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trying out a nikon d40

2008.04.25
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new rainbow coloured hoodie. on Auto-focus: only focuses at about 10 cm. I tried manual but it was even worse (need to read the boring manual, i presume)

brilliant from 25 cm. Not half as good as the fuji at 5 cm, plus it has some sort of automatic brake and refuses to press the butten when it's not well focused which I find annoying

random yellow-green flowers along my way home - 1/4 cropped from original (this was JPEG Normal, not RAW). i suppose this is the way forward., since I have no bigger lense- photograph larger, then crop.

this could have been done with a tourist baby camera just as well, if not better. But i don't have a picture of the Uni house so i kept it.

phew, this needs a 1` aligning. no time for that now.

colours shaded - it was too sunny. I've got no photoshop on this pc, so can't meddle with that.

that's just plain funny! It says moderate conveniences instead of modern! (which itself is a 1970's phrase, if I'm not mistaken)

Enlarge please: looks much nicer. While waiting for the bus, I was playing with light aiming my friend's camera at the endearingly ugly molecule statue at Warwick (one of those you love when you know what they mean but dismiss before that - it represents a DNA and celebrates a Warwick-made discovery, plus it's symbolic of human freedom -one of the elements is in a cage and the other one free - but you can't see that in this photo)

always wanted to photograph this door.

sunset light makes redbrick towns glow in ginger colours - without exaggeration, this colour palette is one of the reasons why I love England

ok, the nikon lense distorts less than the fuji one - look at the edges. I'm quite pleased with this discovery. And, I love 2D shots of surfaces.

looks better enlarged

clear, well focused shots from a moderately close distance

Discovering the aperture settings. Yay, I managed to get the focus on the lower righthand corner! The little fuji couldn't do this: it had a natural aversion to focusing on corners.

wide (or high? i don't know what is the right word) aperture again

am i hallucinating, or does it get a little darker in the edges (again, I lack the English term for that). This is athe awesomest house number ever!

just a cute car, and a good red colour even past sunset.

i borrowed a nikon d40 18-55 from a friend today...what an awesome change from my good old non-dslr fuji finepix 5500. The lense is a bit annoying - no really close shots unless i do that in RAW and crop mercilessly, and not very good at landscapes, but the quality is crystal compared to the little fuji. I'm still a canon-adept (not having even owned one) but i really enjoyed this nikon! thanks, S!
6 Comments
milan neat:)
milan · 2008-04-26: 18:17
prilade interesting & beautiful. fresh :-)
prilade · 2008-05-04: 08:32
shelburt Oooh - I love 2 and 3! I want a Nikon now! My Samsung GX10 just seems to produce really faded images :(

Regarding #17 - I think that perhaps the word you're looking for is "vignetting" ?
shelburt · 2008-05-04: 20:10
mahda i like it!! great!
mahda · 2008-05-29: 14:13
jameswaters #8 is hilarious, what a fantastic find!

you know, as much as i enjoy playing with fancy cameras and expensive lenses (both definitely only on loan from kind friends)... it's probably a lot more valuable to shoot with a camera you enjoy using then to worry excessively about clarity or pixels. If you enjoy getting up close, but a fancier camera won't let you... then surely it's a crappier camera!

I did see darkening at the edges in 17... so if you hallucinate, we hallucinate together! (This is possible, there are funny visual illusions that happen in photos all the time!)

#15 is a fun photo :-)
jameswaters · 2008-05-30: 23:43
carvertrujillo Enjoy your new camera.. lovly set. Cheers...!!!
carvertrujillo · 2008-06-22: 17:33
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