What do you think about the skin tone of this?

Who are you referring to in your post?

No flash being fired.

Not me, isn't?

I bought it at RM450 from Yannick few months ago.

What tripod you guys use that able to sustain the weight of 70-200 on a FF body? Any particular brand and model to recommend?

I have seen people using tripod with 2 extenders sort like "handles" to adjust the camera. What are those type of tripod? It is additional accessories? Any specific model to recommend therefore I can start with information acquisition?

Therefore, is there any or what are the differences between a pan-head and a ball-head? What's the approximately setup for such package from Manfrotto?

Therefore, ball head is ball head and pan head is pan head? Is there anything like ball + pan head altogether? I'm not sure about the model that I saw, but it has 3 levers and personally, it seems nice to have those when the camera angle could be adjusted easily by moving the levers instead of moving the camera. Pan head is much more expensive than ball head?

RM250 and above? That cheap? I thought Manfrotto's will be like at least RM1K and above?

Any recommendation of Manfrotto's packages that could hold a 70-200 + FF body? I checked Shashinki and it has so many of them...

Hmm... then why some of those Manfrotto's cost above RM1K? What makes the different and does it necessary to purchase those "class" of tripods?

@lwliam

Thanks dude for the photography crash course meetup just now

It's funny to finds that I understand some the terms reversely

Regarding the PRE WB setting, the D7000 does has the capture and save WB thingy. It can be done by...

1. Setting WB to PRE.
2. Next, release the WB button then press and hold the WB button again.
3. There will be a bigger PRE label flashes in the top LCD menu and ready to shoot a grey or white object.
4. After shoot, the PRE WB for d-0 slot will then be set and can be used immediately by switching to it.

There will be no image stored in MC and can be replicated to other slot to keep the setting.

Just tested this method and the WB rocks. Just exactly like the scene

Thanks again dude for your time for the crash course !

Yeah, it's much easier to use and much accurate WB to match with the ambience

Thank you very much again. I should have not skipped this chapter in the D7000 manual previously

This post has been edited by vearn27: Aug 24 2011, 02:12 AM

Actually, I flipped through the D7000 manual twice already. First time briefly and another time reading in details after I familiarized with the D7000 buttons and controls after weeks of using it.

However... I skipped the White Balance Chapter because I feel I'm not there yet to explore into that element yet. Preferring to learn the others first, therefore I didn't know actually there are more WB settings on the D7000 than the Auto, Presets and Adjustment.

According to what I read from the manual yesterday, whenever you set to PRE WB, then press and hold the WB button until a bigger PRE label flashes on the top menu LCD, it'll trigger the mode when you snap a photo of grey or white subject to save and let the camera calculate the best possible WB setting as of the snapped photo for the PRE setting. Particularly, this is the function we tried to fiddle yesterday and we failed to get it.

Additional note for this method, whenever the camera snapped photo for PRE setting usage, the photo will not be stored in the Memory Card and ONLY SAVES to D-0 SLOT. You can however replicate the entry to other slot D-1 ~ D-5 to save the preset using the menu. Next, you could just call any of the PRE presets using the WB button and dials to set to PRE d-0, PRE d-1... respectively.

I already added WB settings as the first item in the menu

I believes lwliam has no intention to brought up the debate for which is the better DSLR. Perhaps the way he started this discussion like poking, but I finds that nothing offending at all. Isn't we do that everyday in our life to our friends? Teasing and flattering?

To be honest jchue73, not that I'm siding lwliam because he's a friend of mine, but now I rather get your bolded sentence in the quote above offending and defensively Nikon is only for Nikon after all. Well, perhaps the way he brought up the discussion is poking style, but isn't that too harsh then by pummelling him just like that? In fact, I finds CY and Andy214 able to circulating the fun around for the debate. Chill chill ~

After all, he was trying to show me how to use the PRE setting but did not able to fiddle out how to do it. In fact, he did couple of times asked me to get this information from other Nikon users if I couldn't get it from the manual. In fact, I do manage to get the guide from the manual immediately after the meetup last night

Yup, you're right on what we're trying to explore out

This post has been edited by vearn27: Aug 24 2011, 07:45 PM

Yeah, although he mentioned Sony A700 can snap for the PRE setting easily, D7000 can do the same too. But again, at the point of time of our exploration yesterday, we failed to fiddle out how to work it with Nikon till I back home and flipped my manual. In fact, he did used the WB button + the dials to switch across WB presets.

However, he mentioned that there is one more setting for WB which he did not found in D7000 system. Let see what's exactly he mentioning and probably I failed to get it out

Isn't that is the Fine tune White Balance settings which you saw yesterday? The Squarish color thingy with a point where you can move to either increased blue, amber, green and magenta?

Given that's the case, isn't the D7000 would able to offer wider option with two values adjustable than only one which I saw from your video?

Wow, now this has growth into an interesting topic

Before that continues... CY, do you use focus & recompose method often or usually you'll just adjust the single focus point to achieve rule of third. For example... portraiture?

It's great that the veterans sharing knowledge and experience that will benefits the new comers rather than pure gears talk

Yesterday I shared with lwliam that I somehow failed to use the focus and recompose method properly. It stills goto the middle frame sharp most although I have performed the said method. He recommended that I only use focus and recompose if the subject is far enough, otherwise move the focus point for best result. Probably I shifted my focal plane when I recompose... do you face such issue when you started? Any tips?

It's not that I don't trust lwliam for re-posting the question here, but it would be better if much more practice varieties to be brought out

The same applies for D7000.

1. Press & hold WB button + dial to select PRE WB (can see on the top LCD).
2. When in PRE WB, press & hold WB button until it prompts to take sample photo, then take it.

(WB button must be released once after step 1. and press again on step 2.)

Here we go

I actually did once taking a photo using f/7.1 on 55mm in about 3 metres away and I still failed the focus and recompose

Hell yeah and I think there are few users here which benefit from the PRE WB tutorial too

Ehh..... don't blame me la.....

In fact I checked the manual right away when I got access of it, too bad I didn't store the D7000 manual in my iPhone.

How far are you from the subject when you used the focus and recompose method on your 85G? I'm still trying to figure out my error using the said method which causes my desired focus spot slightly soft or wrongly focused.

Regarding the PRE WB shoot and save thingy, I read it up from the D7000 manual that the shot will ONLY BE SAVED to slot D-0 even though you have selected other slot to take the PRE WB shoot. However, you could copy the setting from D-0 to the extra banks D-1 ~ D-5 slots.

Care to share what or how you do your presets? Your photos tones have been amazing

The Illuminated AF I set it as one of the item on my Quick Menu rather than U1 and U2. To be honest, I have not use the U1 and U2 yet. I'm clueless about the U1 and U2 settings till now that I read your description, I kinda get the idea of how it works. Nevertheless, it may come in handy but I still yet to find how am I gonna utilize them. Perhaps the thread you mentioned would be good to share out

Well, if you noticed the latest P7100, the high-end consumer camera has 3 slots instead ! I'm not sure if I overlooked it wrongly, but I saw U1, U2 and U3 being available on the dial.

It ended up with good discussion and finding. Let's just put this aside as it doesn't matter anymore. Cheers bro

I'm not sure if I'm getting your statement wrong, but while on the AWB you can press the WB button and rotate the dial to adjust from A6 - A1 and B1 - B6 on the top LCD. Only AWB though...