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Just got back, mightily impressed with the 18-200. Throws backgrounds out of focus nicely, and is probably as near to an all-round high quality lens for walking around as you are going to get. Certainly felt like I chose the right lens (rental was about £29 for a week iirc, I just got it for the...
Just to pre-empt an moaning ;), I'm well aware I need to sort out a poll, but I have an unbelievably busy couple of days to get through first, I wouldn't expect anything until next Wednesday.
Awesome, you've found the most American looking street in Britain, I reckon. Change the plates a a few background details (such as signs) and you would never know.
I've just hired an 18-200 VR for my Paris trip this weekend, can't believe how tiny it is!
Bit slow compared to the 50mm but hopefully the VR will claw back a couple of stops. Never used VR so that will be interesting.
ISO800 seems to be the sweet spot for low light, not too much noise and what there is looks quite nice and grainy anyway.
The ISO3200 shot is the biggest surprise, as you might be able to tell from f1.8 and 1/30 that I still needed, it was pretty much acting as a night vision camera with...
Gave the D90 a good high ISO workout this evening, had it in my bag and just grabbed it for some 'smash and grab' type shots whenever something interesting appeared (the sort of thing I like to do in the daytime), the beauty of this was that I could do the same in darkness as I could in the day...
Amazing improvement over a very short space of time. It really is all about the practice, there are no shortcuts. The BSB Raceday Take 2 (wheelie shot) is where your images really jump up a notch in my opinion.
Shame about the creativity vs. saleability thing (although after seeing the sort of...
Followed RIXPH home today at around 5:40pm, I was heading down to my house (Paxcroft Mead) and was a car behind you.
Also, guy sat in a Blue V6 in Aldi car park on his mobile phone whilst my other half was buying some massive fireworks.
It is unbelievable, main aim for the next year or so is to just get a really good experience-filled portfolio together, so all these little jobs/competitions are doing wonders for that. To be honest I don't really 'get' it, I sit on Flickr and am blown away by the stuff I find on there, so I'm...
Cheers peeps, comments always appreciated.
All going slightly mad at the moment, been offered some all expenses paid freelance work in Paris this weekend and then have some work for a car manufacturer coming up as well. So so chuffed, it's been reasonably quiet compared to last year but it's...
I'm probably never going to 'get' it, but most of those in the OPs post look absolutely horrific imo. The VanillaDays pics are a bit better, but most are still very obviously HDR.
I appreciate the concept as I understand that a camera sensor simply cannot record what the human eye can see, but...
On the resolution thing, I really don't think it's something you need to be concerned about, I've been quite lucky in terms of things published etc in the past 2 years and 'only' having 6mp was never once an issue, even for the double page magazine spread (A3), pictures don't get published much...
Body only for me, couldn't stretch the extra £120 for the kit lens, but I don't think I would have even if I could afford it, would have rather put it towards a Sigma 10-20 or something.
That's exceptional, great capture and the subject is nice and sharp too (unusual for these sorts of shots)
What circuit, out of interest? You look close for 55mm!
One of these
The dragonfly pics were taken with it and the 50mm in this gallery, and the first spider pic was with it and my D50 kit lens...http://www.chrisharrison.smugmug.com/gallery/2602037_zznf4
I've always wondered what/why that is. I always shoot at ISO200 but my really slow panning shots on my D50 were full of noise and grain when viewed full size (as if I was shooting at a much higher ISO). There certainly is some noise in these shots but the conditions were awful; horrible murky...
The heavier the better for me (within reason!) when it comes to panning, particularly as I don't use a monopod and 99% of events are in annoyingly strong wind in this country. The 120-300 is pretty much on the limit, but especially now I have a grip it's a really nice balance.
Nothing of great interest here, but thought I would share a few photos from the couple of hours I spent at Combe today as I bought a new camera, and unless my eyes deceive me these possibly look a bit better than many of my previous photos, just something about them...
I have a Close Up Filter (a +4), essentially just a magnifying glass that screws onto my 50mm 1.8 and turns it into a pretty reasonable macro lens. Very cheap and effective.
Never really given any thought about the gaps to be honest, I've never had anything that fills the 20-50 gap (I only took...
Body only, so just got the 50mm 1.8 and Sigma 120-300 2.8 at the moment. With Christmas/Birthday money I'm hoping to get another Sigma 10-20 before I go to New York.
Agree with most of that, won't really make any difference to the majority of my photos (I never expected it to) and to be honest unless you spent megabucks and went full frame I don't think you would ever really notice a huge difference.
Most of it is down to making everything quicker and more...
The other thread turned into some completely unrelated Canon warfare, so I'm starting fresh with my thoughts on the D90 after two days of use as I know a few people were interested.
Obviously this is all compared to the D50, so I've never had Live View or anything remotely technological before...
I promise this is my first and last naff/boring/pointless Windows Movie Maker vid (hopefully get Premiere Elements or something soon...and some decent subject matter), but it gives you an idea of how stupidly easy it is to make effective footage...
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Easy answer:
Hold all the cameras in your price range.
You will probably answer the question yourself after doing that. Photographically they are going to be essentially identical, none of them will give you better pictures than the other.