Yeah, go carbon and never look back.

You sure can fit all of them together?

On mine, one side 80-200mm f/2.8, middle will fit a D800 + 24-70mm f/2.8 lens, a 14-24mm f/2.8 and quite tight already. Adding a SB910 speedlight on the little space on top of the 14-24mm f/2.8 will be tight.

Depending on the type of shooting, I take a Thinktank belt with Skin 50 and Skin 75 pouches and use Optech sling camera strap equipped with acra swiss clamp to grip my camera body attached with arca swiss plate.

If I want to take a little more on the go, I'll use my Thinktank Glass Taxi. It's been on the market for quite a while already but I find that it's pretty slim and small but yet able to carry quite a bit of gears.

If I need to take even more stuff, I use the Airport Navigator roller. Saves my back.

Nude some more.

One explanation could be that Picture Styles is used in the camera. LR does not recognise Picture Styles that the Nikon body applies to the NEFs. So when you use LR or PS for that matter, everything except the WB is not recognised.

Should just leave the dust alone or get Nikon SC to clean since under warranty.

Anyway, I believe the fine scratches will not affect your final pics. Perhaps 0.01% off. I'm basing the fact that you should not see the scratches on your pics or viewfinder just like you cannot see your fingerprints on your lens.

Just fix everything back on the camera and have a go. Check at all AF points under bright daylight are working and spot on accurate and view the test pics at 100% on PC monitor.


If you're fussy, send it to Nikon and have them access it and quote you replacement parts if required. I believe your wedding is very close? Turn around for Nikon service can be quite long. Expect about a month or so. The other thing is worry if they see you dismantled the camera body, they will void warranty and future claims.

Good luck.

Should go for 35mm f/1.4 leh.

24-105mm f/4L for 2k? Where?

Congrats.

Not really what you want but I guess this simulator might give you some idea.

http://imaging.nikon.com/lineup/lens/simulator/index.htm

Nikon's AF may be a tad slower but more accurate.

What's illogical about the 58mm f/1.4?

Have to wait for somebody to buy a 6D? Hmmm.

Then the lelong link by f5calvin looks more interesting.

The 35mm f/1.4 is slightly "cheaper". The 24mm f/1.4 is the one having similar pricing to 58mm f/1.4 and 85mm f/1.4.

I think you're referring to Canon? Nikon also got. 200mm f/2.0 VR.

Nice CLS work.

Where are you getting this lens? You're using it for architecture?

The one I'm lusting is the 24mm f/3.5 PC Nikkor.

Nice. Don't know if this was asked before but can you share your studio setup if you don't mind? Thanks.

Focus stacking with DSLRDashboard or Camranger. But only practical for still subjects.

Anyway, I have read that the loss of quality is still acceptable at diffraction when compared to if part of subject being out of focus because of DoF.

Test it out lah.

Else, get the 85mm f/2.8 PC Nikkor Micro. You can shift the focus plane so that every part is in focus.

This is my favourite.

Yes, the 24mm very pricey. But 35mm may not be wide enough for architectural shoot. But then again, you can take 3 shots in portrait (shift left, centre and shift right) and stitch them perfectly into one nice big shot.

Thanks. Yongnuo speedlightls via wireless trigger? What background is used?

On what body? It helps to remember to use the cross sensors. In terms of speed, not all AF-S motors are created equal. The ones on the 24mm f/1.4, 35mm f/1.4 and 85mm f/1.4 are one of the slowest.

Congrats. Those are goldies.

Buy a new bag?

How you know I have a 18mm f/2.8?

Didn't have the 20mm f/2.8 before. I still have the AF-D 20-35mm f/2.8 zoom though. Obsolete and Nikon replaced it with AF-S 17-35mm f/2.8 and now the AF-S 16-35mm f/4 VR.

Anyway, nice lens and spend most of it's time on my D700 as my walkabout lens. Now on the D800, I use the 14-24mm f/2.8 and interchange it with the 24-70mm f/2.8.

Don't know if it's correct or not but I guess there are different grades / sizes of AF-S motors. I guess the 24mm f/1.4, 35mm f/1.4 and 85mm f/1.4 are using same motor?

I do know however that the AF-S motor in the 17-35mm f/2.8 and the AF-S 80-200mm f/2.8 are the same. I know the AF-S 80-200mm f/2.8 has blinding speed on AF but I guess the same also for the 17-35mm f/2.8? No chance to test that.

The 200mm f/2.0 VR is a different league of sharpness and speed altogether. Perhaps the same too with the other tele primes.

Yeah, somehow the sensor makes for a better DXOMark score. That is why even though Canon has better lenses generally but when a Nikon lens is coupled with a Nikon sensor, the results tend to swing in Nikon's favour.

