new camera!
December 18th, 2006 Stephen Lau
we got a new camera over the weekend… the Nikon D80.
it’s been fun playing with my first DSLR… of course, the first photos i took were of the beagles. i’m particularly happy with this shot of the two dogs sharing a bed.
on saturday night we headed into the city with wendy’s cousin and nephew to have dinner and walk around Union Square and check out the Christmas madness (we BARTed in, not wanting to participate in the Christmas madness occurring on the Bay Bridge), and then on sunday we had a winter bbq (on a gloriously sunny day) with wendy’s family.
both opportunities gave me chances to play with the camera 
so far i’m loving it… it’s a wicked camera.
[tags: Beagles, Musings, PlacesToGo]
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Geoff | December 18th, 2006 at 22:05
Congrats. I’ve had a D50 for about a year. One of the best purchases I’ve made in a while. It’s fantastic for pictures of the kid (they’d be in the other room by the time the P&S finally snapped the jpeg).
One word of advice: get the external flash ASAP. Bounce it off the ceiling if it’s white. Use it in bright sunlight to reduce contrast. Makes pictures look so much better than the internal flash. I got the SB-600.
Which lens did you opt for?
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Oh — and don’t use Green Mode. Use ‘P’ when you just want to take the picture without any fuss. Start playing with M, A, and S. Never use the Vari-program modes. Set the focus point to manual selection with AF-A. Hmm… Try to blend ambient light (”dragging the shutter”) by reducing shutter speed, opening aperture, and/or increasing ISO when shooting inside. Try playing with flash exposure compensation.
And have fun!
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