Finally got a DSLR!!

[Nate-Hawg]

I'm so excited! Now I have to learn how to use it properly. I've just been shooting in auto mode since I got it yesterday. Oh yeah, It's a nikon D90 by the way. If anyone has any advice for me please let me know. It came with the 18-105 vr lens. I've definately got to figure out the white balance to shoot good pics of my tank. They're turning out kinda funky. Also sometimes its focusing on things I don't want it to focus on. Obviously I've got a LOT to learn.

I'll post some pics tommorrow afternoon. I've got to get to bed.

 

["Umm fish?"]

Welcome to your new, second-most-expensive hobby.

Good luck!

 

[BlueCorn]

second-most-expensive

Second, my butt.

:lol:

 

["Umm fish?"]

Depends on how big of a tank you build....

 

[TitusvileSurfer]

Depends on how into photography you are....
If you gave me $200,000 I could spend it all on a small enough amount of individual items to use them all regularly. That is just still photography, don't get me started on video.

 

["Umm fish?"]

Yeah, I could drop $50,000 on a medium format body and then start buying lenses. Then again, I could drop $50,000 on a greenhouse and then start building a saltwater pool to go under it. Six one way and a half-dozen the other....

 

[TitusvileSurfer]

There is a lens I want (1000mm f/5.6) that would cost me about $100,000. One isn't any more expensive than the other...how dedicated to one over the other is the only factor there.

 

["Umm fish?"]

I love that lens...

drool...

Does B&H still have a used one?

 

[TitusvileSurfer]

Naw You would have to make an offer to someone who isn't looking to get rid of it.

 

["Umm fish?"]

The people who own that lens are the people who need it and who aren't going to find anything else like it, no matter what price you offer them. I doubt you'd find a taker except someone who's really desperate for cash or who's recently gone blind and can no longer shoot. How many of those lenses did Canon make? 30?

Isn't the minimum focusing distance like 100 yards?

 

[supercharger]

cool

 

[Nate-Hawg]

I finally read the sticky at the top and downloaded irfanview. I'll see if I can get this to work.

Here is a pic of my beautiful daughter Ella.

 

[Nate-Hawg]

I still don't know what I'm doing with this camera so this is the best I can do until I take a class. All I did was sharpen once and use auto color correction on irfanview.

 

[fishkeeper2009]

Nice, that's been a very popular camera lately, i see a lot of people using that these days.

 

[Nate-Hawg]

Thanks. I'm really surprised at the camera's quality of video too.

 

[xtm]

Pic looks good! congrats.. that's a great camera.