Could it be amp noise? Perhaps a long-ish exposure at high ISO with the cap on and the rear viewfinder blocked will reveal that? But if it really is amp noise that bad, you gotta send it back.

Hahaha you should see the D400 speculation thread, everyone there when the D600 rumour came out cause there was a FX-DX debate. I await this eagerly cause I wanna go FX without the high cost. Need the high ISO for concerts.

so what exactly was the problem? As far as I can tell the 12-24 has issues with your camera, or is it the other way around?

I can only hope

Todays pic spam:


Keshav by zhisheng_chow, on Flickr

Should be USD 2k, and I highly doubt removal of the AF motor. Just upselling the sensor (see sony A850) didn't exactly get them anywhere, so the associated features should at least be at D7000 level. Even reusing the 1005 pixel metering sensor I don't care, cause the damn thing was accurate to start

Here goes...with any luck we will meet each other around one of the Bersih meeting pts....

Covered bersih all the way till 15 mins before teargas. Damn lot of images omg.

Sup chaps!! Were you all in yellow? I was there...wearing grey with my GF. Got lots of "you guys media ah" questions.

Repost from showcase..malas wanna link up again.

We were there until 15 mins before all hell broke loose. And it was doing so so well before that. sigh.


Dataran Pano by zhisheng_chow, on Flickr


DSC_0153 by zhisheng_chow, on Flickr


DSC_0312 by zhisheng_chow, on Flickr


DSC_0194 by zhisheng_chow, on Flickr


DSC_0219 by zhisheng_chow, on Flickr


DSC_0289 by zhisheng_chow, on Flickr

Jalan Sultan Crowd :


JlnSultanPano by zhisheng_chow, on Flickr

Initial Move up near Jalan Petaling :

PetalingStreetPano by zhisheng_chow, on Flickr


PetalingStreetPano2 by zhisheng_chow, on Flickr

More here :

Bersih 3.0 Set 1

Bersih 3.0 Set 2

or you can follow the the links to my flickr.

Oh and this was me.

That would be the Think Tank Sling-o-matic 20. Great bag for shooting on the go, better than a messenger bag cause it won't swing all over the place, but has the capacity of a backpack without having to put down your bag and unload. Best bit is you can just swing it to the front like I did in the pic, then swap lenses, get gear or whatever.

haha, it's a D90

Quite easy to change lens...depends on how you have the dividers set up though.

Heya Your photos weren't bad either! Well, we did manage to go around a lot..mainly cause we were looking in vain for our friends! Say go Petaling Street near the arch, then look see look see cannot find, call also cannot get thru. In the end got fed up and just started shooting all the way, and tried to get ahead of the crowds whenever possible. Then we thought it was a good idea to head to Dataran, so we took the back alleys and bypassed the main crowd. Got right to the barricades. Saw the FRU and then we started to worry. GF saw hundreds of police behind the FRU =/ Then we left. Turns out 15 mins later teargas flew.

In this case we shot as a team of two. Got some similar things, but I had a lot more pano's, and GF had many more people shots. It was good cause we could keep an eyeout on each other. Got good got bad lah, shooting as a team

I didn't manage to use my 80-200 much. I mainly used the 17-50 and got as close as possible!

Goddamn is that a race prepped Lotus Elise?

like you I like taking pictures of buayas too hahaha

Todays dump :

Arty at Zouk Club KL


DSC_0946 by zhisheng_chow, on Flickr

ISO3200 on a D300s. Shot RAW, applied NR in LR3 then added fill light, that might explain the grain. I WANT A D700 (or even better a D3s lolol )

I agree, try get it right first time....so you can avoid spending time in PP (I malas PP lol)


Thom Hogan (http://www.bythom.com/index.htm) has a good hint on his page today for panning, you might find it helpful


Yup yup you are right! Looking back at it we were very light handed with the noise reduction. I think we were worried we would wipe out too much detail, but I tried it again and we got better results

Yeap, standard shooting ISO 100-400 for max image quality...it's only when you go to the extremes like sports, events and concerts when you need a silly level of ISO. (D700 pls )


Hi!

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO don't poison me please =/ My poor wallet cannot take it. But it is undeniable the D800 is crazy superior to anything out there....

Once you start focussing closer the DOF starts becoming shallower also.

Anyone try the 28/1.8 yet?


W3000ANV Hanging by zhisheng_chow, on Flickr

W3000ANV, Jaben owner Yuheng's personal pair.

You know....we forgot to try them. =/ Molested them kaw kaw, but didn't try. -.-

What camera and what lens are you using? Do you have a flash on with AF-assist? Always use a cross AF sensor whenever possible with as large an aperture as possible. AF-assist is/can be invaluable, but use the flash af-assist, not the one on camera.

Hey, just need a quick opinion. I'm looking forward to the D600 or if that doesn't come out, a D700. The problem now is with my lens setup. I'm looking at my lens options right now and this is what I have.

Wide options are as follows :
16-35/4
17-35/2.8

Mid-zoom
24-70/2.8
28-70/2.8

Tele will be 70-200mm. The dilemma is that based on my shooting habits on DX, I use a lot of 17mm and 50mm, very little of the 35mm. To save you doing the maths, I use a lot of 25mm, and 70mm on FF. I wind up wishing I could go a little wider though. So, do I forget the mid range zoom, get a fast wide and a fast normal prime (50/1.8G), or just get the midrange zoom? I only have enough budget to cover the mid-range zoom (excluding tele, I'm replacing an older 80-200), so I can only have one, not both.

Also, I read that the distortion on the 16-35/4 is ridiculous, any user opinions?

This post has been edited by zhinsara: Jun 5 2012, 05:21 PM