So I just won a Nikon on eBay...

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D50 was my first serious digital camera.

Loved it and using it taught me a lot.

Have fun!
 
It’s a good starter camera at a good price. The 35-85 will be fine to start with and then you can save up for a second lens.

There was a range of alternative instruction manuals written in a more user friendly format - I think they were sold under the ‘field guide’ or similar series. It’s possibly your local library has a copy. Tom Ang also wrote some books for beginners to learn from.
 
Pound Coin said:
D50 was my first serious digital camera.

Loved it and using it taught me a lot.

Have fun!
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Mine too, only dislike for me was that coming from film I found it annoying not to have the controls in easy reach.
I kept it and my daughter used it, she loved it but it came to a sad end when she left it on the roof of the car and it fell off.
Insurance company offered me a brand new D40 to replace it, but as I pointed out if didn't have an internal motor so they gave me a D90 instead
 
MrRichAllen1976 said:
What of? I don't have a chance to use it till around mid March at the first of a few annual comic cons.
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Anything, find something interesting in your house and keep taking photos trying to improve.
Go out your front door and see what you can see.
 
Get to know how to use it properly before using it in anger. See how assorted settings change the same shot. See how slow a shutter speed YOU can use at every focal length.
 
MrRichAllen1976 said:
What of? I don't have a chance to use it till around mid March at the first of a few annual comic cons.
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If you have a memory card and a PC digital photography is pretty much free so you can take pictures of anything and everything, your mam and dad, the journey home from your parents, trees in the park, maybe a squirrel, anything.

Plus as above, you want to be familiar with the camera before you go to comic cons.
 
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As above plus......

Knowing as best you can how to operate it means just that, it is not like the days of film....... shooting digital in effect costs 'nothing'.

Photography is a lot about "cameracraft" and developing your eye for composition.

By doing as suggested by the time you get to your preferred Comic Con, handling the camera should hopefully become 'second nature' and all being well give you some cracking records of the event :)
 
Yes, as others have said, you need to practice so that when you arrive at Comic Con in March you're more likely to come home with some decent shots.

At the basic level you can take some photos without leaving the house - but can go out and about to get other shots.
 
Nod said:
Download, read and understand! It'll tell you what cards it can take (from memory, SD but not sure how many GB it can handle) and where to put them as well as many other useful things.
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Plain old SD card 2GB limit.
So no to SDHC and SDXC.
 
sphexx said:
I wonder if that’d get you Noddy :LOL:
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Not really, just that it's always been plain Nod! Apart from when my niece started calling me Nob instead (much to my sister's delight!) so I started calling her Harlot instead of Charlotte. Soon wiped the smirk off the bitch's face!
 
Hopefully, Richard will sit down with the camera and the manual and get at least a bit familiar with what does what.

"RT(F)M" might be frowned upon as advice but IMO it's one of the best bits of advice to anyone with a new camera, especially if it's a significant upgrade from whatever they have had before.

Happy reading, Richard!
 
benc98 said:
Perhaps a local college or such run an evening course, might be worth checking out it could ignite a passion for photography
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I believe he’s doing some sort of photography course, so hopefully his tutor or other participants can help him out with adapting to it.
 
benc98 said:
Perhaps a local college or such run an evening course, might be worth checking out it could ignite a passion for photography
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Sheffield College does do a course at their Hillsborough Campus but it's 18.00 to 21.00 on a Wednesday night, and I have my Taekwondo class 20.00 to 21.00.
 
As a beginner myself i’d recommend:
charge the battery
stick in a memory card
look at the manual or one of the free online guides (i got one from ken rockwell)
take LOTS of pictures and experiment with the settings and understand what effect they have.
get friendly with the delete button !!!

This is the best part of digital photography: there’s near as dammit little cost or time to wait to see your results. This rapid feedback makes learning easier. For example i spent an hour last night taking my 52/52 picture. While an experienced photographer might know what would work, for me I can try lots of things and think about what looks good and what doesn’t. Enjoy your journey.
 
Be a bit careful with Rockwell. He can be quite entertaining but by his own admission, not everything he says is to be taken as gospel truth and if you don't know which bits to ignore, you could make expensive mistakes!
 
:agree: :plus1:

Ken Rockwell.....in the main needs to be read with a 'pinch of salt'!
 
Scoopful!
 
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