Try and buy some desiccant dehumidifier and put in together with your camera in a plastic container box for a few days. Detach your lens from the camera body. Leave the camera body mount exposed (not covered).

Hopefully that will dry out any moist inside the camera body and lens.

Of course they have to set up one there. So long as people like Cede Prudente and Louis Pang continue to make images with Nikon equipment.

Eh, nobody excited that the D4s already made it's entrance in the Winter Olympics?

Can already find a few images floating around.

I see now you're wearing Fuji armor. Think will try and settle for D3 / D3s to sample pro body. Still a lot of money though.

I still have a 4MP D2Hs. Can kira got style or not?

Seriously, once you use a pro body, it's so comfortable to use compared to a separate body + battery grip.

You using UV filter on your lens?

AF vs AF-S
non VR vs VR
non ED vs ED glass
cheap vs expensive

Like this.

Eh, why got mosaic one?

Pengsan.

Vignetting... A curse and sometimes can be a plus point depending on what you plan to do.

Anyway, shooting NEF would let you play around with how much you want vignetting or don't want vignetting.

Yes, buy what you can afford. Camera body is just part of the equation for IQ. When recommending FX body, you need to recommend good lenses as well. Good lenses cost money and adds up to the starting cost of a newbie.

Nice. Looks like vampires / zombies gonna come out from those houses.

Taiwan?

This is one of those landmark places for me to go.

While I agree with you, still you cannot put a blanket statement and say like that. If newbies spend too much money and gets overwhelmed with all the buttons and steep learning curve, they would probably have their interest killed and would have sold their gear. But those who can persevere, they can save a lot and can go on to be better photographers. So really it depends on that person itself.

When I started photography, I had very little money. I had no choice lah since DX also damn expensive already and FX digital was still unavailable. Well, the advantage now is that great equipment can be gotten fairly competitively lah unlike last time and you have plenty of choices.

Thanks for the tips. High security area usually tripod not allowed. Summer time not hot?

Yup. Higher end camera bodies and lenses don't drop so much as compared to the consumer type DSLRs.

Coolpix 800 > D70 > D2Hs > D300 > D40x > D700 > D800 > ??? <Canon 1DX>?

Hmmm, looks like I went up high and slowly came back to normal again.

True true. BTW, which kind of hobby is defined as a need instead of want?

Like they say, we grow into the hobby. No way out.

Cool. Look forward to it.

Any body (even D4 / D800 /D800E with -2EV sensitivity) would also have difficulty focusing in the dark. Switch to manual focus. At those distances, the focus will be at infinity anyways.

Actually the D300 is targeted as a pro calibre DX body. Focusing is pretty fast.

I think the problem with pauses during preview on your D600 is due to your SD card. What are you using?

Nice. Woow, where is this?

This post has been edited by jchue73: Mar 2 2014, 02:55 AM

QiAnG, Pro3363, nice landscape pics.

For the moment, people in Semenanjung or specifically in the Klang Valley suffer lousy sceneries due to bad air quality plus water crisis.

You already have D800. You want D4s some more?

That Manfrotto carbon fiber cannot fit in the RM 500 budget. I think RM 1k budget also cannot get.

With all the Chinese manufacturers coming out with tripods that rival or better the quality that Gitzo offers, I don't see the reason paying extra for the Manfrotto brand.

Forgot about this. I think it's a great shot with excellent timing.

Wooow. Nice sunsets. I like them. Gives me hope looking at these pics that the current smog situation will be better.

Why do you need the D4s? It's nice to want it but if you want it for the wrong reasons, then it will not serve you and perhaps something like a D800/D800E would be better. Savings can go to getting better prime lenses to compliment the 14-24mm f/2.8, 24-70mm f/2.8 and 70-200mm f/2.8 trinity lenses.

Look for it. I think no point trying to re-invent something already done.

One of the many examples;

http://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/3523237

Congrats ! When is the big day?

Sudah propose or belum propose?

Hey guys, thought I'd post something very relevant. I came across this on Kopitiam.



Looks like they are using a D4 + 24-70mm f/2.8 + SB-800 speedlight + Blackrapid strap. Perhaps the picture did not show it but I hope they have a D800 setup. The D4 resolution may not cut it.

I personally use my D800 with my 24-70 most of the time when I want to identify something far like a car number plate that my eyes fail to identify. I just take a grab shot at 70mm making sure it's at high shutter speed to prevent any blur at f/3.5 or f/4 and then zoom in at 100% on the LCD screen. Gets legible and clear image for identification purposes. No guess work required.

The whole rescue operation thingy was lingering in my mind the whole of last weekend. Just felt like saying something about it.

What type of subjects are you shooting for tele?

Should look at the new AF-S 80-400mm VR.

<Caabbuut>

LOL True. My lenses are in the drybox and longing to come out for some action. Been too busy with other things. Have not taken holidays too.

Yeah, from what I read, the Tamron has slower focus but image quality is not bad.

For that purpose, the new AF-S 80-400mm VR is excellent.

The 70-200mm f/4 Nikon is a very good lens. But if you want something longer, you may want to use a 1.4x TC on it but that's about the max it can take.

If you can get the AF-S 300mm f/4 2nd hand, you get more reach and because it's a prime, you can use up to 1.7x TC with decent results because the bare lens itself is razor sharp. This is a go to lens for beginner / aspiring birders. The downside of this lens is that it's not a zoom lens and it does not have VR for hand holding.

Anyway, you'd notice that if you go deeper into birding photography, weight is inevitable and you start to buy a tripod for good support and stability. Hope you get a little bit of the whole picture because it will be more and more expensive.

Some people have opted with digiscoping because they desperately need the long reach focal length the setup gives. They are quite expensive too but you get quite a good reach and focal length with moderate weight setup. The other way to get good reach with light weight is to go with a Nikon 1 body, FT1 adapter and a lens like the AF-S 300mm f/4. That setup would give you a field of view equivalent to a 810mm lens. Some people also use the AF-S 80-400mm VR and get equivalent 1080mm field of view and still get VR. You can choose the cheaper 10Mp J1 or can opt for the newer 14Mp AW1 bodies. The electronic shutter available is actually very useful when shooting long focal lengths and it eliminates shutter vibration usually associated with mechanical shutter on DSLRs.

Aiyoh... Why have to take photo with the guy? Spoil lah. I prefer the series with her solo.

I think the model is also a crucial part of the equation.

This post has been edited by jchue73: Mar 12 2014, 01:26 PM

Forgot to add that the Nikon 1 is not very good at high ISOs. If I'm not mistaken, above ISO 800 and you will notice the image quality not there anymore.

The other thing to add is when using the FT 1 adapter, that the focus is limited to the centre only.

Regarding support, you still need a reasonable tripod because at 800 to 1000mm equivalent focal range, any kind of vibration is amplified.

On top of cutting out glares and reflections on water / shiny surfaces, landscape colours become more saturated. Blues on the skies becomes more blue.

But if the polarizer used is not thin enough, you get vignetting problems. Also, with extreme wide angle lenses and the wide angle of view (say 10mm on DX or 14mm on FX), it is not possible to polarize the whole image. Most of the time you get uneven polarising effect from left to right.

Haiya... Apa lagi you mau? Got D800 and now want a D5xxx?