Here's my shot with my 50 1.4D

this is first time i will say picture is soft...? 

a bit soft...
not that sharp actually..

OOF? 50mm f/1.4D should be sharp enough if step down sufficiently, say about f/2.8.

what is manual control ?
Manual mode ? why dont have ?

Shutter speed is the speed to decide how fast your shutter have to action.
Fast shutter you get subject freeze easier, slower means easier to get blur

For this image I used 2 seconds on shutter speed


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Shutter speed priority let you gain full controlling of your desired Shutter speed value,
and let the cpu pick up the suitable aperture value to get you a balanced exposure image

Here's my shot with my 50 1.4D

ouh.. nice.. thanks for the info..
but there's no manual control to set shutter speed in d5100 as I read through the internet..

http://forums.creativecow.net/thread/280/5939

Should be fine. I always carried 1 laptop and 1 bag for my camera gears.

But lately after getting the Thinktank Airport Acceleration V2, I put my laptop together with my gears and hand carry all of them in one bag.

Anyway regardless of the type of bag, laptops should always be taken out separately for xray scanning.

bro , why don't you "upgrade" to 50 1.8 D ?
50 1.8D  pretty sharp at f2 onwards

I don't turn the Active D-Lighting on too; Used it before but didn't really pixel peep and compare; But will be nice if I take a picture, it can produce 2 output, one with D-Lighting and another without 
But then, I prefer raw, so these features become pointless.

The diffuser that provided/comes with the flash, it will soften and also spread the flash around the sides (not really sure how to explain) and the output is not what I really looking for. Most people use it and use it the basic way, flash head up 90 degrees or maybe slightly tilt. That's what you see commonly, even indoors with ceiling and walls around; When I use it, I just don't like the output. It's unnatural, and very "basic" or "mediocore" output result, in my personal opinion.
The diffuser is useful for situation without ceiling or wall as well; you often see people use the diffuser just about anywhere..... and I don't really find the light as soft "enough". In many situation, I tried it, took it off and put it back into my bag.
You can check out more on the Demb Flash Diffuser as it provides more flexibility and better results.

Sorry about the gel thingy 
Forgot where I got the term, but there was also color gel which works the same as the filter; not sure which was first tough 

dear vearn27, grats for the purchase
and good luck ahead for the wedding

Basically, if there is a burst usage on the speedlight, it will heat up fast, so when the speedlight get overheated and when that happen it will have a beeping sound indicating that the flash unit is overheating(there is a graphic thingy showing temperature), therefore it will cut off not allowing you to use it anymore, but u can switch off the cut off so that even if the flash unit still beeping, but u can still shoot. This will allow you to capture the moments and not losing it, but i will say that the sound is kinda annoying. Good luck to you.

Here is the link to off the Thermal Cut Out.
http://www.ehow.com/how_7566056_disable-ni...flash-unit.html

Sanyo Eneloop, highly recommended from me. So far it works well and never failed me.

Yeap that looks like OOF, either miss focus or handshake

the most right that girl, news reporter in 8tv?

u have to ask the right question.. from the link u give, they are pointing to set shutter speed when recording(am i correct? coz i just simply go through)..
from what i know, most dslr have the M mode..of course can set the shutter speed..
but if set shutter speed during recording, i guess there isn't any..or anyone who use d5100 can tell?

I never bring any laptop before in my travels... this will be my first time. So i should take it out from the bag ? I thought they'll still ask u to put it thru the scanning machine ?

Avoid the x-ray damaging your laptop HDD maybe? I don't know...

I never bring any laptop before in my travels... this will be my first time. So i should take it out from the bag ? I thought they'll still ask u to put it thru the scanning machine ?