prefer d girl's 'poison' than bokeh poison

This post has been edited by General_Nic: Jul 5 2010, 08:07 PM

Guys, need some Advise. I just bump into a shop which sells Metz 48 AF-1 for the price of RM800. Do you guys think its a good buy????

Guys,

Can you please teach me how to take fireworks photos?

I am owning a Nikon D90 wif 18-105mm

Just bought my gears few weeks ago and heading to disneyland in two days time.

Please do advise.

Thanks

use M mode

exposure 4-10 secs
try this setting

ISO 50
Aperture range: f/5.6 – 11

ISO 100
Aperture range: ƒ/8 to 16

ISO 200
Aperture range: ƒ/11 to 22

better using tripod/remote release

This post has been edited by skarebels: Jul 5 2010, 09:18 PM

Model shooting At D-Paradis Resort

Weekend ok! LOL

Is it..

Hey guys, as I've posted in this thread earlier that I've bought a D90 recently (bout 2 mths ago) and now I rly think my D90 is a grey set though the shop that sold me the camera insisted repeatedly that this is an original set. I was a fool to just believe his words and not double checked properly before purchasing it at RM3250 as I discovered it has no 'nikon mys sdn bhd' sticker on the box & warranty card. It has the stickor 'my world trading sdn bhd' or sth lk that. not too sure bout it...

Now here's the thing, I heard grey set or local set, there are in fact the same and so far I haven't come across with 'pirated nikon DSLR'. My D90 produce great pictures but one thing which worried me the most is the fact that my battery en-el3e which comes with my new unit has quite a weak batt life span. Averagely on a full charge I can manage only 500-600+ pictures or sometimes even less. And among the 500-600+, probably around 30% or less is taken with flash for wireless triggering purpose. Bottomline is that my batt life is significantly weaker when I compare to a fren of mine who jz bought a D90.

Today we did a comparison, with more or less the same shooting style, we started of with 100% batt, by the time we shot 30 pics, his was still at 100% while mine was already at 93% and when we reached our 100pic++, his was still strong at 88% while mine was already 77%.

So I checked his batt & compare 2 mine and 2 my amazement, there's diff in our battery! I'm attaching the pic I took to show u guys the difference. The one highlighted in red box is mine while my fren batt is the other. May I know how's yr original batt like? I'm rly furious with the shop, sold me a possibly grey set camera and now I'm rly worried my batt could b a counterfeit one too...

Here's the picture:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/50541864@N05/4764187914/

TQ for yr time, guys

^oh dear, My World again
i bought frm My World oso last year n accidentally got myself a grey set too
but when i called to ask them they honestly told me it was grey set wor, if want Nikon warranty nid add $$$
but urs they keep insisting is ori set?

btw, my battery is ori even thou cam is grey set
bout D90 battery im not sure, maybe got revised ver?

i don't think there's counterfeit nikon batteries though. it could be that they might have swapped your new battery with an older more worn out battery, but that's just guessing. my D90 is also new, around 1 month old from singapore. i just shot 700+ continuous shooting on friday and the battery just went down by 1 or 2 bars. then on saturday i shot 1500+ continuous on the same battery without charging, went down another 2 or 3 bars.

This post has been edited by kenji_britney: Jul 5 2010, 10:48 PM

Owh, I bought from a shop in Lowyat Plaza. Well in fact at RM3250, their price is slightly lower than the average of RM3300+. However, They really really kept telling me it was original local set. I was asking them bout it. Then I ended up buying it cuz I wasn't aware bout the importance of having Nikon Mys Sdn Bhd thing at first. He told me I can checked at 'My World Sdn Bhd' and claimed my warranty there like all original unit does. Since I was still innocent and new to buying a Nikon DSLR, I was terribly misled by him and did not think I will be cheated hence I didn't try 2 investigate further even I suspected a little for not having the Nikon Mys thing. I would have topped up more for a local set with proper warranty if he had told me the truth. This is totally conning. So my battery is diff from yrs?


Yea, from my understanding, the D90 batt life supposedly is very strong. Mine even on the first wk, I felt that it run out of juice unusually fast. And only today I discovered my batt was diff from my fren's D90 batt. Well, if they had swap the battery out, that would b totally cheating customers!!!

yup, you never know what they'll do, but i've heard about stories like that happening with handphone owners who wanna sell off 2nd hand phone. something like they wanna sell it off to the shop, but didn't like the price, when the owner wanted to return the phone, they swapped out with a fake battery
anyway, i haven't heard of fake batteries, so i'm not too sure if this is the first time i'm seeing a fake, or it's really a real 1.

y use iso 50 and 100?? nikon D90 is best with iso 200

dont worry..ur battery is not fake one..mine was same as urs...

Can see chinese words on the battery. Probably made in china fake, lower quality battery.

lol. it's always best to use low ISO. especially if you're using long shutter. and just because the default is ISO 200 doesn't mean it's best lar. hahaha.

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Added on July 5, 2010, 11:47 pmmine is exactly the same as yours and it is suuperbbb. maybe you just got a faulty unit?

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Added on July 5, 2010, 11:48 pmbtw, celciuz, your bokeh poison too much laaaaa. hahaha.

This post has been edited by ifaaan: Jul 6 2010, 12:09 AM

lolx...bro, both aso got chinese word...so mean both are low quality battery??
btw, those both battery are made in japan...not china...

yup..i know is best to use low iso..but then last i heard, celciuz said D90 iso are best at 200...

oh ya ka? bt anyway, about your fireworks shooting thing. if you use ISO 200 and use say 10 second shutter, you might overexpose your photo. this is of course assuming you are using small f/. higher ISO will allow you to use smaller apertures so you get deeper depth of field. but if you want bokeh thn you gotta use low ISO to minimise the light exposure so you dnt overexpose your pic.

somebody correct me if i'm wrong. hahahaha.

use 30s f/22 with black card

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Added on July 6, 2010, 12:18 ambtw, i don't understand what you're saying

if low light, smallest f number as possible and bump up ISO to 800 and above lor to be safe.

This post has been edited by kenji_britney: Jul 6 2010, 12:18 AM

eh eh, he's shooting fireworks laaa. it'll be super bright. what i said applies to shooting fireworks. dnt really think it applies anywhere else unless it involves shooting bright light sources.

Lo1.0 etc aren't real 100ISO. Software interpolated. So 200 is still the best native. Unless you really need that sort of sensitivity then I don't know lor!

u could use ido 200 with f/32 but then again...do you really nid bokeh when shooting firework?? from what i see,most firework background are black..because we are shooting toward the sky...unless u are at some higher place lah..then can add in a little bit landscape...

One of my favorite xD,