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Just got my self a MB-D80 battery grip for my D90.
Bought it at Sunway for RM460. Damn. It is a good price. J-1 offer me RM470.
Bring back the Battery grip in Happy Mood. Immediately plug out the battery cap and plug in the new battery grip.
It shows battery low icon. Tot it is just battery low. Recharge my battery. Plug in again. Shows battery low.
Then i remove the battery grip and put in the battery. Can power up the camera with no problem.
I suspect it was the "contacter" between the battery grip and 3 battery contacter pin inside the D90 not properly aligned.
I realize the center pin inside the D90 slightly bent toward 1 side so i use my nail to slightly pull it out toward outward direction.
Plug in battery grip again. Wala~ It works perfectly~ So far so damn good. solid feeling.

I read thru a lot forum, all with the same problem regardless of Nikon camera models.
So u know what to do now. Sharing = Caring.
Take care.
Enjoy shooting.

toured europe about a month ago. in a whole week i only had to recharge once. this camera's a battery sipper.

toured europe about a month ago. in a whole week i only had to recharge once. this camera's a battery sipper.

support ORIGINAL!!
 
p/s: just a spam though, still depend whats best for your budget.

that's y there r such things as macro lenses... 
that's indeed the limitation of the lens, it does not have such close focusing distance

u can achieve close-up shots up to some point, but still not so clear
y macro lens?
cos when u want take sharp close-up or macro shots, the minimum focusing distance need to be considered
70-300 minimum focus distance is 1.5m, but Nikon macro lens: Micro Nikkor 105 minimum focus distance is 0.31m
1.5m & 0.31m r big difference...
source found from Nikon site

They use macro lense , usually for macro,they use spot metering and smaller aperture (high number) .
Go to http://orionmystery.blogspot.com/  , his macro is awesome...

This what your 50mm + close-up filter can do>


bigg picture for better view

F22 looks better

metering only affects exposure and not sharpness/out-of-focus....
trying reading the MTF chart of lenses. Most people will use f/8~f11 because it is the sharpness and remember that using f/22 will require a much slower shutter speed and its is more prone to shake, that includes wind etc..besides, i believe that noise will be more prominent and NR has to work harder too, and there goes losing some details after NR.
(based on ur pic, shot at night).
Correct me if i am wrong.

I sincerely apologize for the misleading info I give about diffraction and blurry pics.    Isepunye has shown with real life examples that this diffraction blurr thingy does not exist for his Nikon D90 and kit lens. Again a thousand apologies.

agreed. sharing is caring. besides there a lot more opinion that varies from each other...

i also learn more in this forum and somehow this forum make me remember the 1st time i get the camera   

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Added on October 19, 2009, 12:40 am
jz see the pict... i can see the shakky there coz the picture look kinda blur... 2.5 second VS 1/10 second... thats lots of shutter speed decrease... i assume u using tripod i but using body shutter. try to use the remote shutter next time

when attach to tripod do u off the VR? i notice that when attach at tripod and not off the vr function, the picture kinda blur blur

Tripods and Monopods
Turn VR OFF on a tripod. Even if you forget it seems to be fine. If the camera is stable VR may add vibration attempting to correct vibration which isn't there.
Leave VR ON on a monopod. It will correct for the usual vibration on a monopod.

Sharpness
With those caveats, the 18-105 is probably the softest DX lens I've used in the corners at 18mm.
Otherwise, it's sharp all over, so just don't look closely in the corners at 18mm and it looks great.

All my other Unker say that with extremely small hole,  get more blurr pics. But Unker Ise say no different  . Maybe Ise can bend light. He he he.     

Unker Ken

Diffraction

Sharpness vs F-Stops
Unker Mike

Understanding Lens Diffraction
Unker Bob

Optimum Aperture - Format size and diffraction

p/s - Sorry Ise. Just teasing you.

since my opinion still tak bleyh pakai, i dont want to say anything hahahha