Use Picasa, edit to straighten it, that should do the trick

@busyman: No harm buying a body 1st, then later only buy lenses. With your budget RM3k, I will say the same thing as bad melatonin, get D90 body + 50mm f/1.8D 1st.

550D VS D90? Of course D90, reasons, 1, build-in AF motor (extra advantage) and 2, the top LCD (looks cool ). Anyway, don't be fooled by the MegaPixel.

In terms of the price for lenses, Canon or Nikon, both are slightly the same. But bare in mind, Canon's lenses will not come with hoods, you need to buy it (Generel_Nic told me this).

Still, the choice is in your hand. Cheers

This post has been edited by ezrasang: Apr 9 2010, 09:24 AM

LOL, I thought it applies to all of their lenses, including L lenses, maybe I didn't pay too much attention to your talking?

Woot? 550D has a AF motor? (Didn't really read the specs)
Very very sorry to busyman.

D70!!! Hmmm, but D70 has a smaller LCD, then D70 using CF cards intead of SD (some ppl prefer CF), then don't have black&white, sepia, negative etc etc. Maybe girls won't like it. Worst of all, no self cleaning sensor!!

But on the other hand, D70 is bigger (nice to hold), got AF motor, got top LCD, flash sync 1/500, got grid view (not sure D3000 got or not), use same battery as D90, D300, D300s and D700(longer life span) etc etc.
Consider D70s? Can use battery grip and bigger LCD.

But for a girl (not that I look down on her), perhaps D3000, easy to maintain, easy to carry around hehe.

hur? Then I was confused, I thought entry lvl Canon doesn't have AF motor. Then AFAIK all Sony have AF motor, don't tell me don't have ar?

Me newbie, but just wanna know what lenses are you using. Mind to share with us?

hehe, don't look down on Digital camera especially compact nowadays, very hightech liao, unlike those days 3.2mp, zoom really sucks.
Try Lumix TZ-7, TZ-10 for now perhaps, hehe, I got shocked at the sharpness of it.

Yaya, that's what I mean. Coz I heard from my cousin as well, he said his Canon 1000D body got no AF motor.

golbeza: 1st, you still love your kitty lens? If yes, then add 1 more lens, which is 55-200mm, about RM900.
If you don't love your kitty anymore, then go for 18-105mm, about RM1.2k.

*Let me reply for him, as a real life buddy who always plays his D5000 with BG on, these will be my opinions*
One of the majors different is the gripping itself. To most of us (not everyone) without a BG, our pinky finger will be standing outside while holding the body, don't you feel very uncomfortable? To me, yes, very uncomfortable, especially holding it for a long time.
Next, I think I don't have to ask, but, do you wanna tilt your hand to capture vertical pictures for a long time? It's kinda pain, sometimes.
Lastly, imagine SB-900 is attached.
Conclusion, get a BG, it rocks! Seriously.

Well, I'm expecting Nic to reply as well

Erm, I think when I put 50mm f/1.8D on, the sound is louder . Rasa-rasa got louder.
Don't tell me smaller diameter lenses reflect the sound louder? XD

Assuming both shutter and aperture are the same. Just rasa only.
and of course faster shutter sounds louder XD

hey buddy, now, I'm loving it~


You know why I said that? Because index finger will not be on shutter button. Just like Canon lol
But then, Nikon is smarter. Now, I use middle finger for the front commnad dial and remain index finger on shutter. XD
If Canon, takkan index finger on front command dial while middle finger on shutter? (not insulting, jusy my POV)


Yaya, Nic, say u go to my kampung (without me) XD


Eh, syiok leh so many Malaccan here

Anyway, a pic to SPAM

Definitely not an issue.
Just that I prefer not to leave my index finger from the shutter. Well, forgot to mention, I will only do this when I wanna enjoy capturing pictures, I mean like take my own sweet time.
If wanna fast, my index finger will do all the work

^Is a 1855 a bad lens? No right. Unless those people demanding for a better aperture or longer range lens. And of course, budget budget.

Come come we go, I try on ur 35mm and you try on my 18105mm XD
but...... who to snap?!


Try Summit. Don't know the name of the shop