Recent content by Fresherjohn

2012 Colin Prior calendars were indeed being given out by lowepro by the door early on. I got one :p:naughty:

brilliant, that tables exactly what im after. yes tripod, wide lens and small aperture were all part of the plan. i'll hopefully give it a go this week if the weather drys up and will post if its a success. thanks

I've been thinking of taking a picture which fakes the depth of field to make a small item close up look like a much larger item in the distance. The hope was to take a photo of a toy car close to the camera and have someone in the distance jumping, which would look like they're on top of the...

cheers all. ive been looking at the en-el15 batteries for the D7000 and havent found any other knock-off cheap ones elsewhere so thought it might be a bargain. having had the evening to think about it, i might just wait for a genuine one to come up second hand.

anyone used this site? Prices seem too good to be true.

being 1.4, 2, 2.8 :) thanks all.

thanks all. i think this bit answers my question. In my mind I'd considered the focal length to be relational to the amount of light which could be captured. In reality its just the wider lens's which have the bigger apertures due to the glass. so a photo shot at 17mm 2.8 would look as...

I've looked into the differences f-stops make in the past, but earlier tried to compare a 30mm f1.4 lens to a 17mm f2.8 after reading some info on http://www.uscoles.com/fstop.htm i put the calculations into my own spreadsheet and found a 30mm f1.4 lens has an aperture area of 361 sq.mm, but...

sometimes when the batteries are running out the flash will not fire and the led display will flicker on and off like crazy.:bang: warning over. this happened to me yesterday and i thought the flash was kaput. turns out it just needed new batteries. :shrug: been through a couple of set...

thanks all, ill have a look at mono splitters and just using the others as slaves.

10 minutes googling hasnt provided me with an answer so i thought i'd ask the experts. can you trigger more than one flash with 1 skyport receiver? im assuming theres a 2 way dongle/adapter you can get which would split the signal and all multiples to fire? ta for any help

I'm sure I read somewhere the next gen of flashes arent far away which would be smaller, lighter and brighter, but I cant remember where. I read strobist (ofc) and the occasional mag. Did I dream this nugget of info, or could someone point me to a link with more detail? ta.

I've got the sigma 30mm already which was great for my D40x as it has the HSM, but seems a little heavy now with the D200. I wonder if its worth changing?

I've been looking at getting one of the new 35m 1.8's for my D200. Anyone got any personal experience or alternative suggestions?

any suggestions?