The 70-200mm f/4 VR is sharp, light and has better VR. The 70-200mm f/2.8 VR 1 vignettes wide open on full frame sensors. But then again, for what you're shooting, you're seldom shooting at f/2.8. So no worries there.

f/2.8 allows you to stack a 1.4x TC or 1.7x TC or even 2.0x TC if you dare for the added reach. The f/4 lens perhaps only allow 1.4x TC before it becomes too dark.

Anyway, if a slight increase in budget is allowed, the newly revised AF-S 80-400mm f/4.5-5.6 ED VR is nice. Great optics and flexibility.

On a side note, you should have gotten a lens instead of getting a Nikon body. Nikon lenses have international warranty.


You're speaking about the external glass surface and not the lens internals? Because lens internals surely got these microdust when you shine your torch.

I believe the "problem" you're having is your lenspen and microfiber cloth not clean. That's the issue with using them. If you want them to be perfect, you need to wash your microfiber cloth or buy a new lenspen when it gets dirty. I get around this by using ordinary lens fluid cleaner and with a soft good quality normal tissue paper. With tissue paper, it's always new and you don't get this microdust issue when you clean your lenses. That's what I do lah.

Anyway, the microdust is a very small matter as it exist everywhere and does not affect anything.

Perhaps you're not looking hard enough?

Many people confuse high fps and speed of AF acquisition. D800 and D4 shares same Multi-CAM 3500FX AF module and therefore have the same speed of AF acquisition. The only reason people use D4 is the huge buffer size.

If D800 had D700 fps (especially with battery grip option), then the D4 will not sell.

Just have to work around it and adapt to the tools available to you.

The setting you want is called JPEG.

Anyway, USB3 is godsend. Cannot imagine life without it when trying to transfers large amount of files.

It defeats the purpose of a RAW file because the RAW file is the "be all end all" file. You can derived infinitely different resolutions from a RAW file.

It would not make sense if you cannot get the camera sensor's full resolution from it's RAW file.

JPEG yes. TIFF not ! TIFF is larger than NEF / RAW.

Most of the time, the JPEGs are shot correctly and nowadays with high resolution, JPEGs are more than good enough for the newsprint to work on.

I see the only reason why Nikon made NEF / RAW files are for non-pro people like us. That's why I use NEF / RAW.

It's always said that 8MP is enough. But in this day and age, the sky is the limit. Having huge MP is a bonus in terms of flexibility. There are times when they don't get the most ideal composition and newspaper / magazine editors would crop what they want.

A properly shot JPEG fine on the D800 can at most times rival a JPEG converted from NEF / RAW.

What are your requirements? Light weight and compact? Your height and the weight of the equipment you want to support?

+1 There's bound to be some compromises. Very light and compact does not support camera equipment very well. So there is a cut off where you need to compromise on a the weight and the folded length to be able to support your camera equipment properly.

This is mine.

http://www.ylcamera.com.my/product.php?pag...dbrowse_order=0

Ballhead is K-30X instead of K-30 since it's newer and not mentioned on the website.

Price is a little better if you buy from the real store.

Other things you need to consider is buying is the arca swiss lens & body plates.

I think the reason why cognac suggested Times Square is because weekend also can collect. The SC in PJ is only open Mondays to Fridays.

Perhaps for normal stuff can. But complicated stuff that sometimes need explanation is best handled by yourself. But that's just me.

A few years back when the D700 just came out, I got one and brought it to Japan less than 2 weeks old and on that trip, my D700 refused to turn on. Luckily I had a backup. Anyway after coming back from Japan, I went straight to Nikon SC in PJ and got a new brand new replacement unit after 2 weeks back and forth bugging them.

Yes. Forgot about that. Good catch. Higher fps somemore (5ps vs 4 fps).

Actually, nobody quite understands how tripod companies rate their tripods on how heavy they can be loaded. When they mention 12kg, do they really mean 12kg?

For height, I don't trust the center column tripod extension. That's the bane of everything unstable in a stable tripod. I don't count that at all. I use my height measurement and base it the tripod height without the center column extended. For a true guide in tripod height, you can take this pic as a start.

Anyway, if you've used it before and if you're comfortable with it, by all means. I just think that for a price that low from Shashinki, there must be a catch. My rule of thumb? If you can get the tripod and ballhead for RM 650, somewhere out there you can get a similar speced and quality for 100 less or get a better quality combination for the same price. Just saying...

Love your street shoots.

The Fuji will be accurate but I bet it's slower than your D800.

If it was faster, every sports shooter will switch to Fuji liao.

For still subjects, is there any problem using Live View on the D800 for focusing?

That's why I'm more comfortable shooting street in other countries.

I think the reason we get this reaction is because when those people in downtown KL see a local guy with a big camera, they think that guy is from the newspapar trying to catch something awkward or something illegal.

Yes, shooting from a longer distance to subject will increase DoF tremendously.

But as long as cropping does not deteriorate your pics and your pics are mostly meant for web postings, should be fine.

I cannot imagine you describing your human subjects like you do with insects every time you shoot them. I think with your background, insect macro suits you very well.