Treehoppers (homoptera) are interesting creatures XD

They are small insects often seen on plants and often surrounded by ants too. This is because of mutualistic association. Treehoppers secrete honeydew (not the fruit!) which the ants collect as food; and in return, the ants provide protection to the treehoppers. Interesting.


Treehopper 1 by PF T.J., on Flickr

ET + 50mm F1.8
ISO 400
1/250
+0.3EV
F16

Off flash fired- 1/32
Another photo showing the mutually beneficial association between ants and an tree hopper:


Ants harassing a planthopper by PF T.J., on Flickr

Hi guys, i am tempted to buy used manual focus lens (AI-s) lens off ebay as the price is tempting. Anyone using those lens in your shoot?

some of them are good and some of them are not so good... which one are you looking at?

this only applies to those who have the luxury of time.

live view + manual focus. you will be surprise that it is more accurate than autofocus

I didn't re-compose, I know re-compose in high apreture will out of focus.
yup the subject is quite small as per ratio to the whole image. Guess thats the limitation. It was a bright background too, guess the camera didn't focus on the face and the face is well lid too..

thanks for the awesome tips!!

it was quite well lid environment because I'm shooting beside the glass panel which has tons of ambient light. Ya, I know with wide aperture can't recompose like that as compared to kit lens.

I guess the contrast is the key to get in focus.. haha will try that on my next event or something..

just hunting for bargain. I usually check out review then put a price before I go to sleep. Haha.

Small subject, if you focus the face, you may notice it's likely to focus somewhere else, either the background or something which not inside the focus point. After you taken the photo, zoom in and find where it focus, sometimes is totally not within the focus point, which can be really weird.

Even the face is well lit, but if the camera unable to differentiate or able to catch it, it will focus something else that is easier. It not like how our eyes see, not sure how to explain, but you can experiment on how the camera focus can easily lock on something fast and accurately, while something else, it just didn't really focus well or you can see it hesitates, OR, you try to release and half press again to re-focus, you may notice the focus plane may have changed. For contrasty and easy to lock on, you may notice there is no such issue, it just locks on easily and accurately.

It's annoying especially if you need to take large group photo in events or say wedding, and the focus went to the back or somewhere else. In such case, you can try take 2 photos, one which focus on the face, and another focus on the shirt, or something that the camera can focus and lock on easily and accurately. You may try compare the results.

Very risky buying from ebay..if the lens has fungus..how would you deal with that..money lost!

some ebay sellers are trust worthy, you just need to know how to differentiate them I bought many items from ebay before, all good, just never tried lens before.

Photo spam for today.

Campus in the midst of heavy clouds by NurAzam, on Flickr

awesome tips.. ya i think because the face and the background both are white-ish, which the camera can't pick up the focus.. I'll try focus on the between the eyes and the face and recompose a slight little and see how it goes..

I've bought many items from ebay too, but usually I'll stay away from high priced items la, better sleep over the deal with money in your pocket if you cannot 100% confirm the lens is as good as the seller claims.

D610 rm5799? hmmm..

where where where??

the long waiting free sensor cleaning. I AM PRECIOUS MOMENT | NIKON event.

wah serious or not? my fren who owns the D600 gonna rage and throw his D600 out the window liao

he bought his D600 brand new for RM5900 last time...

This post has been edited by seather: Oct 22 2013, 04:47 PM

OMG, it's from digitalfm14!! WTF, I thought it'll be much higher than this

Their prices are almost always the lowest
Only a few hundred more expensive than D600
Any buyers?

I'm very interested, but too bad, still sticking to buying either a D800 or maybe this end of the year depending on the difference in price because no budget atm.

But recent buyers of the D600 are soooooo gonna rage.

It be well worth for those yet to own the D610 but for those having D600 in hand..just continue shoot good quality photos.