My technical mentor agreed, graciously, to pose for the unique honor of being the first subject to reflect photons onto my camera's virginal sensor; he stood patiently at the precipice of the staircase immediately outside of my office door.
While in the most basic sense this new and highly sophisticated device performs the same fundamental function as the model 20D which it now supplants — creating the raw material for digital photographs — I immediately found myself facing a new learning curve. To wit: this capture was as a .jpeg in its original state . . . I've not utilized this comparatively lossy format since my earliest days using a Canon G2, c. 2004. It wasn't until I'd taken several more shots of various inanimate objects in my office that I realized the error of my ways; fully another ten minutes were required for me to decipher my first challenge in this camera's much more extensive menu system and change to RAW mode.
Even so, I chose to deliberately start testing the quality of the new body's higher ISO settings . . . considering that I took this pose at ISO 800 in a jpeg format it turned out rather nicely for a first try.
Processed with Lightroom 3.2 and Photoshop CS3.
Bruce, #0001
© 2011 James W. Murray, all rights reserved.
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Details: July 5, 2011; Canon 7D; f/2.8 @ 1/400 sec; ±0 EV; ISO 800; Canon EF f/2.8 100mm Macro USM
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