C&C please, and a quick question

[BlackSheep]

Aperture, shutter speed and ISO didn't change from film to digital. It may just be that your not comfortable with your new camera.

Anyway, love the Wood Duck....my favorite duck! The fist one was taken using f/2.8, 1/40, ISO 400 @ 110mm. That's probably why it may look soft, although it didn't look too bad here.

Oh, absolutely, none of the basics have changed. It's the level of, um, auto-ness (?) that I'm adjusting to. I like it, I like it, it's good (anyone who can name the song that comes from gets a prize!), but yep, it's an adjustment for me.

Wood ducks are pretty neat, aren't they? And thanks. I did run that shot through an unsharp in photoshop though, so it was worse beforehand. You should have seen the other shots, they were super soft.

 

[480sparky67 66]

I like it, I like it, it's good (anyone who can name the song that comes from gets a prize!),

Somewhere Down the Crazy River. What do I get?

 

[BlackSheep]

Hmmm, hadn't thought that through given the geography issues - I can't buy you a drink of your choice, we're too far away from each other. I did give you a "like", but am open to suggestion?

 

[KevinPutman]

Hmmm, hadn't thought that through given the geography issues - I can't buy you a drink of your choice, we're too far away from each other. I did give you a "like", but am open to suggestion?

I'm sure he accepts paypal!

 

[480sparky67 66]

Hmmm, hadn't thought that through given the geography issues - I can't buy you a drink of your choice, we're too far away from each other. I did give you a "like", but am open to suggestion?

Can you slip a D3x past Customs?

 

[photocist]

Probably soft because you shot wide open.

Take everything you learned about film and apply it to digital. Unless what you learned about film was wrong, in that case dont lol.

 

[mikehaugen]

I find that shooting digital is almost the same as my little experience with film- only much easier. You can change iso at any time- no more waiting to finish a roll and having to shoot 24 or 36 exposures until changing again or wasting film. Also changing white balance at any time. The most important thing to me was the much quicker results so it makes learning easier to me, before I had to wait for the film to get developed to see what effect different things would have and by then I would forget what I had done. Metadata is almost priceless to me. It is also much cheaper, no more paying $10 for 1 or 2 decent pictures and 23 bad ones. I would say that my camera has already paid itself off just in the saved processing fees. As another poster said, most functions remain the same as with film. Of course I had a transition film camera- an EOS 3, which had a lot of the features of newer digital cameras- auto focus, ett-l metering and ett-l flash so that made it a little easier.

 

[BlackSheep]

Ha ha Kevin how thoughtful of you to point out the paypal option! And 480sparky; nice try

Photocist; excellent advice, lol

And Mike, I totally agree, this is much much easier!

I'm looking forward to Day 2 of shooting now, hope I can improve from here.

 

[gsgary]

Don't shoot on Auto.
^-^

Hey, unfair - I'm an old-school, ex-photographer who was born and raised in film! This new-fangled digital stuff is wigging me out a bit. Therefore, I shoot auto right now

Bear with me, please, while I make the transition.

Shutter speed and aperture work the same with digital as they did with film only extra thing to adjust is white balance

 

[480sparky67 66]

Shutter speed and aperture work the same with digital as they did with film only extra thing to adjust is white balance

Film cameras have an ISO setting, but that doesn't change the speed of the film. With digital, you can change ISO for every shot if you want to.

Ha ha Kevin how thoughtful of you to point out the paypal option! And 480sparky; nice try .........

A D3s will work just as good.