Wah lau, that will make a person sound like an Equipment Measurebator (level 1) in KenRockwell's 7 levels of photographers.

http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/7.htm

Wah if I had the cash I would go for the equipment lor but since not printing money, quite hard to achieve that.

Yeah, the white balance seems a little off. Were you shooting in AUTO WB because I always see that the Nikon D40 tends to get a warmer look when shooting indoors but always near perfect when shooting outdoors.

Here is the WB corrected version.



This post has been edited by Mavik: Jan 21 2008, 11:36 PM

Not all Macs have properly calibrated monitors as when you actually calibrate your monitor, it takes the light reading in your room as well or the location where your monitor is and calibrates it to suit the overall viewing condition.

The Spyder 2 Express is priced around RM400 at Eng Tong in SS2 but I got mine for RM380 during the Adobe Photoshop world conference.

Yeah, especially when I go out shooting events and all where I don't want all my eggs in one basket

But of course there is the constant hassle to change cards all the time

Difference in speed is 5Mb per sec but price difference is way more!

I learned that Digimate is pretty slow. Another brand is Nexto but they are costlier. It costs about around RM700+ for the casing without the HDD. But the neat thing other than the faster transfer rate is that it has a verify file function. Essential if you work outside most of the time.

If you shoot RAW, then definitely 2Gb not enough IMHO. That is of course for different occassions. Still, it makes good sense to always have a backup. You never know what might just happen right?

Yes, cameras like the D80, D200, D300 and D3 can be used as a commander unit where we can fire our SB-800 or SB-600 off the camera. Thing is that we would need to use the built-in flash to do that.

Oops, yeah correct, D3 needs an additional unit to trigger those flash. Sorry sifu

Yes you can, try Picassa by Google. It can read *.NEF photos.

Hrm, good point there. I think I installed PoctureProject then Picassa can view the files.

Edit: You can download the RAW codec files from Nikon Imaging Website to view them if you are on Vista.

http://nikonimglib.com/nefcodec/

This post has been edited by Mavik: Feb 5 2008, 05:09 PM

If I am not wrong, its around RM2550.

No quoted price yet but perhaps in the range of RM1.5k to RM2k is my best guess. I hope that with this new lens, the older version will be sold off at a cheaper rate.

You should put this in the Garage sales section mate.

That statement is invalid. Without a D300, how can you even reach that skill level you are referring to? Please join us at the D300 group

Won't consider getting the D3x because not the type of camera I am looking for. D3 yes, almost got poisoned already. Sooner or later, sure get poisoned. Really wan!

Haha you can't poison me man, the key is simplicity and only getting what you really need.

Anyway, lets stop poisoning all the D40/x owners here

Hard to see the noise when the images are cropped so small

Need to get the 100% crop and then compare it against, D40, D40x, D80 and D300 and you will see the difference, even from ISO 800 and above

*poison* *poison* *poison* *poison* *poison* *poison* *poison* *poison*