Well????? You've had the camera for at least 6 hours (or so). Where are the pics??? Of anything. Even your
foot like bwana does.
Nothing worthwhile yet, not even feet.
First impressions -
After a few hours of playing and reading I've become much more comfortable with the controls. Currently shooting mostly on "P" mode.
It's much harder to get good shots than I thought. There's obviously somewhat of an expectation gap with your first DSLR - you expect tack sharp vibrant photos from the word go, but the reality is that you need to learn the camera first. Practice, practice, practice.
The biggest difficulty atm is focus and DoF. These seem to play a much larger role in getting sharp photos than with the P&S. I battled with the auto focus, but it's getting better.
The noise and low light performance is remarkable and not even
remotely comparable to a P&S.
I played mostly with the kit lens, but also some with the 50mm prime. It's really fun - the "bokeh" (new word
) is quite amazing.
All in all the camera feels great in the hands, the shutter lag speed is awesome and it sounds great!
That's it for now, today I'll be shooting a few with decent light later today to really see what it's capable of.
I have a couple of questions if you guys don't mind -
1) Auto focus - after struggling initially I changed the auto focus to "centre" from the default 9-point system. That seems to help BUT I do sometimes get horribly out of focus pics when I focus lock and recompose - even with only a small horisontal recomposition. Manually selecting one of the 9 AF points seems like a schlepp control wise. What do you mostly use?
2) The owner of the camera shop sold me a UV filter - he says I should keep it on permanently, day or night. There seems to be different opinions about this. Do you use a filter?
Thanks!
