Showing Off A New Camera With Tarantula Pics

[xanadu1015]

Finally have a new digital camera to use. It takes much clearer pictures with fantastic color, so I thought I would show off the results. :D



The first three are in order: P. Regalis- The nicest Pokie I have ever seen.
Avic. versicolor- just moulted recently
GBB

Enjoy,

Laura

[xanadu1015]

Here are three more: Brazilian Black and White
Giant White Knee
Mexican Red Knee




Hope you enjoy them,

Laura

[Gene]

Those are great pics!! What kind of camera are you using?

[xanadu1015]

I believe its a Canon EOS Rebel



I absolutely love this camera!!




Here are some more:

P. Murinus
Brazilian Red and White
H. Lividum

[xanadu1015]

I have three more to show off of the collection in my house.


B. Vegan
Chaco Golden Knee
L. parahybana

[manville]

Very nice tarantulas! Threy all look really healthy!

[shogun804]

man those pics arent good...actually im just jealous of your new cam ;P..nice pics and some sweet T's you got over there. the pokie kicks___ :D

[xanadu1015]

They are very well fed. Most of the T's are major piggies. Take the chaco for instance, she'l eat 2-3 crickets a day! Tjhe Giant White Knee "Marge" will usually eat 4 crickets and sometimes all at once! Right now she's in premoult, so I am anxiously awaiting that and see how much she has grown.


The Pokie "Neeta" is fantastic! Her and her male counterpart Raji (unmatured) are both very well behaved. They are skittish but all they want to do is hide so if you just cup your hand over them they will squish themselves in thinking they can't be seen. Haven't gotten a threat posture from them yet.


I do love this camera! So much better than the other digital I have. As you can see the quality is wonderful. This camera only cost about $150, believe it or not.


Laura

[Joe1968]

nice Ts, great pics.

you payed $150 for the Canon EOS Rebel???!!! they normally cost close to $1000.

[xanadu1015]

I think thats what it was....I'll have to check..I could very well be wrong.



Laura

[Hendrik C.]

The image data (right click -> infos) shows that is definatly a DIGITAL REBEL ! Very nice camera but theres more to go with it.

Will get my Canon EOS 20D soon. :D

greetz
illmatic

[cricket54]

The camera is a Canon Digital Rebel. My husband did searches for a couple weeks over the internet before he made his decision to buy one. He went to a commputer store and traded in our Minolta 7000 I 35 milimeter camera for this one and got it for $150. He asked me if I wanted to try a photo shoot of all our arachnids and we had a ball last night. He is usually nervous when any of the tarantulas are out, but there he was taking closeups! I put a blanket down and got the Ts to sit still for him. Wasn't too hard. The OBT didn't want to come out of her flowerpot and you can see she was upset. We didn't try to get the H. lividum to come out, just got her to come up out of her burrow.
Only spider that bolted was the P. regalis and I got her to crawl onto my hand. She went back into her tank easily after that. We don't normally hold her, but she has never shown any aggression. The other P. regalis we know he would run so we haven't tried to get his picture. He stays inside of this little decoration we have for his hide. We also got pictures of my P. emperor and Laura's black widows. Even got a picture of one of the tiny centipedes that Laura got from "Old Hag". With the picture you can actually see his head and some of his legs. They really aren't visible with the naked eye yet.
We didn't even itch that after it was all over. That was a surprise.

Sharon

[Schlyne]

I feel kinda selfish asking this, but could somebody do a close up shot using the digital rebel camera? (as extreme as you can get it).

Other people would probably be interested in seeing one of your T's or pede's or whatever at close up range.

I'm looking into acquiring a canon SLR camera, and I'd like to see how close up you can really get with the Rebel (base model, or extra lens..just let me know).


Thanks. :worship:

[Rourke]

I'm looking into acquiring a canon SLR camera, and I'd like to see how close up you can really get with the Rebel (base model, or extra lens..just let me know).

I bought the Nikon D70 myself. Something to consider, unless you are a long-time SLR person with lots of accessories that will fit the Rebel.

