Thx for ur suggestion, i will take a look..
nyway, last question, is there any third party lens that would u like to suggest?
(it kinda cheap compare to nikkon lens.. however there might be disadvantages bout it.. mind to share ur knowledge?)

You like to see things correctly, but yourself only. Others will probably just view it as "just another photo".

hahaha yeah man, another similar analogy why bother setting WB since only you see the photo.

tamron 17-50 is probably what most ppl get, make sure to get the one with motor, VR or not VR doesn't matter.

But out of the 3 third party brand, i prefer Sigma the most, but its pretty exp in malaysia.

3rd party lens often facing focus problem.

So, personally if im gonna recomend my friend. Save a bit more and get Nikon

Tokina 11-16 also pretty famous, and u dont even need motor for 11-16 because its for landscape, ppl go for manual

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Added on April 12, 2012, 9:04 pmWhy bother take a pic if ur not gonna share and let other see your picture?

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Photography rule no.108 : No clothes on models when they're in the bath tub.

Rule No 1, Little cloth better than no cloth

hi guys,

just broke my 'Free Tripod' last night. now it cannot lock my camera safely edi..... time for new tripod! hahahaha

any suggestion and price range i can consider? types?

i'm using D90. sry newbie question...

price are concern here. what you rough budget?
RM<100 you can get a same tripod that you just 'broke'
RM>200 you can consider some china branded such as jusico,octopus and ..err. i frogot.
RM>500, wow, manfrotto,vanguard,you name it

budget around RM300-RM400...

definitely not RM500... hahaha... RM500, I will get killed..

any features that I should be looking for? or pay attention when buying tripod?

Understand that, but thing is I do product photography* which requires me to get the right color as close as possible. Even one product have many tones with slight degradation.
Frankly, I'm not a pro. But other than that, I value actual looking color on my monitors. It is more of a satisfaction while pleasing the customers to see.
*helping my wife to take her business product's ...


I would still prefer to have the colors balanced even though the person seeing it says it's just another photo or doesn't print photos often. If I do print or pass the pic to someone, he/she can print it with great colors, not spoilt by my 'wrong' color profile on my monitor during my PP. Right?

Can borrow? ..Haha. Joking.

At least I know whoever sees my photo, the color is already up to my expectation and always consistent. It is up to the person to get his monitor to the right color. That could also means he may not care about color that much I guess.
It is the same thing as driving a car which is dirty+smudgy. Some prefer their car to be gleaming shine everyday but others don't care as much with so many scratch & dings around it. Should be up to the person right?

True. I want to get the best WB I can tweak during PP. If the monitor I'm working with has a blue/green/pink tint then when I change to another pc/laptop ...the color will be off due to WB is off ....all bcoz the LCD is off-color.

This post has been edited by mmohdnor: Apr 12 2012, 10:07 PM

Putting that aside... I'm anticipating for your images from Bangkok... wanna see full size too... D800's 36MP glory!

My friend just came back from China with shots taken on his D800... doesn't look impressive I'm losing interest... come on let me see some great stuff.

it's depends on the user behind the camera
great tools must meet with great hands.

Let's see what jchue73 has from Bangkok... cause I've been to the same event with my D700... so more or less can compare what's the image quality like from the D800.

there's a new D800 ad that says "Sorry, but you're going to want to reshoot everything you've ever shot".

and they say the megapixel race died a few yrs ago.

actually the difference on screen is subtle la. . . unless you have two identical frame of shots taken with the cameras
it's only when you print a large final image that can you can appreciate the improvement the new camera gives you, even then it depends what are you shooting.

but of cos, other than the IQ, there's many new added features for the better experience of the photographers that final images can't tell.

if one just show a 2MP picture I bet no one can tell it's a D800 from a D700. It's doesn't do magic or makes a picture taken with an already amazing D700 suddenly look incomparable.

Just interested for the image quality, not the additional features.

Do you have a D800? Side note, haven't seen u posting pix before. Share la some

i posted once . . . have been busy preparing my for my final year in uni so it's been long since I last went out to shoot.
not yet own the D800, at first plan to get one this month, but with all the issue and it seems like they stop sending new stocks for now (probably dealing with all the issue reported?), I'll probably get it by June just to hope they sorted out the AF (I don't bother about the green tint, it's the AF that is worrying because I shoot lots of wide angle shots).

for the IQ, I've been looking everywhere that has pro photog posted pictures with D800. But seriously, if not for the EXIF reader they could have posted pictures taken with D90, D3, D700 and I won't have a clue it's not from D800.

the one new features I like a lot is the new metering and face detection. I shoot loadsa streets photo and with D700 a lot of time it underexposed the face of the subject and by the time u realized you've missed the moment. But I have yet to hands on one though, so not sure how good is it. All I know now are from info and views of those who have used it.

but if i really bought it, it's because my hand really itchy rather than it will improve the IQ of my image. hahahaha because not like i'll print 40'' size or larger for all my pictures anyway

wah in uni only but can afford D800

and probably by June, the hype in me will die down and I might stick with the D700

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Added on April 12, 2012, 10:59 pmhahaha the last sportstoto supreme jackpot winner here!

do some part-time job in uni and work as research assistant lo. . . pay ok good

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