Believe or not even ISO good, I sometime dine at hotel, aperture still at f/1.4
Never mess with hotel lighting, especially fine dining.

of course 35mm better than 18-55 in taking portrait. Prime lens bokeh always better

in my own use it's just perfect.. if you just 2-3 feet away from people

If i am not mistaken, DigitalRev are using wireless microphone, cause sometimes u can see Kai have a huge box thingy in his pocket which most likely is the audio transmitter and since they are using the 5D MKII, using mic should save them alot of time

What I can say is, if u travel around and likes to take landscapes, or even portraits that u wanna include the background, u must have a wide angle lens, I seldom use 35mm to travel, coz I need to fit a lot of landscapes/backgrounds into the frame, to make it simple, the lesser the mm, the more you can capture into the frame!

Travel need UWA already. Sigma 8-16mm

waaa.... 8mm? lol.... tat day I tried.... can see too much distortion

You mean Sigma ? I never do sigma. Only Tokina 11-16 works for me. Or Nikkor 12-24, Nikkor 14-24.

Sigma 8-16 better than Sigma 10-20 tho. Way better.

Really ? LOL
Usually f/1.4 with what ISO ?

This post has been edited by fabianz03: Nov 15 2010, 08:22 PM

thanks you kent , can you recommend the len to me ?

Sorry i dont know much about the len , still learning . Hope you can guide me .

I love to take portrait , my fren , my family or stranger . especially play with eye contact .

Ohh okay .

Because i going to buy my first DSLR nikon d3100 , so i just dunnoe whether should i buy 35mm len or not , because i only can afford that len which is around rm 800

This post has been edited by bbuser91: Nov 15 2010, 08:28 PM

Tokina 116. You can fit Harbour Bridge & Sydney Opera House together

Get the kit lens, then get a used 35mm F1.8G @ around 650-700, this is a very good lens, the 50mm might be too narrow for ur liking, wait until u comfortable with primes 1st den u get narrow primes. Juz my 2cents


I think u also can do this with kit lens by walking 10 steps back? hahaa.....

This post has been edited by Kent3888: Nov 15 2010, 08:42 PM

no distort no syiok meh..

okay kent , thanks you . Your advice is useful to me , appreciate your help =)

anyway 50mm is AF-S or AF , nikon d3100 dont have auto focus motor right ?

Some time no space to move backward and the effect looks different for UWA. Guess you never really play before with it.

Depends what 50mm. f/1.8D and f/1.4D no built in motor. f/1.4G got.

Nope.... never played with one, I like to take landscape, but my current aim is to get the tamron 17-50 to replace my kit lens for wide angle and std zoom. I rmb last time u said the one without motor n VC is the sharpest, where u get this info frm? Coz frm the comparison I see, the built in motor version is sharper than the VC.

http://www.the-digital-picture.com/Reviews...p=0&FLI=1&API=0

I wonder the focusing speed using the D7000 body motor drive vs the built in screw drive motor version.

Thanks you =) . Now i understand d !

hahaha digitalrev.. Kai rocks

Guys what is DX and FX?

And what is the cheapest macro lens good for D3100?

ohh... Also how to check prices of DSLRs sold by retailers in singapore? Nikon sells more expensive than retailers right?

DX - crop sensor
FX - Full frame.

the macro lens should be tamron SP90 f/2.8 90mm