I'm currently using this lens & to be honest, at times it is a pain to use especially under dim light. Haha it makes it harder for me especially with eye make-up for dinner and i ended up looking like a panda with my eye make up all over!! Have to manual focus but outdoor not too bad, just need to get the hang of it. Last Sunday went for photo shoot (portrait) with friends & was using my my 50mm on manual mode for the 1st time, kinda tough cause need to take care of setting & to focus at the same time with the object moving or changing pose. I suppose i find it hard to handle it is because i'm still really new in photography.

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Added on January 5, 2010, 11:29 pmNo doubt i love my D3000, light weight & small Ya if i get to allocate more for this hobby, i wouldn't mind keeping this as a spare for travel use. Thanks for your advice

This post has been edited by CazzyCazz: Jan 5 2010, 11:29 PM

Shall we carry on? Or stick back to the old idea?

This post has been edited by shinjun: Jan 5 2010, 11:44 PM

Agreed that it is not easy, been there, done that. The viewfinder was not designed for manual focus so there will be times when you see the image in the viewfinder is sharp but when you take the shot, it looks out of focus. The built in rangefinder is quite ok but if the scene is too contrasty, it won't work well either. So I think you should understand the relief when I bought and started using my 35mm f1.8 AF-S.

dunno can join u guys or not for the photoshooting event
anyway, im going photoshooting in Pulau Ketam 2moro with frens, any1 can join?

whr is pulau ketam??

bro, its a small fishing village island off Port Klang
http://www.pulauketam.com/

owh~ all ur frenz thr... kinda awkward for a stranger like me to be thr... lol

wont 1 la, some r my frens' frens from college, i tak kenal oso, but can get to know each other n become frens
n we Malaysian mah, your fren is oso my fren

i would love to join but too bad i at hometown now...curious about pulau ketam coz always heard my frend said about it and i nvr been there...

wah... u guys meet up at 6am??

too bad u cant join us
but shud go, its really a nice place to take photos
not to mention it's cheap to go there n the seafood is cheap

haha, u saw my facebook event?
ya, we meet at 6am, cos going there by train need abt 2 hours

just back from friend wedding , indoor shoot is hard .....

without speedlight? definitely hard
without speedlight but with D3? definitely can

slow shutter can if someone doesnt move a lot

no speedlight , no f1.8 lense also =.=

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Added on January 6, 2010, 2:14 amheineken



This post has been edited by fcuk90: Jan 6 2010, 02:14 AM

for me, no speedlite, die lorh... pop up flash also ok lorh~! atleast got some...

Hi Guy

Can I service my DSLR that under warranty at Nikon Service Centres? I saw penang have service center there...



http://www.nikon.com.my/servicecentres.php

you definitely need a speedlight. if you are on budget, get a 3rd party speedlight like nissin will do the trick! u can't live without the speedlight once you use it for indoor shooting.

Either a speedlight, or a big aperture lens.. f/2.8 and bigger.

i have used the 50mm manual focus on D40 also until i get a D90 to autofocus with the 50mm f/1.8. u can really save alot of out-of-focus photos and gain alot of speed by having the autofocus. i know the next best thing is the 35mm AFS lense (which is abt RM800?), but it will worth it once u use it compare manual focusing the 50mm. but if anyone of you have budget for the 50mm f/1.4 AFS lense (which is priced at abt RM18XX?), i would recommend to get a used D80 body + the 50mm (non-builtin-motor) which price is abt RM400. used D80 body cost abt RM2000 these day. and if anyone is interest, my friend is letting go his used D80 body (in very good condition) for RM2000, you can contact me.

yeah there is 35mm f1.8 afs rm800