If you are buying new, and have no attachments/accessories, the Rebel basic kit is about $1000, compared to $1300 for the D70. But the D70 kit includes a Nikkor 18mm-70mm lens which retails for about $400 alone. One can argue all day about the quality of the CCD sensor, but this lens is superior to the one I've seen offered with the "entry-level" Rebel set-up. They are both clearly excellent cameras. I am a Nikon man, but this may only be because my first 2-megapixel digital was a Nikon with which I had great success. I still use it, in fact. It took the T. blondi pic that's in the New World Tarantula poster.

Friends of mine who are much more knowledgable than I in this department just bought a Rebel. They say they would have got the D70, but they had so many lenses already which would fit the Rebel, so it didn't make sense for them.

Just my 3 cents.....

[gothmog]

If macro is your main interest the the rebel is an excellent choice, given it's current pricing and rebates that are flying around ;)

The D70 is an fantastic camera, however many of the advantages it has over the rebel in more general use don't really help much for macro work, faster shot-shot speed, instant start up etc and it's missing mirror lock-up which is useful if you are doing available light shots with a tripod (admittedly you need to hack the rebel to get this feature :evil: ).

Basically:
The D70 is the better all-round camera.
All things been equal you can argue all day about the image quality - a tie, it's more down to the attached lenses than anything.
The rebel is cheaper ;)

And the money you save you can put towards a ~100mm macro lens, which will allow you to get very (http://www.pbase.com/gothmog/image/36277675/original) close (http://www.pbase.com/gothmog/image/30846001/original) indeed (http://www.pbase.com/gothmog/image/33514304/original) (warning big pics :) )

I will also add that if you are new to this SLR business as I was at the start of this year, unless you are willing to invest in some decent lenses (over time, doesn't have to be all at once ;) ), then you're better off not setting off down this path :D

As for how close you can get, this depends entirely on the lens and not the camera, the rebel kit lens can do a modest close-up of around 1:3 (third lifesize) the 100mm I use acheives 1:1 magnification, or 'lifesize'.

-- Jon

PS Really close to the hoverfly (http://www.pbase.com/gothmog/image/30846223/original) , warning huge pic :)

[xanadu1015]

I am quite happy with this Rebel camera. You can play around with the focus and get good close up shots without getting in the T's "face" (which is good considering the attitudes of the lividum and murinus). I love the fact that the flash doesn't wash out the colors and the shots are clear. I plan on really trying it out on the mystery T Drusilla.


In fact, here is a recent pic with the new camera. (Don't worry, we plan on getting better shots and posting them). Plus, I'll add the last of my new tarantula pics.

King Baboon
Honduran Curly Hair
Mexican Red Leg

Laura

[Seinfeld-]

VERY neet L.Para, same size as mine that moultd 2 nights ago ;P

[xanadu1015]

Here are the rest:

The three G. Rosea-

Shaggy- The baby, waiting on her to moult

Serafina- Got her at Petco for my daughter. They had her marked down to $10 because she was missing two legs. I freaked out a male salesperson when I scooped her up in to my hand. She has a wonderful attitude.

Medusa- The oldest, and can really live up to her name sometimes and is the nosiest T. I have ever seen. You cannot do anything with her tank without her coming over to find out what is going on. We have had Medusa for a several years now. She's still cool though.


Laura

[xanadu1015]

Sorry, I realized that I didn't post a picture of Drusilla.


Laura

[xanadu1015]

I adore my little L. parahybana "Lenni", I don't have to worry about him trying to run out of the enclosure and he has never thrown a threat at me yet. His leg span is bigger than a quater right now. Can't wait 'til his next moult and see how much a difference in his growth there will be.



Laura

[Lochala]

So, is Drusilla still giving you attitude? How is her eggsack coming along?
P.S. I really like her. ;)

[cricket54]

We haven't disturbed Drucilla since she has the egg sack so I don't know how her attitude is right now. I can't get a good look to see if she has the mustache (don't know how to spell the word) because she has webbed up 3/4 of her tank so well. She is neat and I'm glad you like her. This is the one that was sold to us as a Cobalt. Acts more like a nervous Brachiopelma then a Hap.

Sharon

[xanadu1015]

She doesn't seem to mind when we give her water. Moving the fake plant near doesn't seem to bother her either. But who knows what will happen if I try to touch her. I am hesitant to do so since she is so skittish.


Laura