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How so? You've lived in a world that didn't have touch controls and weak-touch keyboards; what about it feels like its not the controls for a complex tool?
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I put them all on auto and press the button softly for auto focus and get pictures so clear I can see the fibers on a blanket.
The only thing I've learned to manually adjust for is shutter speed. You want it fast to capture rain drops in motion and lower indoors because otherwise you're shooting a horror movie.
I've also discovered the film emulator makes a dramatic difference. You want certain ones for land so colors pop and you don't want that of people because they look like they have jaundice or high blood pressure.
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The shutter button is two step, you half press until the camera is focused then push the rest of the way to take the picture. Your cheese was probably out of focus because you were too close. The closest your lens can focus is 50 cm (19.7 in) in normal focusing mode. When using Wide Macro autofocus mode you can get closer at 3 cm (1.2 in). When you're looking through the viewfinder you can use a finger to move the autofocus point/area with the touchscreen. Don't be afraid to bump the ISO up when you're shooting indoors.
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I used a Nikon D3500 most of my life but i need to replace it. Ether with another used one of the same model or a new camera. I notice they don't make mirrored ones anymore, any suggestions for a similar camera ? I mostly take wildlife and travel photographs for myself and put up on the wall.
Bobcat with a kill in the high mountains.
Mother wolf spider with babies on back.
Size of a finger nail Toadlet emerging from a dry desert pond.
Abandoned fort: taken over by vegetation in the southern United States.
Mother wolf spider with babies on back.
Size of a finger nail Toadlet emerging from a dry desert pond.
Abandoned fort: taken over by vegetation in the southern United States.
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Next step, shooting RAW and post processing it in Adobe Lightroom or open-source DarkTable or others. RAW lets you record more bits and fix it in post if you didn't notice. You can fix colors with JPG but you'll have less bit depth to work with. For the best of both worlds, at a higher storage cost it looks like it has RAW+JPEG so you can immediately get a JPEG to use and a RAW if you want to fuck with it later.
If you have Nikon glass, besides the kit lens, you can move to the Z 50 II with a bit lower resolution sensor and slap the FTZ or FTZ II adapter on it. Another alternative if you're not stuck on the DX sensor size would be to move up to a full-frame Z 5.
If you don't have lenses you want to carry over then I've heard good things about the Sony mirrorless, and they've been in the market far longer than Nikon in the mirrorless format.
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If you just want to stick to "entry-level" Nikons, you'd probably be looking at a used Nikon Z50 or a new Nikon Z30 (or wait a few months and get the Z50II) depending on your budget. You'd likely also want to get a FTZ adaptor so that you can continue using your F-mount lenses on a Z-mount camera.
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Now that's pretty!
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Amen, that ol Louisiana bayou
Wow, great pictures!
Do you still have the blurry cheese? May we see it?
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They'll start to feel more natural once you start using more manual settings.
Half-pressing the shutter locks in the exposure and focus to what is calculated for that scene. So if you lock focus on a far object and move the camera in front of a close object and take the picture, it'll be blurry because the lens was focused to a farther point.
If you lock the exposure on bright day outside and walk inside and take the picture, it will be underexposed because the camera set the exposure for a brighter scene.
You should be able to lock the exposure with the af / ae lock button on the back of the camera as well. You can try using manual focus as well, there should be a switch to switch between AF / MF. When using MF you can cycle the lens' focus back and forth (not the focal length, the focus) and it'll be a good learning experience because that's how people used to focus before AF was invented.
Similarly, try setting the shutter speed dial to A and take pictures of the same thing from f1.7 to 16, you'll see the difference in the background blur that it creates.
Great pictures; the fort one is my favorite. Nature reclaiming buildings is such an interesting thing to see and shoot.
If video is not important and you don't want to go mirrorless (so you can use your current F-mount lenses natively), you can get a used D500 (pro body with faster AF and burst features but not useful unless you're planning to shoot fast-moving subjects), D7500 (same sensor as D500 but scaled-down features) or D7200 (oldest of the three but scaled down D500 as well while still having a 24MP sensor).
Or you could get a lens based on what you want to shoot more of. Nikon basically has 2 sensors, the 24mp one in the 3000, 5000 series and the D7200 and the 20mp one used in the D500, 7500 and the Z series. Only difference is the processor and that the D3000 series can't use 14-bit RAW. F-Mount is being phased out so you can get good pro lenses cheaper in the used market now that a lot of people are switching to Z-Mount (if you live in the US / Europe / Canada that is, used markets suck at most other places besides Japan).
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If a toy is all you see it as, that is all your camera will ever be. Do you want to learn more?
I ask because it will be a large time investment to write the posts and don't want to waste my weekend.
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You know what, I just looked around at several guides online. Just use one of those, they're pretty good. This one called Photography Life is nice. Just ignore the awful nu-art.
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Love ghost towns, they're spooky but so magnetic at the same time. The abandoned place pictures kinda remind me of Nick Carver's work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHNxsibPLW0
I know the place from your previous post is unrecognizable from the photo but I think it would be better not to post the location online since it can get discovered and used by squatters or vandals or instragrammers. Better to keep good shooting locations to yourself or your close buddies.
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Yeah it's kind of unreal how nice it is to have a good camera. I thought it was just going to be a little toy to play around with but even photos I took of my starlink on the roof to show the csr it was not obstructed have this otherworldly quality where the porch lamp illuminating it from one side at night against the dark sky makes it look way cooler than it has any right to
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You have triggered my autism, you only need 6 decimal places to get accuracy down to the nearest meter at the equater.
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Does anyone have a good recommendation for a telescope that can be attached to my camera that doesn't break the bank? I want to take pictures of the moon and the stars, but I think a telescope is the sensible option instead of purchasing a super zoom camera or a new lens
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I don't know much about astro but I think the moon and stars are very different subject-wise because of the differences in their brightness and how easy they are to achieve focus on. I do know that various iterations of the manual-focus Samyang 135mm f2 are recommended for beginner astrophotographers : https://www.adorama.com/rk1352mfx.html
You can also watch this vid by a guy that looks like GamersNexus Steve's brother to know how far a telescope or lens can take you:
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I got a Micro Four Thirds Panasonic GF3 after I heard jersh talk about wanting a portable camera. I'm not really impressed, maybe it's because I'm used to my full frame, or maybe I just need to get used to it.
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GF3s are kinda old sensor-wise, especially if you're comparing the results to FF. A lot of the newer M43 stuff is crazy overpriced but an M43 with the newer and now stagnant 20mp sensor and built-in image stabilization will be much better; in that the results will be good to decent (based on your FF experience) and the system will be smaller and more convenient. IMO the real advantage of M43 lies in 1. zoom lenses, 2. macro photography, 3. video or 4. longer lenses. A run of the mill 70-300 will be like a 140-600 on M43, same with traditionally bulky standard zooms that are much smaller.
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unless your budget is pretty restrictive, portability shouldnt limit your sensor size. Even APSC would be a big step up from 4/3.