Recent content by jrad

So I have just started using Adobe Lightroom and really love how it works but have noticed a strange "problem" when looking through my pictures in both the catalog and develop modules. When you initally load an image the colours generally look spot on, as in they are not too flat. But once...

Thanks guys, good to be here. I need plenty of help - especially on indoor photography! So hard to keep the ambience of the room while still getting a clear shot that is not too shallow in DOF! To the help section I go :)

Hi all, James here. Joined a few weeks ago and just got around to completing this post now :) Pretty new in photography, always been a point and shoot man and my dad finally turned me round to the world of SLR. I have to say that I had no idea how much fun I was missing! It's really a...

It is the HSM version! I was using AV mode but even in manual and auto modes it was not working. Anyway I have returned it to Microglobe for a full refund :). In the mean time I have bought a Nikon 18-200 lens which focuses very quickly and has better range. As a newbie I think that and the...

I was in a reasonably lit room (630pm with no lights on but plenty of windows...) when i first noticed it. I was about 4 or 5 metres away from the item I was shooing and zoomed right it. Then when I went out later It was even worse. granted it was a bit darker but I wouldn't expect it to be this...

It is on a brand new d90. 2 days old... Auto focus works perfectly on my other lens (50mm 1.8d) which made me think it wasn't the body. It does focus when not zoomed in just seems to have a lot of problems when zoomed up close.

Hi there, I have just bought myself a Sigma 17-70 HSM lens for Nikon however I am finding it is having major problems auto focusing. It only seems to be at the 70mm end of the range. last night I was out taking some shots and the focus just cannot lock at all sometimes. The lens...