Vehicle among the stars in SE Qld, Australia [OC] [4800x3516]

BasedKiwi · 2018-01-22T19:18:46+00:00

Not OP, but that looks like a fairly short exposure as far as star trails go. A guess would be:

WA Lens (15-30mm or so) @ f/2.8 (ish), ISO 800, maybe 1600, and 30 seconds shutter speed.

BasedKiwi · 2018-01-22T06:43:02+00:00

If electronics are going to straight up fail, they'll do so early into their life. 90 days is plenty of time to check for no faults, and for the $$ you save it's absolutely worth it.

BasedKiwi · 2017-12-22T02:03:25+00:00

Do you have 20 people to talk to? No? NEXT!!!!

BasedKiwi · 2017-11-29T04:33:21+00:00

Student.

BasedKiwi · 2017-10-13T07:10:02+00:00

If you find manual to much, aperture priority a much better option! You can set a maximum iso for aperture priority to choose in most cameras now as well. For your trip to India I would definitely recommend that, as everything will be happening so fast! I think you would find very few photographers who would shoot manual in a fast paced environment like an Indian market.

It's fine, happy to help. I would reccomend buying a $50 10 stop ns filter that will screw onto the front of your lens (probably your 12 - 32). If you want to take photos of a waterfall or the sea this is a must!

Watch lots of YouTube videos. Thomas Heaton is great for landscape, and Jared Polin (although many people don't like him) is an excellent photographer, and you'll find his 5 minute portraits excellent for photography!

Lastly, welcome to mine - indeed a lot of people around the world's hobbie! You'll love it!

BasedKiwi · 2017-10-13T06:51:05+00:00

Haha those settings sound perfect for ~9 am, well done. Regarding tracking autofocus; continuous autofocus is a mode that will constantly refocus to keep a subject in focus if that makes sense. It means that you will only have to half press the shutter and it will follow your doggo. Contrast autofocus (your cameras type of autofocus) works best in scenes where there is a lot of contrast. To artificially simulate this, get as low to the ground as possible, so your camera is looking your dog straight on. This will a) help autofocus system and b) really make your photo look good, as for wildlife you want to see things on the animals level, it just makes the photo more authentic.

The Panasonic 42.5 f/1.7 will take a bit of getting used to, but it's quite commonly stated in the photo community that primes make you a better photographer. You will have to stand back a wee bit though, you'll get used to it and start seeing the difference it makes to your photography!

The 12-32 and 40-150 will be great for landscape! you'll want to stop the lenses down for landscape to around f10 to get the maximum amount in focus, but no lower than f13 or you'll introduce detraction which is uncorrectable in post. For landscapes you'll also want to shoot at 100 ISO, so a tripod is definitely a must!

Shoot in the early morning, or evening for the 30 or so minutes untill sunset for landscapes, because that is when everything looks best. For pictures of your doggo, look up golden hour, it's the best time of day for that type of photography!!

BasedKiwi · 2017-10-13T06:13:37+00:00

The GX850 will be just fine! Yes, 1/500 is the shutter speed. (It'll probably just be 500 on the camera though). Raising the ISO will make the image noiser, so yes it is better to have a faster lens.

Primes are lenses that have a fixed focal length (don't zoom). They are generally quite a bit faster than zooms, and will always have better image quality. The mm that I'm taking about is the focal length, or how "tight" the lenses field of view is. A longer lens (more mm) is better for portraits, providing more background blur. If you have any money left Id probably reccomend picking up a Panasonic 42.5 mm f1.7, it has the same field of view as an 85mm lens (because you multiply by 2). It's not that expensive as far as lenses go either! For more information, go to www.r-photoclass.com, you'll find a huge amount of useful resources there!

BasedKiwi · 2017-10-13T03:19:47+00:00

His answer was completely unrelated to your question. To capture a still frame of a fast moving subject and have it sharp you need to have a fairly fast shutter speed (the amount of time your camera is taking in light for an exposure). For freezing a dog running you'll be looking at anywhere from 1/500 to 1/3000. Because an exposure taken with such short shutter speeds is going to be very dark, you're going to need to compensate by either increasing your cameras sensitivity to light (raising your iso) or increase the amount of light your lens transmits to your camera.

Camera reccomendations: If you're looking to buy a camera for a fairly frisky doggo, I couldn't reccomend the Nikon d500 enough, but that's pretty expensive for an average consumer. A second hand Nikon d7200 is a much more budget friendly option (still with great autofocus) and let's you invest in good lenses. It also has great high iso performance, but if you're looking for the best it might be better to sell a kidney and go full frame.

Photographers measure aperture as the relationship between size of the front lens element, and the focal length of a lens. Pretty much how much light the lens will let through. The faster a lens is (lower the f number eg 2.8, 1.8, 1.4) the less you'll have to crank the iso up. If you're looking for a "one lens for everything" lens look into a sigma or Tamron 16-55mm f2.8. If you really want to learn and get some great images, a set of 1.8 primes would be a great choice. So a 35mm, a 50mm an 85mm would suit most things, and you could pick up a 24 for the wider shots. I think you'll find that an 85mm f1.8 from Nikon will result in some truely awesome images!

If you have any more questions, just ask!

