Would be nice if any of the sifus here could perhaps teach us the correct way to clean sensor ourselves?
Abit risky, but once we know how to do it, we can all help one another and no longer rely on Nikon

having halo effect in HDR is like an instant kill to your pictures, proper HDR pictures shouldn't have halo

actually it can be done with just 1 RAW file instead of exposure stacking

Damn creative la you bro
D4 could use moar Megapixels haha

Nicely put bro
The D610 should have wider spread of AF points. Hell, the D600 should already have it in the 1st place

Hmm, I guess its just a matter of time (probably years) when even the entry-level DSLRs get what we have in the current enthusiast-level cameras
But like you said, if they actually introduce something like this too prematurely haha, many will be pissed haha XD

But I suppose I'm still okay at the moment haha, most of the new features I don't really use also But to others, the lack of certain features will surely be deal-breakers

gunzerdude sifu is right
Lenses can practically last for a lifetime if you take good care of it

Its good to know that manufacturers still make mounts that are suitable for old lenses. Hope it stays that way lol

I finally got my D5100 yesterday!!!

I'm neither happy nor bitter. I don't have a D600 and neither am I planning to get the D610. I choose to bit the bullet when D800 was at it's highest price. What to do? Price to pay for an early adopter. What does it have that others now have? Just looking at the current prices and the other available bodies alone is heartache.

For the D600 crowd, I would understand the unhappiness the D610 has caused. Instead of putting resources to solve the shutter problems on the D600, Nikon instead chooses to put the solution into a new body (D610) and charge users for it.

Also like you mentioned, Nikon is able to put a lot of tech in a D5300 for so much less money than compared to D610 and yet charge a bomb for an updated D600 in the guise of the D610. I guess they continue to use this pricing structure because both bodies cater to different markets.

D610/D600 has a different targeted audience than with D5100/D5200/D5300. There was a survey done recently and I thought I read that Nikon and other big companies like Canon and Sony do not make so much profit on their high end systems. They make more profit on consumer products. So that partially explains your question why they choose to concentrate on consumer bodies like D5300 instead of D610 because as consumer products, they expect to sell more D5300 and try to please the bigger audience.

I know Nikon upgrade path is a little weird. They put newer tech on lower end body than they should on their higher end ones. I think it started on D700 time when they put the same AF module as they have on D3.

Anyway, I'm no camera designer but I suspect that putting in stuff like WiFi etc is a little complicated and would require a complete redesign due to space contraints. But then again, WiFi chips are very small.

Their marketing and social media department needs a knock on the head sometimes.

Anyway, I merely mentioned that with all big manufacturers, there's bound to be an orphan child lemon product like this where the company is not proud off and that it's normal practice for big companies to do this. Nobody company is perfect. After sales service is always a non profit arm of the company and most of the time they are set up to please users. That's all.

I don't think there will be a formal written statement. A written statement would mean admission to the D600 problem which they are not !

Investment itself always involves risk. Never risk free.

Calculated risk? Yes.

Yeah, landscape shots would place importance to quality than AF speed.

By f/8, everything is in focus.

This post has been edited by jchue73: Oct 18 2013, 11:52 AM

Congratulations man!
That's great to know, now its time to start shooting and sharing~~~

welcome to da club

When I reached home with my camera, it was already at night. So went out and took some night shots. Not very good la, to be honest.

Paiseh to share here...

Thanks dude.

i can see you are happy by putting 9 emoticons in same time.
when you gonna shoot race queen?

This post has been edited by Agito666: Oct 18 2013, 12:02 PM

Haha... My first DSLR mah. Deswai a bit excited. Sorry if I wasted forum space with my emoticons.

Race queen don't have. What about Singapore babes?

what about ballerinas?

want ask Chromatic aberration will have more chance appear in wider aperture instead of tighter aperture?

i only know it will happen when shoot in a strong back lit background...

Halo effect is the white glow of the subject which prominent on top of another layer right? How'd you reduce this effect? Some say use "smoothing" slider, but I don't think it's in Lightroom or Pshop, probably Photomatix. I would like to learn bracketing and stacking multiple exposure first before into single raw hdr.

Here's another tryout, I noticed there's halo effect of the hill, but still can't figure it out to reduce it.

Pantai Bukit Keluang HDR by NurAzam, on Flickr

if you use lightroom only then you have to mask it very careful and slow with your brush tool and also play with other sliders too

in photoshop there is a auto mask feature that can easy select the hill only, leaving the sky untouch then you can do your adjustment on the hill only and not affect the sky

for other software i dont know la, i use lightroom to do it only

Thanks for tips!
I'll try merging the raws from lightroom to pshop, then see if there's auto mask feature available with this method, save it in .tiff later reedit in lightroom.

photoshop is too difficult.. learning lightroom already can kill me.. haha

Well, its better to try shooting outdoors in the sun 1st


Great shot mate! I love the posture, looks very hard lol~
Too bad the face obscured liao, should be better without the jacket I think