A quick followup
I just went on a trip to Yellowstone National Park with my brand new Nikon D80. Great trip and I loved the camera. I managed to take some great pictures and some not so great. But that is very normal for an SLR or DSLR unless you are an absolute pro.
In a DSLR you always have the option to go fully automatic, i.e., treat your camera as a point and shoot. Well, while you have that option you are also wasting your money. The beauty of a DSLR is to have the ability to control various aspects during photography.
Now if you are novice like me, these manual adjustments often end up making a bad picture :-).
Some of my pictures turned out bad because of what I think is a poor design issue with the Nikon D80. Don't get me wrong. I am loving this camera. The D80 does not display the currently selected ISO anywhere by default. You have to press on a button to see what ISO setting you have. So if you are in a forest and under the trees and hence in shade and you see some moving animals, you rapidly switch your camera to 800 or 1600 ISO to compensate for the low light and take the pictures. Then you walk away to your car and drive to a nice wonderful sunny lake and take more pictures. Oops!!!!! you are taking pcitures at 800 or 1600 ISO. You are compromising quality even though sufficient light is available. I wish the view finder or the main monitor had a continuous ISO display.
Now if I find out that there is a way to continuously display the ISO then I will rush back and correct this statement.
I soon hope to start posting some pictures and explain what I was attempting. But before that I may have a discussion of what software to use and whether to shoot RAW or JPEG or both images.
In a DSLR you always have the option to go fully automatic, i.e., treat your camera as a point and shoot. Well, while you have that option you are also wasting your money. The beauty of a DSLR is to have the ability to control various aspects during photography.
Now if you are novice like me, these manual adjustments often end up making a bad picture :-).
Some of my pictures turned out bad because of what I think is a poor design issue with the Nikon D80. Don't get me wrong. I am loving this camera. The D80 does not display the currently selected ISO anywhere by default. You have to press on a button to see what ISO setting you have. So if you are in a forest and under the trees and hence in shade and you see some moving animals, you rapidly switch your camera to 800 or 1600 ISO to compensate for the low light and take the pictures. Then you walk away to your car and drive to a nice wonderful sunny lake and take more pictures. Oops!!!!! you are taking pcitures at 800 or 1600 ISO. You are compromising quality even though sufficient light is available. I wish the view finder or the main monitor had a continuous ISO display.
Now if I find out that there is a way to continuously display the ISO then I will rush back and correct this statement.
I soon hope to start posting some pictures and explain what I was attempting. But before that I may have a discussion of what software to use and whether to shoot RAW or JPEG or both images.
posted by Gussa Waala at 1:02 PM
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