Woops!

alexisonfire · 20 Mar 2007 at 01:20

Well i just went silly with the card

Bought a sigma 10-20mm HSM, nikon 55-200mm AF-S, Hoya 52mm CP, copy of Corel PSP Photo XI.

Might even get a nikon SB-400 as well, trying to decide if i would actually use it.
Would the sb-400 be good for night time photography of cars?

Raymond Lin · 20 Mar 2007 at 01:21

Try it without the flash first, use a tripod instead.

alexisonfire · 20 Mar 2007 at 01:37

Raymond Lin said:
Try it without the flash first, use a tripod instead.

I use long exposures and a tripod at the moment, was wondering if a decent flash unit would make things easier?

Also, if using a remote control for shutter release...how does bulb mode work? Press once for open shutter and again to close the shutter? Or does it work like the camera button, and you have to hold it down?

divine` · 20 Mar 2007 at 01:43

alexisonfire said:
how does bulb mode work?

Bulb + remote = press once to begin exposure, press again to stop it.

Raymond Lin · 20 Mar 2007 at 01:50

Flash and shiny metal objects at night = unnatural lights and not good results generally.

alexisonfire · 20 Mar 2007 at 01:53

divine_madness said:
Bulb + remote = press once to begin exposure, press again to stop it.

Purchased

alexisonfire · 20 Mar 2007 at 01:55

Sleep time before i buy a 50mm prime :rolleyes:

bigredshark · 20 Mar 2007 at 01:56

Do not get the SB400, it's frankly not enough of an improvement over the built in, spend the extra for the SB600, then you get remote mode as well, well worth it....

robmiller · 20 Mar 2007 at 01:57

Do you really find the D40's flash lacking enough to buy a Speedlight? What sort of things do you use it for?

Shoulda bought the VR version of the 55-200 too

alexisonfire · 20 Mar 2007 at 12:32

robmiller said:
Do you really find the D40's flash lacking enough to buy a Speedlight? What sort of things do you use it for?

Well after thinking about it, i don't really use the flash that much anyway, i don't do much indoors photography. So can't feel that spending almost £100 on an external flash is needed.

robmiller said:
Shoulda bought the VR version of the 55-200 too

It was cheap, and the VR version isn't out yet. The VR version would have probably cost me £150 more...

robmiller · 20 Mar 2007 at 12:51

alexisonfire said:
It was cheap, and the VR version isn't out yet. The VR version would have probably cost me £150 more...

£120, but fair enough—didn't realise the vanilla was so cheap.

alexisonfire · 20 Mar 2007 at 13:47

robmiller said:
£120, but fair enough—didn't realise the vanilla was so cheap.

Stop stalking me!

Vanilla? You lost me :eek:

syke · 20 Mar 2007 at 15:10

alexisonfire said:
Stop stalking me!

Vanilla? You lost me

The plain/normal one.

How much was the 10-20mm? Interested

alexisonfire · 20 Mar 2007 at 15:17

Syk3 said:
The plain/normal one.

Oh cheers for that

And to answer robs question, ya i didn't realise how cheap they were either. I don't think you can beat the price for a AF-S telephoto.

Syk3 said:
How much was the 10-20mm? Interested

270

divine` · 20 Mar 2007 at 15:20

robmiller said:
Do you really find the D40's flash lacking enough to buy a Speedlight? What sort of things do you use it for?

Once you try a proper flash you'll realise just how useless the inbuilt one is for anything other than basic fill flash...