grat pics zio! lovely nikon colors. Your shots make me proud to be nikon user .

I was wondering is it safe to upgrade my D40 firmware? any users here have upgrade their firmware and what's the difference in application? Appreciate the info.

hi guys, sorry if this sound cliche but I was looking for a cheap tele with macro capabilities. Should I get,

a) Sigma 70-300mm APO

or

b) Nikon 50-200mm VR + extension tube.

Thanks for the advice.

This post has been edited by NasiLemakMan: Sep 15 2008, 01:31 AM

Thanks, so many choices for macro lens . Then there's tokina 100mm. I wouldn't be able getting macro lens at my current situation since I got just enough for zoom lens. Maybe another year or so. That's why I need to buy zoom lens with macro capabilities. Thanks mindkiller for your suggestion. I'd look into it.

Just found another technique, 55-200mm with reverse ring + 50mm. Reverse ring seems cheaper but sure is a little difficult and risky imo.

If MP a factor = D60
If manual focus rangefinder a factor = D60
Money, Image Qual, Dynamic Range, signal-to-noise ratio,tonal range = D40
Anything else = MasterCard


You can go here to compare D40 vs D60 sensors.

Physically d40 and d60 are twins with different eyecup and kit lens and sensor cleaner. price diff around 70USD.

This post has been edited by NasiLemakMan: Dec 21 2008, 03:02 AM

55-200mm nikkor is one of the best budget zoom tele lens out there. I'd say go get it.

what I did was 1st adjust the focusing ring with the distance to the subject. Then trying to focus the subject using the green dot. Then I shoot in 3 bursts while moving the focusing ring focusing sometimes from near to far others far to near. I used as small aperture as possible so to get wider DOF. Oh and a dk-21m helps just a little too.

For a start I'd use D60/40 which I considered good enough for me....If a choice of an upgrade, I will choose an F6 ...

This post has been edited by NasiLemakMan: Jan 9 2009, 08:34 PM

whoah! future D40xxxs dslr can have 50mp and clean ISO 6400 .

That's the easiest part. Composition, subject matter, exposure, lighting are really the potential killers here .

D40+18-70mm kit lens even better !

after ruling out ebay and lelong, did anybody knows where can I get this type of grip for D40 in Malaysia?





*note: textured

The brand maybe different but I know it all came from the same factory. Here maybe under phottix or phottix premium.
I'm looking for 'textured' ones not the ultra smooth one that I've seen pictures here.

This is site is tremendously helpful then
http://www.dxomark.com/index.php/eng/Image-Quality-Database

! be patient bro. Not everytime people would log in to meet your demands. Most of the good photogs here were busy taking great pictures than lepaking in this forum. Most of here were measurebators like me, concerning about the camera more than taking picture .

Either take D60 or go for Olympus e420/520 in my opinion. Olympus had great lenses for its price and the pros highly recommends their great services if customer service is what concerned you. Sony alpha , unless you're planning to get a minimum of sony's a900.