drink all you can @ bistro...i only manage to tapau 3 glasses.

Nice~ Glad to hear good recommendations about Foto Miami.

Will certainly get my P7100 over there.

Amazing low light shots, man!!! Any idea what's the f/number and ISO speed used?

Any Nikon photography gurus here know is there any way that I can increase the f/number of a lens?

thanks for looking...

i use as large aperture as i can since not much difference in DOF due to small sensor, which depends on the focal length ranging from 3.5-5.6, ISO 1600 and above (i think, some are ISO2000-3200) for most shots except those purposely put under the bright lamp. very dim lighting like average bistro, not like disco though those almost pitch black lol...

you'll have to take the shutter speed into consideration. with VR lens like the 10mm-30mm kit lens i use for the V1, i can shoot comfortably at 1/20 hand held and lower if brace on table/sofa/etc. if no VR will be different story.

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Added on December 12, 2012, 5:34 pmif you mean increase the aperture size means smaller number beyond the spec, no. if you mean increase the number means smaller aperture, then depends on which camera/lens. DSLR lens may or may not have manual aperture ring on lens, most mirrorless lens doesn't have aperture ring, and 99.9% compact cameras doesn't have aperture ring. those that doesn't have manual aperture ring, there're always way to set the aperture via menu or dial control.

This post has been edited by little ice: Dec 12 2012, 05:34 PM

It's my pleasure to be able to enjoy such beautiful photos, man! Can tell us more about the settings for each photo?

For low light shots, people want to shoot at as low an ISO speed as possible, right, in order to minimise noise? Shutter speed as slow as possible so that it allows more light to enter into the lens?

I am a newbie in photography... Newbie as in 99% fresh, apa pun tak tau. The 1% is gained via self-reading from camera reviews, photography blogs, bla bla bla...

All I have ever used is a compact point and shoot. 100% automatic.

This post has been edited by bb100: Dec 12 2012, 05:46 PM

Very nice and clean shots! How do you process them into such sharp photos?

He must have shot in RAW format, ehh? Can JPEG produce such qualities?

newer body can but RAW is the best quality.

jpeg/raw differences is during editing, like if its too bright, RAW can recover back more details then JPEG.

in terms of IQ, its still the same. if u take 1 scene using raw & jpeg at neutral setting then it will look exactly the same
think of raw/jpeg as a piece of meat. raw is raw meat, jpeg is cooked meat. but essentially both are still the same piece of meat. the only difference is how it was processed

http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials...ra-exposure.htm

check out the ISO aperture shutter speed triangle.

Fulamak!!! Your raw meat vs cooked meat analogy really man! I salute you.

Usually after shooting in RAW, how do we process the files? By using Photoshop? Can any gurus here enlighten me a bit?

Newer body?

Good read! Thanks for the article.

since the aperture isn't much of an issue for smaller sensor so i just focus on my shutter speed and leave the ISO on auto. if big sensor, and shooting close to subject, you don't want too big aperture since you can only see small area of the subject in focus, the rest all blurred.

i mainly shoot in M mode means aperture and shutter speed in manual cause i want to freeze the aperture setting as sometimes the camera choose higher ISO but smaller aperture which is unnecessary, then i leave the ISO on auto which control the exposure. when there's tricky situation where the meter will most likely result in blown highlights or push shadow too much, i switch to S mode or A mode and play with EV setting. in such dim bistro, i just use M and i think only a couples i use S. the metering of the V1 is doing pretty good job. in this regard.


i shoot RAW only and process in LR4, since i can recover the highlights quite a bit (like the 1st and 7th, if don't touch the highlight slider, it's blown quite a bit). as for ensuring sharp shots, to me the most important thing is to try to make sure my shots are as steady as possible so i check my shots immediately after each take/series of takes. nothing really special on the sharpening and noise reduction though i try to keep the noise reduction minimum (no more than 15 on luminance, and color noise already default at 20 i think), so upon resizing there the noise seems to disappear quite a bit.

but if you pay attention to the subject, those are really just still shots and not challenging at all and i can take my own sweet time to shoot as many times as i want.

Hi, do you guys use microfiber cleaning cloth?
Any brand recommendations? (Spudz? 3M?)

Where can get reasonable price of Spudz and Giottos Rocket Air blower?

one more shot shows the bar counter, and a nice white piano behind(?!) the bar counter.

Do you guys bring DSLR when going to a theme park?

Uhmm I brought mine to USS they had adequate lockers for your equipments if you can't take it along you on the ride

More details? Heeee, bcz actually the theme park I am referring to is USS. U mean, before entering the theme park have to put inside locker? How much will it cost?