Friday 14/11/08- The Poll

Originally Posted by TSM

Well i wont be getting one of thoes then, very silly of them, renders all pre D40/D60 lenses as manual ones. grrr.

But both are very very nice cameras. Besides I just want the auto focus because I am lazy sometimes.

Originally Posted by anna

Geeks the lot of you

(can you tell i´m missing you really??)

Who are you again?

I hope you are having fun on tour. Most of us miss you. The ones that don't are not with us.

Originally Posted by anna

Geeks the lot of you

(can you tell i´m missing you really??)

Ok, who let her back in?

Spidey and I locked the door and changed the locks, which one of you mad fools sneaked her back in?

















Miss you really hun!

Originally Posted by Raf

Sadly there isn't a 50mm f/1.8 prime lens with an auto-focus motor for nikon.

Yet! (can you tell I'm waiting in the sidelines too?...)

You have to go up to f/1.4. C'mon Xmas, arrive already!

*sigh*

Originally Posted by Raf

Aha! Nikon D40, D40x & D60 don't have motors built into the body. Hence, if you want auto focus the lens must have it. Which means you can't buy the cheap £80 50mm prime, you have to go for the more expensive lens that have the motor. (Prices starting at £289 + delivery). And lots of little lenses have motors, my kit 18-55mm has a motor in it.

Or you can learn how to manual focus, I've got some really great results out of a loaned 50 mm. Sure it's slower than auto focus (and I wouldn't use it for action pics unless I could pre-focus, blablablah), but it's a wonderful portrait lens, aided by the fact that on every Nikon DX camera it's a 75 mm equivalent (short telephoto). Now combine that with the beautiful bokeh when wide open and you can get creamy blurred backgrounds for £80. And stopped down from f/2.8 it's as sharp as they get.

Yes I'm drooling!

[jambo]

Originally Posted by TSM

Well i wont be getting one of thoes then, very silly of them, renders all pre D40/D60 lenses as manual ones. grrr.

You want a nice Canon you do...

That said the D40, D40x, and D60 are a hell of a lot of camera for the money...

Originally Posted by anna

Geeks the lot of you

(can you tell i´m missing you really??)

Hey, I used to know someone called Anna! She earned a living by standing by the light switch in theatres and turning the audience lights on and off at intervals or something. Do you know her?

Jambo

Originally Posted by jambo

Hey, I used to know someone called Anna! She earned a living by standing by the light switch in theatres and turning the audience lights on and off at intervals or something. Do you know her?

Jambo

I believe she's been promoted now, they're letting her have a go with all the cool sound stuff!

Originally Posted by Filipe M.

Yet! (can you tell I'm waiting in the sidelines too?...)



*sigh*



Or you can learn how to manual focus, I've got some really great results out of a loaned 50 mm. Sure it's slower than auto focus (and I wouldn't use it for action pics unless I could pre-focus, blablablah), but it's a wonderful portrait lens, aided by the fact that on every Nikon DX camera it's a 75 mm equivalent (short telephoto). Now combine that with the beautiful bokeh when wide open and you can get creamy blurred backgrounds for £80. And stopped down from f/2.8 it's as sharp as they get.

Yes I'm drooling!

Yes I am learning to take photos using manual focus. However, I find the viewfiender a bit painful sometimes so I always take a backup shot with the manual focus just in case. Some of my best shots from the AR and my trip to australia was using MF.

I often prefer using manual focus if I'm not getting action shots, sometimes its annoying using the auto focus when it focuses on something I don't want it to focus on. That being said, I would want my lense to have autofocus built into it whatever I get. SO i might be waiting a while to get another lense (let alone three) because of the monies

I think I could live without autofocus though for portraits, which is what I would use a lense with a low f number for anyway. Portraits is something I want to learn to do well




wonder if my uni does a night course in photography?

Originally Posted by Raf

Yes I am learning to take photos using manual focus. However, I find the viewfiender a bit painful sometimes so I always take a backup shot with the manual focus just in case. Some of my best shots from the AR and my trip to australia was using MF.

Sorry Raf, I just quoted your reply but I meant AlpineTopboxHero, I wasn't having a dig at you
As a side rant though, the D60 mini-viewfinder kind of sucks for MF, it's just too friggin' small... thank god they've put a rangefinder in there, but we could really use more than 3 spots... oh well, entry-level DSLRs and all that.

Originally Posted by Filipe M.

Sorry Raf, I just quoted your reply but I meant AlpineTopboxHero, I wasn't having a dig at you
As a side rant though, the D60 mini-viewfinder kind of sucks for MF, it's just too friggin' small... thank god they've put a rangefinder in there, but we could really use more than 3 spots... oh well, entry-level DSLRs and all that.

Apparently you can change the little zoom finder lens thingy for a bigger one, which I am seriously considering so that manual focus becomes a lot easier.

Originally Posted by Raf

Apparently you can change the little zoom finder lens thingy for a bigger one, which I am seriously considering so that manual focus becomes a lot easier.

Please let me know if you do, I might be interested in that too.