pa_sjo

D40x and D60 are both current models.. different price bracket offering different levels of functionality..

Adz The Rat

My gf bought it for me. Im a beginner so sure it will be good enough for me to learn with.

Dicko&Vacant

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Well im sure you will be happy with it!

Im a beginner too, still not great

Sarah

Captain500rs

Practise makes perfect as they say

danneth

just got a d40 for xmas, should be great to start with took me about 30 mins to get the lens cover off so taking good pictures could be a few months away yet

danneth

lol amatuer and all these settings not got a clue what to be doing but im having fun

J1mbo

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having fun is all that matters

danneth

what format do people save the piccys in jpeg or RAW ?!?!?

turbocat

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2 weeks age I picked up a canon 400d fantastic camera

Not very good pics but here we go. Need to get out and get some more pics

danneth

not the best but getting there

Adz The Rat

I love my D40!!!
Need to get used to it but had a little play.
Any advice on these??

danneth

tell me about it been reading some stuff on net for best settings but seemed to make it worse so put it back to default could do with some advice from some of the people on here

pa_sjo

www.photo.net has some good tutorials on lenses, lighting, etc

That's where I learnt the basics..

p.cressie

One the girlfreind took on holiday.

Shame the scooby got in the way lol. Any tip's on how to take photo's when shooting in to the sun, especially in winter when the sun is low.

danneth

Red16

Great to see all the new people with their Christmas presents

The Nikon's can save in RAW and jpeg symultaneously, RAW format allows for much greater post processing of the image. If you're after image quality you'd be better off shooting in RAW and then converting the RAW image to a TIFF file rather than using a compressed jpeg.

Red16

I've been out tonight with my D60 and got a few snaps from inside a local shipyard

Washed up debris



The river Tyne from the slipway





Tyne Slipway Ltd

Red16

A panorama, stitching together 5 photos.



A smaller panorama (2 images)

danneth

thanks red looks like mine have been done via webcam lol, great piccys

danneth

anychance of putting up what settings you use red?

M4tty

Got the D40 for christmas to, but when i ordered it, it didnt say it was the VR lens, but it came with it , also got a bag to carry everything in.

This was gonna be my texture photo:


And a couple of others I've taken:

Red16

the photos with the lights in were taken using a tripod and the camera in manual mode with

ISO : 200 and 400
exposure : between 20 and 30 seconds
aperture : f16
light metering : pattern
light source : tungsten
focal length : 18mm

the photos of the slipway and building with no lights in was

ISO : 400
exposure : 113 seconds
aperture : f16
light metering : pattern
light source : tungsten
focal length : 18mm

Red16

Here's a little bit of a helping hand to some of the new Nikon users, it helped me when someone showed me this when i first got my D60

When looking through the view finder you will see a chart like one below (i imagine canon is very similar) this gives you an idea of the available ambient light and how exposed the image is going to be.



The camera has a light meter built into it which checks the amount of light available and this alters the small bar on the chart to tell you how to adjust the shutter speed (exposure length) to get a correctly exposed image.



in the above 3 examples, if the shutter release is pressed the image captured will be exposed in 3 different ways.

(a) this image will be exposed correctly
(b) this image will be overexposed a lot
(c) this image will be underexposed quite a lot

And have a read of the sticky threads in the Pictures, video & Photoshop forum by Frog theyre great, very informative

M4tty

gonna get myself down the Quayside at some point to!!

Red16

Do it! It's such a photogenic place

I keep meaning to go up there for the last hour of daylight, just as the sky is changing, its the best time for photography allegedly, but i've not done it yet

Captain500rs

Some good pics here again,just been looking thru ya flickr Ben one word mate stunning! a keep meaning to go out but feel like a tool walking about wi a tripod and camera lol

M4tty

I know what you mean, the girlfriend is at uni in town so would be over quiet often but normally dark with no sunlight when im out and about

Captain500rs

Well get some low light shots taken quayside looks mint at night ya can do loads more wiv a dslr ya not limited like ya would be wiv a point and shoot

Red16

Cheers

Sod what they think, just get out there and enjoy it, just be aware of people around you while youre out at night, keep safe

I prefer night photography to be honest 95% of my photos are taken after dark.

M4tty

well might see one of you out, with or without tripod :P

danneth

so take example b for instance whats the best way to combat this?

few other things to

*which metering do you use?
* also with AF area mode ive tried to use "single area " but it seems to want to use the right hand side sensor to focus and i cant get it to use the middle sensor

also do you have NR on or off read mixed things about this?

rsnissan

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As I had a bit of time over xmas I FINALLY got the D90 out of the box after having it 3 weeks

Its my 1st dabble with SLR's since my Dynax 7000i and Praktica MTL3 lol

Just getting used to all the new settings they now have;

These were all taken on my 18-200mm straight off the camera no editing so not sure how much better I could make them!?





Playing with the single point AF


Dicking about with aperture priority on the rest of these at my folks place;







I have just bought the 12-24mm which I am looking forward to using at night in London so watch this space. Need to get a tripod too and a few other bits..........why do i get the feeling getting back into this is going to cost alot

leecavturbo

most of the pics in this thread are just amazingly clear.
is it not possible to get anything reasonably good with a compact?
i got a 10.2meg thing but the pics are horendously noisy!

pa_sjo

Red16- I must admit I always go one notch up on exposure on most of my manual pics on my D50

Red16

Reduce the shutter speed, or if you cant reduce the shutter speed enough to correctly expose the photo, increase the ISO.

The reason i say this is the camera should already be set up to take the photo the way you want, with regards to the aperture/white balance/focal length etc

I prefer matrix metering.

I also like the AF set to closest subject, sometimes in dark environments the camera just wont autofocus and you have to manually do it.

Noise reduction and active D-lighting both off.

This is the reason people carry around bags full of heavy/awkward DSLR camera gear as compacts just dont quite cut it.

If im in any doubt, i prefer to slightly overexpose an image too, as its easier to tidy up with a bit of post processing compared to an underexposed image.

Glenn_

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Some mint photos,you lot are clever.

pa_sjo

Although technically underexposing is better than over, as you lose data to manipulate with over-exposure! It's an art-form!

Red16

true enough

danneth

in this one seems really shitty on the outskirts of the cup?

leecavturbo

just did a outside shot (night/dark)
this is the compact camera crap you get
.