spec me a DSLR

collisster said:
...and your like oh ok then and actually do it, I cant memorize all of this without having a camera to hold. anyway I've bought a nikon d50 with a sigma lens, and I'll let you know how it goes.
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Yeah, I guess you're right - learning through doing's the best way! Good choice on the camera and lens - I'm sure you'll enjoy it!

Looking forward to seeing some pics :)
 
right it has arrived, but of course I need help in working the thing, I've read through both of the manuals and I'm just wondering I've got it on M atm and why does everything at shutter speeds faster than 1/10th and at any aperture just come up as completely black? I've been fiddelling for quite some time and just cant get it, it works fine in auto mode but I want to start taking fast photos etc..

thanks
 
Because at whatever settings you've got it at it, not enough light is getting into the camera.

Leave M alone until you understand what things do. Use aperture priority, should allow you to figure out whats going on while the camera assists.
 
collisster said:
right it has arrived, but of course I need help in working the thing, I've read through both of the manuals and I'm just wondering I've got it on M atm and why does everything at shutter speeds faster than 1/10th and at any aperture just come up as completely black? I've been fiddelling for quite some time and just cant get it, it works fine in auto mode but I want to start taking fast photos etc..

thanks
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SidewinderINC said:
Learn then buy, it'll save you wasting your money when you take god knows how long to figure out what each bit means before actually learning how to use it in practise. by which time the camera will probably be cheaper or you'll have got frustrated and killed yourself.
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It's a slippery slippery slope from now on.... are you sure you won't resist the temptation to jump off the roof?
 
yeah w/e I'm starting to get used to the shutter speed and aperture trade off.
my physics teacher uses a Nikon AF 50mm 1.8D lens that he said is much better in low lights and allows to do the bokeh background better and is much quicker and sharper but I'm going to get to grips with this one first, why does the flash make everything blue?


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collisster said:
yeah w/e I'm starting to get used to the shutter speed and aperture trade off.
my physics teacher uses a Nikon AF 50mm 1.8D lens that he said is much better in low lights and allows to do the bokeh background better
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Of course it's "better" in low lights, it has a wider aperture available!

And you don't "do" a bokeh background, it's just the effect that occurs when the background is grossly out of focus, something else that you can achieve easily with a wide aperture (that's the low F numbers)
 
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yh at the lowest f numbers the fastest shutter speed I can use is 1.6 seconds to thats on A setting, why is this I know it has something to do wit the amount of light hitting the sensor but I would have thought that it would be much less


thanks
 
I think i'm starting to get the hang of this, I switched it to M put the aperture on 5.6 and started to increase shutter speed, kept doing this until it went dark then I upped the iso and its starting to make sense :D
 
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It's the only way to take pictures at night dontcha know!


Go there when it's light, set up your shot... and then wait till it gets dark.
 
That's how I do all my night shots, takes hours and hours but I've never figured out another way to focus at night :confused:
 
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