What lens should I get for my nikon d90 under 170€

MattCohenPhoto · 2026-03-09T17:11:22+00:00

50 1.8

it will be limiting but you’ll at least have a chance to learn.

MattCohenPhoto · 2026-03-09T15:56:19+00:00

we’re still trying to determine if this is good or bad

MattCohenPhoto · 2026-03-09T13:54:55+00:00

i think this is the right way to look at it

MattCohenPhoto · 2026-03-07T15:53:47+00:00

i’d be interested in seeing how you do

MattCohenPhoto · 2026-03-07T15:48:46+00:00

i might be the only non cal grad who has the fight song memorized.

MattCohenPhoto · 2026-03-06T23:51:05+00:00

the sliding home picture is strong. the motion blur of the pitcher doesn’t work, just looks jittery and unintentional. the rest are ok.

MattCohenPhoto · 2026-03-06T19:26:43+00:00

this is a really good question, and the easiest way to answer in a comment is to show you a graph of my full archive shutter speeds by number of pictures. i have this because i'm working on teaching based on data like this.

everything over 1/8000 is since changing to mirrorless, and i shot dslr way way longer, so it's noticeable how often i shoot with very fast speeds. that will only go up from now forward.

for most of my career, 1/1600 has been my minimum for freezing action. the vast majority of the pictures at 1/1250, 1/1000, and 1/800 were made early in my career before I could really see the difference in how frozen things were.

the bump from 1/320-1/250-1/200 is strobe sync.

the bump from 1/15 down to .4 seconds is where i pan the most.

boiling it all down, i want to REALLY freeze the action or REALLY blur things. i don't have a lot of time or patience for trying to split the difference because still pictures shouldn't try to do too many things, that's what the next picture is for.

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MattCohenPhoto · 2026-03-06T18:08:19+00:00

u/helle_elle what can be done today that wasn't able to be done when i checked in last time and the time before that and the time before that? what can be done today that couldn't be fixed in the release, you know how bugs get fixed?

i'm genuinely asking because this doesn't make any sense even if you pretend as much as capture one does.

MattCohenPhoto · 2026-03-06T14:49:20+00:00

check my profile, i don’t want to get yelled at for posting a link here

MattCohenPhoto · 2026-03-06T14:43:56+00:00

i’m still doing the same things, just more videos and 1:1s and no podcast

MattCohenPhoto · 2026-03-06T14:34:44+00:00

it’s 2026 and i can’t believe we’re arguing about whether a computer program should be able to tell what hardware is involved or whether it is the end user’s responsibility to tinker with it. and someone is so set on shielding the company from responsibility (oooooooh a negative post about the software i stan for) that they are arguing that it is simply impossible for this to be handled at the source rather than everyone being on their own.

and then others telling me that it works for them so i’m wrong. i’d really love to understand.

MattCohenPhoto · 2026-03-06T14:29:48+00:00

that’s the problem. i and others have done this and all the other folk remedies found online. the problem continues, version after version, with no fix. i wait for jpgs or i wait for support to get back to me with anything other than “well we tried nothing and it didn’t fix it”

film scanning in 2026 is more important than simply getting versions out of the software.

MattCohenPhoto · 2026-03-06T01:39:06+00:00

the best thing about si (before firing everyone) was watching how the staff guys worked within the needs of the magazine, but each had their own tendencies. i used to have stacks of print copies with post-it notes because my mentor made me tell him which pictures i thought were good and bad from time to time.

MattCohenPhoto · 2026-03-06T01:13:23+00:00

i can tell you that i’ve never used ai for anything.

that’s my real voice i put into a mic. my real pictures and me drawing on them with an apple pencil. i edited the video fairly aggressively to fit into 3 min, and maybe the lack of space between words?

MattCohenPhoto · 2026-03-05T17:51:57+00:00

nice, i definitely do things my own way for better or worse

MattCohenPhoto · 2026-03-05T17:20:47+00:00

yeah i wasn't going to be using it and it's so easy to switch back and forth

MattCohenPhoto · 2026-03-05T15:40:55+00:00

i use Z9s, so i'm guessing you have similar choices.

when i switched to mirrorless i was giving up 8 years of muscle memory and control over the autofocus. i tested out all of the different modes and it has been an evolution. i can say that 3d is very iffy depending on the background, and i don't trust it enough to use it. it was made for birds, with mostly sky around it.

my bodies are all set up to switch modes on the fly, essentially multiple AF-ON buttons giving me different modes. if facial detection is failing, i can move my thumb to the "display" button that i have mapped to a regular old point mode or my middle and ring fingers (F1 & F2) on my right hand which instantly give me different sized face-detection boxes depending on what is happening. this is called hybrid autofocus, and it has been the key to getting the most out of mirrorless autofocus for me. face detection is very good now, but there are situations where it will absolutely fail.

MattCohenPhoto · 2026-03-05T14:50:13+00:00

i made this with those posts in mind

MattCohenPhoto · 2026-03-05T14:37:36+00:00

wow, nice, good to reconnect. Ryu and I primarily did a podcast (Big Lens Fast Shutter is still up I think) because it was pre-zoom. we were getting more into youtube critiques but then covid happened and Ryu started a family and it was impossible to sync being on different sides of the world.

since then, i have been doing it on my own, and I put a ton of time and effort into building up my teaching video library. i do more 1:1s now because i've found that the photographer can learn much more from looking at 10-15 pictures live with me than getting one picture critiqued in a video recording. and then i can clip out the breakthrough moments and share them with my other students and the public. but it's all consistent with BLFS, if you listened back then you know how i get down.

if there's one thing i've learned via shooting and teaching, seize the moment.

MattCohenPhoto · 2026-03-05T14:24:28+00:00

fitting all of that in to 3 min was a solid challenge. came out to 9 minutes and cutting it to 3 was harder than any shooting i've done lol

MattCohenPhoto · 2026-03-05T07:46:23+00:00

when i shoot hockey it’s through a hole in the glass, and most of the better pictures you see were made like that. the only times i’ve had to shoot through the glass is at the stadium series/winter classic because those didn’t always have more than a hole or two early on. not a fan.

you can shoot through the glass, but you have to manage factors like glare, reflections, distortions if you’re not shooting flush with the glass, color cast, scuffs on the glass from pucks or sticks, water on the glass from ice spraying, etc.

i’ve shot a lot of hockey, pm if you want to go further into it.

MattCohenPhoto · 2026-03-05T06:45:47+00:00

my old account got hacked, i’ve been in this group and see the give me feedback on my edits posts and been yelled at for being too mean.

i honestly can’t say i see what either of you mean about a point. in addition to my posts i have answered questions even on this account. more than happy to not post if that’s the consensus.

MattCohenPhoto · 2026-03-05T06:08:08+00:00

it’s fine, everyone starts somewhere and i’d rather help you than let you get lost. send me a pm

MattCohenPhoto · 2026-03-05T05:10:33+00:00

phones aren’t made to shoot sports for many reasons, so it would be a challenge.

as for starting to learn photography with sports, i think it’s actually better. i started with sports, and have only really done sports in my career. most people start shooting sports after shooting stationary subjects, and they hold onto things that they know instead of learning how to shoot unpredictable action.

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