From http://www.mir.com.my/rb/photography/companies/nikon/nikkoresources/ --Why are Nikon lenses called Nikkors?
Nippon Kogaku K.K., more popularly known as Nikon, originally was a company resulted from a merger of three small optical firms in Japan back in 1881.... The company added an R to "Nikko": the Japanese abbreviation for Nippon Kogaku K.K.; and named it Nikkor.
It is an unsolvable mystery of the universe... or maybe they simply added an n and deleted a k from Nikko to make a five-letter word like Canon.OK, so where did Nikon come from?
For a given shutter speed, as light levels drop you will need either to open up the aperture or increase the ISO. If you both open the aperture and increase shutter speed (leaving ISO constant) you will be roughly maintaining the same exposure value. For landscapes, using a lowish shutter speed ought not be a problem as there will probably be little movement in frame - just got to keep the shutter speed above the point where camera shake will bugger the shot up - rule of thumb is, I think, to set shutter as the reciprocal of focal length, so for a FL of 200mm use a shutter speed of 1/200 of a second. Simply adjust aperture and ISO around this.garyi said:IN them 300 shots I learnt that as it gets darker one should set the aperture wider and the shutter speed quicker, ISO should be set lower as it was landscape with no movement and no matter what you do, do not breath on full zoom of a zoom lens lol.
Hit and miss photography can work, but implicit in your shooting style is a lot of misses. Digital encourages this because there's no cost to muddling your way to a correctly exposed shot. Maybe this isn't a big deal with still life and landscape photography, but this style would be nearly useless for streeters, candids and >90% of shots of iJunior, once he or she has arrived.Is there really a need for a light meter with a digital SLR? I fired off loads of shots and with the D50 the preview is on the screen before you can pull your eye from the eye piece, if its no good, then bam, one button and its deleted, a few adjustments and another shot is taken.
Horrible? I thought I was being helpful. Man, you really are delicate... like the gentle Prairie flower that withers in the summer's heat.Joe, don't be horrible to me, I am very delicate I am, me.
It's not about being hip. It's about getting the exposure right so you never miss a shot because of over- or underexposure. When you're cooking do you randomly add ingredients in the hope that, by chance, you might nail it or, do you try to get it right the first time, then tweak as necessary?Hit and miss is what I do, I have no pretentions of being a hip Photographer, and my hit and miss style today involves me looking at a scene and thinking what settings I need.
Not really. Unless the light goes from bright sun to cloudy to overcast quickly, one meter reading will be good for minutes, even hours.The light meter argument you present regarding street photos seems a bit off, surely on 'da street' as it were time is of the essence, bam theres a shot etc, farting around with your light meter before that surely destroys spontinuity and speed?
I've not noticed any difference, to be honest. Seems just as inventive and phonetic as always.My spelling is poor, I have no spell checker at work, I am sorry.
A tripod is used to steady the camera, whether you're using a prime, zoom or the biggest lens in the free world. Not the greatest invention for candids and streeters, but tripods do have their purpose.The main issue I see with zoom is having to look a complete geek with a tripod in my hand.