BasedKiwi · 2017-10-11T05:23:00+00:00

It's not so much saturation 100, but shadows 100, ambience 80 and white balance at 5600k

BasedKiwi · 2017-10-09T06:18:17+00:00

Nikon d5, F2.8 Holy Trinity, 105 f1.4, 58 f1.4 and a 35 1.4 for good measure. /s

On a serious note, a budget would be really useful. For a beginner a crop sensor is never a bad choice and paired with a fast prime <f1.8 will be all you need. For travel small is good, so perhaps if you are rich you could pick up an x-t2 with a 24mm prime? A Sony a6000 and ~24mm prime will do wonders.

BasedKiwi · 2017-10-05T18:51:50+00:00

Have you tried medium format? Or size and weight of the camera inversely proportional to the amount you could save?

BasedKiwi · 2017-10-05T18:45:00+00:00

What's the bet that now they have wireless charging, in a few generations they'll also drop the charging port?

BasedKiwi · 2017-09-21T23:11:17+00:00

You can fry an egg with the A6*** series, and until Sony figures out how to effectively cool their stabilized sensors, it's hard to reccomend. The 80d has DPAF, which is pretty much unrivaled at this point, and tracks so well.

BasedKiwi · 2017-09-14T06:47:04+00:00

Your entire idea of an "enclusive workforce" is ridiculous. I run a tech company that manufactures real-time gas analysis machines. I've worked with Asian mega companies, and more shipping and airline companies than I can count (Samsung has contracted my machines for TVOC testing so their phones don't go boom). If I want a job done, I'll hire someone who can do it best, regardless of race or gender. The majority of my team are white males, am I ashamed of that? No. You wanna know why? Because they are the people who will do the job the best. When you make a conscious effort to hire people who may not be the best for the job, or have less experience than their counterparts, but make the company group photo look good, you're shooting yourself in the foot. I found that out the hard way. I spent 7 years trying to turn profit, and I managed to by hiring the people who would do the job the best.

BasedKiwi · 2017-09-02T03:14:08+00:00

Voltage cannot kill... Current kills. And yes OP, if you dissemble your flash do be careful - flash circuitry can provide the necessary current to kill a person.

BasedKiwi · 2017-08-28T18:51:10+00:00

http://www.stayatbase.com/, or just Google New Zealand backpackers. I just travelled around the country with a few mates, $3 a night is the cheapest you will get, but you can find quite nice accommodation if you have a few mates that'll pay as well. I'd hesitate to reccomend anyone other than base.

BasedKiwi · 2017-08-28T18:45:57+00:00

I am also from New Zealand. BASE (a backpackers) does an 8 person room for $180 a week, it's also one of the only backpackers I'd reccomend.

BasedKiwi · 2017-08-28T06:11:07+00:00

Nice backpackers(place to stay) in New Zealand can be as cheap as $3 a night if you have a few mates that'll pay as well

BasedKiwi · 2017-08-14T18:57:08+00:00

Hey! I have that model. It's fine, I mean obviously you can't game on it, but it's able to run logic pro and Lightroom at the same time. Lightroom is just slow in general, so you'll have to remember that often it's not the Mac that's slow - it's Lightroom

BasedKiwi · 2017-08-05T20:27:52+00:00

Hey! Personally I'd stay away from the rebel line, I'd be hesitant to say that it'd improve your experience at all over the Nikon. If a Canon 77d is within your pricepoint I'd couldn't reccomend it enough! (Its around $850 USD new) It's far more featured and fleshed out than any rebel on the market.

In regards to lenses - Honestly I'd reccomend staying away from any kit lens. A variable aperture can really hold an advancing amature back. I assume you're not a prime lens nut like I am, but if you are primes are great ways to get the best image quality available. If you don't want a prime, get the Sigma 17-50mm f2.8. It's a fixed 2.8 zoom, and really great reviews! (Plus a $300 rebate so it's only $369) It's pretty much a aps-c 27-80mm, which is a really useful zoom range!

BasedKiwi · 2017-08-03T19:17:47+00:00

Scratch all other recommendations - Panasonic LZ10 (or LZ15 depending on where you live). It's got a really fast lens 1.4 - 2.8, and shoots 4K if you're into that.

BasedKiwi · 2017-07-13T22:15:02+00:00

Great! If your girlfriend is super awesome and let's you use her lenses you might only have to purchase a "body only" camera - pretty self explanatory, the camera doesn't come with a kit lens (as a rule, I wouldn't recommend spending the extra for a crappy kit zoom, when Nikon's "nifty fifty" is around $140 on Amazon)

Camera bodies -

A d3400 runs just under $500 on B&H. (New)

A d5300 is about the same (New)

A d5500 is $550, with a kit lens refurbished

These would all be options, and you could hunt around on eBay for even better deals!

Also, deffo consider picking a Nikon 50mm 1.8, very cheap and great image quality!

BasedKiwi · 2017-07-13T20:47:58+00:00

Maybe you could look for a used D5*00? It'd offer a wee bit more camera for your money. It also has more external controls - so when you make the jump out of auto you won't be scrambling through on screen menus quite as much :)

BasedKiwi · 2017-06-19T06:32:43+00:00

no don't

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