Do you have speedlight ?
Pay peanuts, get notty monkeys

As you can say SWM = motor. Go read more regarding AF-D lens and AF-S lens
You will know why AF-S 50mm can lock almost instantly while AF-D might hunt !

go try AiS... see faster or not LOL

50mm 1.4 ai-s makes a good video lens smooooth focus ring

My D700 oso no video, but i 

Did the AF assist lamp fired? Try turn off the AF Assit lamp and try again?

At aperture f/1.4, slight movement (not noticeable) will also move the focus depth/plane. The DOF is very shallow, and also depend on your distance.
16-85 have smaller aperture.

Try shooting at f/2 or f/2.8? Shoot closer to your subject and re-check. If you have a Nikon DSLR friend, try mount the lens on his/her camera and you try it then let your friend try it.

If I use spot metering, let's say I use middle point to focus at the eyes, then recompose, the mid point went to somewhere darker, so eventually the pic will b overexposed right?

I see.... using the AF&AE lock button when the focus locks on? Then recompose n click the shutter to capture only?

I see.... using the AF&AE lock button when the focus locks on? Then recompose n click the shutter to capture only?

Haha.... Then 39 or 51 AF point oso useless, juz for show only lor 

ND
I'm looking for ND 8

Then your 28-70 also daddee's one?

Celciuz powder de. He sell butt get de ma XP

JkJk     

Bokeh? I wonder how is the bokeh on 18-70.
can share some?
aye sifu CY! 

Well. it is misleading actually. not because of prime you don't need to care about focusing speed. but because of its purpose.
since what we mention earlier was 50mm. which it's purpose is for portraiture focusing speed is actually not a necessity in this case.

however if we do talk about 200mm prime or above which meant for sport. focusing speed take a big part.
as I know from ken rock well website.
most of the sport photographer jump ship to canon on 70s/80s because Nikon focusing motor has a flaw.

and again those sport photographer didn' jump ship back to nikon because Canon and Nikon is compareable nowadays.
Therefore they have no reason to sell all their gears and jump ship.
Grats for your first gold ring.

18-55 pawned 18-105 in term of IQ? You mean the 18-55 kit lens of D3100?
Thanks for the head up. I almost forgot Youtube these days provides good resources for information and tutorial too

Again, the 18-55 of D3100 better off compared with the 18-105 of D90 and D7000?

As for the flash gun, I know it'll do wonders in photography but at my current budget, I gotta wait for the next phase of my expenditure. Hopefully within 6 ~ 12 months I would manage to get myself both the flash gun and a prime lens

opss.. okay it is fact.
if you do video go for VR lens. as the VR will be very helpful if you do photo shot only. non VR ok lor. yeah that's what people said 1855>18105 in IQ-wise
oppss.. okay it's the fact.
how about some bokeh picture from your 1870? care to share?
that's what I know as well
bro CY
I have question.
if let say I found my camera has a good ISO control.
as it doesn't show any noise at ISO 3200.
what makes I need to use ISO 100?

for example I can shoot something with 1/200s shutter 3200 ISO. which is convenient.
in what situation I shouldn't bump my ISO into ISO 3200 instead lower it down into ISO 100/200 with 1/20s shutter speed which is less convenient.

Knowing ISO 3200 doesn't give me noise.
will that make difference?

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Added on February 2, 2011, 1:22 pm
do you think this thing need a fast AF speed? http://www.nikon.com.my/productitem.php?pid=1400-492a78c3f0

Bro i mean compare to same focal length -.-"     

Of course need fast AF speed , but what i mean is dont have to care so much about the AF speed between nikkor 50mm and sigma 50mm.

Lol i got poor english , i dunnoe how to explain well.