loved this series of photos achew...

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Added on August 18, 2009, 8:54 amhanafinoor:

bro any tips on creative settings for the a900?

want to minimize PP, if you have any particular settings, i would like to try that... thanks

bro how much u got your a900? .. ..

but honestly la ah.... can go for tammy oso... provided you don't shoot indoors, you dont really shoot at night, you're not into wireless flash.... and then can go for the 17-50 first laa... but generally, getting an external flash gun sure more penting la...

early warning, after getting a cobra... you'll want to get another one... and another one...

loved this series of photos achew...

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Added on August 18, 2009, 8:54 amhanafinoor:

bro any tips on creative settings for the a900?

want to minimize PP, if you have any particular settings, i would like to try that... thanks

Seng_Kiat: I would go for the Zeiss or B+W filters. Not sure which Hoyas are slim.

Show us a picture with EXIF? No you don't need to change anything. However, there is a difference in how Canon and Sony do flash;

In dimmer lighting, Sony defaults to 1/60s and pumps up the ISO to as high as possible to bring in enough ambient light. Often this means ISO1600 if your Auto ISO is set to 200-1600.

Canon picks a slower shutter speed; however I am not sure what Auto ISO will do. Though, by that I think the Canon would let in a lot of ambient light too. My guess is that Canon's rendition of flourescent is different with AWB.

i always stand on standard 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 if jpeg in normal shooting because I believe creative setting comes from software not the lens and it will be difficult to tweak in post processing in photoshop. Eg. sharpness - camera creative setting is not selective in sharpness where photoshop you can do masking and choose where you want parts to be sharpened. But in raw it doesnt matter tweaking will be done in sony raw converter. Lately with commercial shots I do everything in raw.

@achew, I am using standard hood that comes with 1680CZ without a filter. is it cause the problem (vignetting)?

@albnok, yes, I understand that florescent lamp is not pure white. But last time with my A300 or my 40D and I set AWB with flash on. I am still getting almost accurate WB. but my A700 with flash on and AWB, it gives me totally off WB. I have no problem if AWB with flash off. . FYI, I am shooting with CZ1680 with no filter (just in case filter is the problem). btw, any recommended filter for 1680?

Do I need to change anything like ambient light from the camera menu, etc? I have not change anything since I bought it.

PTPTN can buy camera stuffs? GG! Gonna get a900 then. (:

can....i am planning to do tht too...lol!!
but now dunno get wat stuff for my a700.....any recommendations?

Seng_Kiat: I would go for the Zeiss or B+W filters. Not sure which Hoyas are slim.

Guys, if i have to choose between the cobra and tammy 17-50, which one shud i GET FIRST?

CZ1635, CZ2470 and SAL 70200 

tanjq87 : damn killer la the prices of those lenses. LOL.

neo_lam : you're a student too? Cool!

Poor my @$$ la. (: I'm 18 only. (: