to purchase EF lenses to positioned on that digital camera. regardless of if, ought to I propose returning that digital camera and getting a greater reasonably-priced, EF-S mount insurrection. There reward to a a million sequence which you merely do no longer prefer. you're inflicting your self greater issues than mandatory for the sake of status. and in case you spend $a hundred on a 50 a million.8 you will get crap photos on your $3000 digital camera which you will improve in one year. it is stupid. positioned a surprising lens on a surprising digital camera and learn. it is all good. once you attempt to attain somethign via procuring an costly digital camera you merely make greater stress for your self and look like a gadget. no person cares approximately what digital camera you have. we are able to be inspired once you're making good photos. via attempting to influence those with the 5D, you have executed the compete opposite. each and every physique will see by using your facade.

  • 1 decade ago

    I see the problem, there's a grey-haired guy with a moustache latched onto your 5D. Must be a nikon user with envy. Get some windex and just wipe him away!

  • 1 decade ago

    ohhhhh...just keep trying.......it will happen!!! lol

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