if i am getting both camera D3100 & 1200D at same price; i am confused to choose.
one more confusion is i am also getting additional lens offer from nikon (if i go for D3100), how to choose which is good for what? 55-200mm f/4-6.5G 35mm f/1.8G 50mm f/1.8G
i have an offer of either of 3 at half the price.
either one
is it worth to invest in additional lens?
which is more user friendly(Just click & take photo without setting; for non-enthusiast of photography) D3100 or 1200D or any other equivalent camera?
How can i find the age of any camera (Nikon/canon/sony)? is it possible based on serial number?
when it was manufactured & how much time it has been used? kind of details
@jackopen lens choice depends on the type of photography you want to do, the 55-200mm is only really particularly useful if you need to be able to zoom in a long way, that's quite a small field of view, 35mm and 50mm 1.8 primes are both nice choices and would depend on how if you are focusing on landscapes or portraits
@jackopen if you are going to cover multiple types of photography regularly, then it is probably worth multiple lenses yes
@jackopen the user friendliness is about the same but different. People will prefer one over the other when they use them generally, but there are people who prefer each. The cameras are so close to comparable that it is really best to go to a store where you can try both of them
decide based on which one you like the feel of and control layout better
one may fit better in your hands
@jackopen the age of the camera doesn't particularly matter, they last a long time, what matters a little bit more is the shutter actuations, because shutters are the part that has a shelf life, but that doesn't matter particularly much either as the shutter can be replaced and is a relatively small portion of the overall cost of the camera (probably around $100 to replace on an entry level mode)
and still goes to somewhere between 100,000 and 150,000 actuations probably.
it is possible to access the number of actuations from plugging it in to a computer or looking at the meta data on a photo sometimes
The little mermaid is the symbol of the whole Copenhagen, and in my mind it is far from random. When you take a selfie with the Little Mermaid in background, everybody will know where you are without further notice ;)
np, I get what you mean, it was a bit of anticlimax to see it in person. I thought the statue would be a little bit further off the waterline, like 100 yards off , or suchlike.
but yeah, like comparing to the statue of liberty, it has it's own island with an elaborate facility and boats to take people out to it and tours, etc, etc
there's all kinds of stuff around it
there, it's just a famous status apparently hanging out by itself
I don't like to go to tourist attractions, but we wanted to see it, and the restaurant street.. so you read my lips: i'm being shoehorned by my wife's willpower
I'd rather go to a lunch bar that the local working class uses.
there's the real Copenhagen, not on the restaurant street for tourists.
@AJH - ElendilTheTall been around lately?
Edited the crane and the radio mast away, and thought what @ElendilTheTall once said.. ;)
but then again, normally when I travel, I learn a lot about the area and go as native as I can reasonably, though I do that less so for cruises when I'm only in for a few hours
Got to see some tourist attractions too, but a lot of "not your average tourist guide" stuff :)
@AJHenderson That's the right way to do it, yeah
And then you have your family with you, and that pretty much ruins it. Though I got a wise woman for a wife, and a clever daughter, so they did not complain too much when I dragged them around :D
when her family went out for her uncles wedding in deleware, we all stopped by NYC on the way back. Her mother and sister went around 3 blocks of stores for the entire afternoon, her brothers and father went to a baseball game, her and I got subway passes and went from one side of the city to the other
Copenhagen Tivoli in the evening. That was the major reason why we went to Copenhagen. Ella loves these fun parks and zoos, and there's both of them in Copenhagen, so we visited them both :)
i run 2 x 1TB drives, which i use software to mirror one to the other. when they fill up, I type up an index, and put them in boxes. One goes off site and the other stays here and I pop in two new drives
I just keep mine external and keep the drives boxed. Found it the easiest. My stuff, I don't have clients I can neatly store images for and I often get asked for images a couple of years after they are taken
i used to use RAIDed drives but the transferral to shelve-able media was a pain in the backside so i didn't do it often enough
to be honest, you can get perfectly printable crop shots with less than 22mp. depends how big you are printing i suppose but I imagine most wedding stuff will be photo book size
no - i haven't tried them at all and I am not a video guy. it is more the principal that the firms are spending R&D time on stuff that isn't to do with my still photography :)
I actually screwed up the ceramony photos I was casually taking at my sister's wedding (thankfully I wasn't the photographer) because I tried using live view shooting and had never used it prior
yeh - it isn't a perfect shot and I darkened the edges a bit but it was a nice effect and they loved it (i was just shooting incidental shots, not the tog on the day)
yeh, just forgot about it, but when you said "memorials"... :)
There's a memorials for our wars on almost every graveyard here, listing the names of men and youngsters from that particular village/town who died in the war.
^ for the dead in our civil war 1918, men from a small town called Humppila.
Those were the men from the "wrong" side, the losing side, the Reds.
The Whites won the match, mostly by killing every Red they could find :P
It says "The victims of white arbitrariness" on the top. And then the long list of names.
What would you say: to straighten or not to straighten? Original http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5549/11020922604_be37d07b5a_m_d.jpg versus processed: http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5519/11067983625_e7f672bb6b_m_d.jpg
@JamWheel thanks! Thought so as well when picking a version for 500px (there it is). On Flickr though the unstraightened version got slightly more attention for some reason, so decided to double-check :)