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Digital SLR / DSLR Camera Question / DSLR Thread 2

My daughter, helping out at the wedding. She's got the D300, 17-55, and PW, I had the D40x and 70-200.

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Okay, done playing around. Back to sorting through 2200 shots from the day. :wow :|
 
Going through the wedding pictures more carefully now, I'm very disappointed in the D40x's performance. ISO800 seems to be the absolute limit, and even those images do NOT allow me any latitude in exposure adjustment. Even pushing them a half-stop higher is resulting in noise that's just not acceptable to me. :(
 
I just bought a new canon T1i to replace my XSi. I powered the camera up and took a few pics to test. One of the first things I did was change the screen colour. This was fine for a few pics but now the screen is blank as if the camera is not on. I can take pics but they won’t display nor can I get anything to display from pressing the menu button.
If I go to manual settings a try to put in live view still nothing. Any ideas?
I got a trip coming up this weekend and no working camera.
:mad
 
Blankpage said:
I just bought a new canon T1i to replace my XSi. I powered the camera up and took a few pics to test. One of the first things I did was change the screen colour. This was fine for a few pics but now the screen is blank as if the camera is not on. I can take pics but they won’t display nor can I get anything to display from pressing the menu button.
If I go to manual settings a try to put in live view still nothing. Any ideas?
I got a trip coming up this weekend and no working camera.
:mad
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Pull battery, pull memory card, pull lens, reinstall and reboot it. There should be a recessed reset button on the bottom of the camera as well.

I suspect you've just put it into some kind of live view or video mode, however.
 
cycle61 said:
Pull battery, pull memory card, pull lens, reinstall and reboot it. There should be a recessed reset button on the bottom of the camera as well.

I suspect you've just put it into some kind of live view or video mode, however.
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I just tried all that, didn't work. there is a tiny hole in the bottom next to the tripod mount. When I poke in there I feel too much resistance to be a reset button.
 
These cameras have a sensor just under the eye piece that blanks the screen as place your eye to look through the camera in low light. Perhaps this is acting up.
 
Blankpage said:
These cameras have a sensor just under the eye piece that blanks the screen as place your eye to look through the camera in low light. Perhaps this is acting up.
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Heard of that, I'd look at it as a possibility.

Try your question HERE. You'll probably have a dozen answers within a couple of hours. :thumbup
 
cycle61 said:
Zypher, talk to us about your lighting for those. What did you use, softbox, umbrella, etc, how did you set it up, triggers, did you get the look you wanted, power, f/stops, ISO, continuous or strobe, what do you want to try differently, etc?

I can host them and provide a link if you need.
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one big softbox on the side...yes i got the look that i wanted, even have it printed and framed...

f8, 60th, iso100
 
Sweet, thanks. Anything else, fill card, white walls? (trying to remember the lighting in the pics).

Also why, 1/60th? I tend to find myself using weird shutter speeds when I'm shooting flash only, and then wondering afterwards why I settled on that particular value. (this last wedding was almost entirely at 1/125th. No idea why, except that my usual 1/250th gave me a dark edge with the D40)
 
flash stops any action so you can go as low as 1/30th and not get any blur...
you can try that right now with your flash unit if your curious or even at 1/4th...when i do weddings i usually shoot between 1/30 - 1/125...anything faster makes the dramatic lights disappear...more drama of light, the more i like...
 
at most i shoot iso100 with flash...but at times when i shoot in motor drive at low light doing actions, i use higher iso and lower flash power for fast recycling...
 
Depending on your ambient light. I often end up at 1/10 - 1/30th at weddings, with the ISO cranked up and flash turned way down to balance with candles, etc. Just wondering why it's set that way in a controlled studio environment.

If it was me, I would probably just figure that 1/60th f/8 is fast enough to kill any reasonable ambient and not worry about it beyond that, although ideally one would want to be at maximum flash sync.
 
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