Any Revelations

[dooda]

What is the greatest thing you learned after getting the D70 that you wished you'd have known earlier? (maybe list a couple of things, I'm looking for ways to squeeze more out of my D70.)

[Glen]

To light the focus indicators! I read Thom Hogan's book which suggested turning the lighting off. After a few out of focus photos realised my big nose was pressing on the multi switch and changing focus points. With the small viewfinder and screen I couldn't tell till too late.

[gstark]

After a few out of focus photos realised my big nose was pressing on the multi switch and changing focus points.

You must be left-eyed.

I think that, for flash photography, working out how to use the FEC is a really big deal.

[Glen]

Well picked Gary, didn't realise I was till you wrote that and I put the camera to my nose

[Onyx]

Programmable AE-L/AF-L button - myriad array of choices of what you want this button to do.

Also, this is more a feature of the SB800 than D70 - but, the hotshoe lever allows super fast flash attachment and removal. Another example of Nikon ingenuity. You'll take it for granted unless you've used other flashes, including Canon's flagship 550EX, where you have to manually rotate a dial to secure the flash on the camera hotshoe...

[MHD]

After reading the tip here I didnt even know something like trap focusing existed!

[Raydar]

I’ve made the effort to read & understand the histogram.
& now couldn’t do with out it

Cheers
Ray

[dooda]

Any ideas of a place to go to learn how to read that thing?

[MHD]

The histogram is a plot of pixel value (horizontal scale from black to white) versus number of pixels that have that value (vertical scale) a well exposed picture (which is not always the best picture, will have a spread of values across the histogram showing the you made good use of the dynamic range of the sensor

[Matt. K]

White balance set to sunny -1 is more reliable than auto white balance.

[Raydar]

Ha Dooda

Here's one to give you a kick start.

http://luminous-landscape.com/tutorials ... rams.shtml

Cheers
Ray

[Glen]

Hi Matt, Your tip about white balance set to -1 instead of auto, is that just what you use outside or most places? Just wondering, I leave mine on auto which is ok outside but hopeless in shade or inside. I change for most scenes but sometimes forget which is why I default to auto. You can see why I have to shoot nef

[Matt. K]

Hi Glen!
I use sunny -1 or -2 outdoors. It gives me a more reliable, consistent, slightly warm image that I think works better than auto WB. I switch to cloudy -1 for heavy clouds. I switch to flash for indoor flash only.
Cheers

[Glen]

Thanks Matt, will give it a whirl (today is the perfect day for it), I like the way your photos look