A Year in Photos: Real Time with the Canon RT

A Year in Photos

Photography, fiction, and personal essays form my three primary creative outlets. For this blog's first 18 months, I used it primarily for photography. As I've returned to creative writing, I'll use this blog for fiction, too. Sometimes, when reality needs to be discussed more than truth, I write personal essays.

This blog will continue to showcase as many above-average photos as I can muster. Hopefully my written work will be as good or better than the visual. Whichever drew you here -- photographs or fiction, I hope you enjoy both.

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Real Time with the Canon RT

The Canon RT introduced the Pellicle mirror to cameras. The only camera I've ever used with no blackout during the photo capture, an effect I still find somewhat disconcerting. I don't know how to fully use the RT yet; some of its functions are still a mystery. I'll learn how to use all of it when I get an EF lens to mount to it.

Hand-held 1/8 of a second at f8. One advantage of the RT's system, which has no mirror movement to shake the camera during exposure, is that it allows much longer hand-held exposures.

1/180th at f1.8. Each winter San Francisco has a skating rink in the Embarcadero. I tried the same shot twice at two apertures.

1.90th, f4. The same shot with a deeper depth of field.

1/60th, f2.5. San Francisco boasts a wealth of statuary. Some exceptional and some, well, curious. I think this is a samurai, but I'm not entirely sure.