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Originally Posted by Lisa1769
I'm ready to add a lense and tried some out at Best Buy and still was unimpressed. I'm wanting a good zoom lense for it. Any suggestions????
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When I used a Nikon a lot I had a Nikon 200mm f4.0 D ED IF Lens. It is pretty reliable and was really good for taking photos of things that were particularly small – flowers, insects etc. What were you going to use it for?
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Originally Posted by SuzeQuze
That camera does a good job of getting different areas of brightness to come out with detail. Or did you manually meter for that?
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Normally I manually set the camera. There are two ‘tricks of the trade’ that make the photos look better than they actually are. Firstly I almost always use a wide angle lens (Canon 14mm f2.8 USM II), not on an excessive setting but enough to get more image into the photo than a normal camera would. The pic at the mosque that I posted is a good example of how I lengthened the vertical view – more than you could with a normal lens. Here is a smaller image of it - you can see better at this size how I lengthened the shot.
The other thing I do is to use polarizing filters. I use one to take off reflected light. That creates the crystal clear view if you take a photo on a bright day. It just removes all reflected light, the glare you often see with the human eye. Again with the pic above the white marble created a haze so I removed it with the filter. On the pic above I also added a second filter to change the colour of the sky. I have a filter that has the effect of making the colour blue darker. The sky was actually light blue but as you can see I made it darker because I knew the white building would look better against a darker sky colour. The final thing, I usually focus the camera on the left as our eyes usually view things left to right.
So it’s all trickery really
