I'll repeat, what is your budget?

If budget is unlimited, you may consider the DX king lens, 17-55.

You are always encouraged to use the flash in daylight as fill flash.

If you're in bright sunlight and using big apertures like f/1.4 or f/2.8 with flash, you might run into slight problems. As your flash sync speed on the D7000 maxes out at 1/250, you need to set it to AutoFP which enables you to shoot at any shutter speed (at the given aperture) but at the expense of flash power loss (limited range) when going faster than 1/250.

Usually, the capacitor kongs out but it is an easy replacement.

It's actually simple. If you're shooting flash in tungsten lighting, use tungsten colour gel and set camera WB to tungsten.

If you're shooting flash in fluorescent lighting, use fluorescent colour gel and set camera WB to fluorescent.


That's correct. With mixed lighting and flash, it is always tricky to get it right.

The general rule is to get your flash colour output the same as the ambient lighting.

Yup. While Active D-Lighting is a nice feature, it is at the expense of reduced dynamic range and increased shadow noise in some cases.


Or.... Meter (M) your camera to expose (or underexpose slightly by 1 stop) for the background and let the flash illuminate your subject.

For skintones, try and turn the saturation down. Use neutral to get better skintones.

Histogram.

Photography is a very expensive hobby. As a newbie, you would not know what type of photography that you would like to go into. The kit lens would be able to accompany you on your photographic journey and along the way, you'll find your niche and also your interest (or not at all). During that time, chances are that you would also hit the limits of your kit lens and that is when you go for specialised lenses.

Example: If you find that you're getting closer and closer to your subject to get closer details but you're not able to do it with the kit lens, then you should be looking at the macro lens. If you're into night photography and everytime you hit the limit of your small lens aperture, you'd probably want to upgrade to larger aperture lenses.

Nikon 35mm AF-S f/1.4G !


Anyone here own this delicious prime lens ?
I'm eye-ing this for my D7000.
Hopefully can manage to save up in the next 6 months.

Hari Belia in putrajaya this weekend! going for the paintball event

could give a try to Tamron 17-50 ?

I'm going there too. to work. lol

lol, is that Soloman Freeman, then is most likely D3s with 70-200

cos flash colour not the same with ambient light, WB cant balance out
when balance out ambient light, the flash light becomes too cold, when balance out flash light, the ambient light becomes too warm
nid use colour gels, when ambient light is warm, use orange gel to get orange flash, then use colder WB

I have not shot with mine a lot but wide open f/1.4 sharpness is fantastic.

Aisk, POISON !

Yeah, gotta shot this lens with f1.4 most of the time with this lens.
If not, can just get a 35mm f1.8 for a much affordable pricing.

How much did you bought this ?

^ 1.4 you say?

Oh you'll be working where?

I think I got mine about 4.9k thereabouts. Yes, wide open is nice but when the subject moves about, it's not the easiest to shoot with since DoF is very thin.

The 35mm f/1.8 is nice and affordable. Would have gone with that but I wanted FX. I already have the Sigma 30mm f/1.4 and I'm told it's pretty similar output with the 35mm f/1.8 except that the Sigma being less contrasty out of the camera but smoother bokeh.

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Added on May 25, 2011, 4:00 pm

I somehow don't have the love for the 50mm f/1.4.

24mm f/1.4, 35mm f/1.4 and 85mm f/1.4 is a different story.

This post has been edited by jchue73: May 25 2011, 04:00 PM

Work under Acer.

For 50mm, f/1.2 is the real deal

Wonder when the AF-S will be out... But even then, I would need to get used to the 50mm FoV.

Yeah. Where is the Nikon AF-S 50mm f1.2 is coming anyway.
Canon had that since 2006.

Yeap, the reason for getting 35mm f1.4 is future proof. Can go FX anytime.

f/1.2 AiS performs better than the f/1.4D. Sharper wide open even f/1.2 versus f/1.4

i dun even open flash wor....

My father used to havev 1.2 =( Don't know where did it go to. Yeah that's the MF 1.2

Should i get the Nikon D5100 with 18-55mm or 18-105mm? hehe.. going to join this Nikon family soon

This thread is getting better, instead of all gear talks, now there's more explaination about technical settings