Hi all, I have been a keen photographer for some years, all though I haven't owned a slr for sometime. The OH bought me a digital slr (an early chrimbo pressie) only had it a few days on the whole I am quite impressed, except with one small point, on the old slr lenses the focal point was printed on the lens so you could work out depth of field & hyperfocal distance. My new dslr, a Nikon D3100 has no markings on the lens to work out depth of field, my question is, am I missing something here, or is this a Nikon thing, any help would be apprecciated
Thanks for the advise peeps. I too need to work out how to do that especially as the kids will now give me a bit more time when taking a photo. Been doing it mainly by eye up until now.
The big advantage of digital is that you can see your stuff instantly.
Try YouTube for DSLR tips I find it easier to understand when you can watch someone demonstrating what you want to do.
Good luck & enjoy your new camera.
I have a D3100...I'm useless with it. I thought I would love learning how to take proper photos, but I've found out I'm just not that interested and still using the auto setting. I'd love someone to show me how to work it properly.
If you only ever buy one book about photography, it's that one. It does not matter which camera you have, the principles of shutter speed, aperture and ISO are the same. It changed my life, photo taking life anyway.
I can remember when I treated myself to my first SLR camera, my sister bought herself one, and found a book, which showed the basics of things like depth of field. I Played around without film in it, looking at how the different appature setting altered what was in focus through the view finder. I also spend a small fortune on taking pictures of things like flowers where the depth of field was very narrow.
The great thing about digital is that you can see the results straight away. Nor does it cost you anything to view them.
I would say, go out an play - you don't need to take picture of anything exciting. Just play with the settings. Also with the manual focus.
I can remember taking the kids to the safari park, and put the appature setting in manual, and wondered why the camera kept focusing on the bars of the tiger enclosure, when I realised I was on autofocus.
Although I do still use fully Auto, more and more I am setting the appature myself, and more often than not use manual focus.
My next thing is to use the shutter setting on manual, and then combine it to fully manual.
Books are wonderful way of learning, but nothing beats actually getting out and using your camera,
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Topic: dslr help
