yup..i did noticed, but should be normal right..she is a d90 user *full time*, not like u, alphabeta *no offence*..probably she is in d90 thread?

Alpha_Company IS a D90 user
since dunno how many months ago
cant tahan poison from D90 users 

by taking D300s poison   
or D400 in the future 

why not get ur body calibrated with sony first and prove him that the lens has a problem...

happy deepavali!! or am i too late already??
anyway.. trying some slow shutter pics last week.. since i'm still noob, i think i need to do better next time around..
its harder to get sharp pictures.. or is it my lens? ;p

anyway.. kutuk n komen are very much appreciated 



i learned something at least.. dont rely too much on bouncing flash... most pictures end up with dark eyes.. so need to be more attentive next time 

Spooky: ahhh Good instruction~~    ~~

but i do it a little diff, i will use Smode lock it to the shutter speed i wanted, check both F on subject and background, see the differences, then only decide the amount of power of flash to use (manual flash thou)

and ND filter blocks out flash power too but it is really useful for F2.8 lenses under direct sun. also, if u notice, our skin absorb most of the light, when u zoomed in, even at F2.8, ur SS is around 1/640 only unlike when u zoomed out (wide) it goes up to 1/4000 maxed. (as it tries to meter the surround, if cloud/sky is in the frame)

*btw, diff body has diff DRO (other brand has other diff Dynamic Range algorithm) prehaps maybe other brand is better, or just that the entry level of sony is crappy.

also, yes u are right what DRO suppose to do, but in this case, the DRO in most camera dont work like what u saided. mmm i need to find the article out, i believe there is one that writes how the DRO process the image. worst to worst, i will spend whole night trying to 'make the graph' how it work.

but generally, DRO brighten up the photo, it does not darken it~

FYI, HSS still trigger flash even at 1/1000SS, but the real max SS for HSS is only 1/250 with SSS off. the 1/160lock is because u turn ur flash to bounce (thank albnok clarify this to me 3 day ago)

so, ur result will be inconsistent passing 1/250, and the light may not even reach the subject properly (making the flash build in metering goes a little haywire, thus inconsistent)

there are people who claim D3x HSS goes up to 1/2000, but the last time i read the instruction book of D3x (go google it) it quote 'HSS support up to 1/250'

But still, YES, it still may trigger pass 1/250...

hahahha, i was just pulling ur legs with the light speed thing, yeah, its from the circuitry in the flash to calculate and execute the amount of power needed to be able to keep the image properly exposed...

HSS - How it works

Recall that in "standard" flash mode, the flash output is a very brief pulse, usually much shorter than the shutter speed. As flash engineers worked on ways to produce ever-faster stroboscope flash modes (many pulses per second for stop motion sequences or disco dancing), they realized they could pulse the flash thousands of times per second to produce an essentially continuous beam of light (for brief periods).

So in high speed sync mode, the flash fires continuously, many thousands of times per second. All these pulses of light essentially merge together into one long "pulse" that stays on the entire time the shutter is open. This is a lot of work for the flash to do; but it only has to do it for very short periods of time (i.e., less than the standard sync speed, such as 1/200 sec or less).

So in high speed sync mode, the flash stays "on" for the entire time that the shutter is traveling across the frame. There's no longer a problem with parts of the frame blacking out behind the shutter curtains as they sweep across the frame. Now you can use fill flash at shutter speeds of 1/8,000 second!

im too lazy to paraphrase that...

guys... tamron 17-50 or F58?
i wan to get both but my finance controller didt approve it. 
so i hav to choose now n im confuse now...

Aiyo i miss the wonder of primes la. Now I'm prime-less. ):

STF POWAH!

Not missed out U. Missed out achew. (:

have u tried it before?..ahah hopefully can sell my bass guitar... then atleast got some cash to upgrade!! .... maybe i will include a free amplifier....too...musical instruments a bit hard to sell

yeaka.,....got examples?
cmon cmon!!