Recent content by scoobychief

hi just purchased the lens above and it came with a uv filter attached to the lens, would you guys keep this on the lens or do you use your lens without filter etc, bought it from someone who has had it on since new?.

just been outside and took my first nightish shot in manual mode but I left the focuscing in auto mode my question is I moved my focus onto a subject and then locked it, I use the back button ae/l I find this easier and then kind of pointed it at the moon but I noticed that when I let go of the...

hi can get a cheap battery grip pack from amazon delivered for under £20 and apparently they work with 3rd party batteries too, my question is there is a compartment to take 2 batteries am I right in thinking that when one dies it automatically switches to the second battery?.

hi guys before I pull out what left of my hair I need Some advice, was fishing today in peaceful quiet surroundins I had my tripod etc and decided to take a photo of the lake using a very slow shutter speed to just see the effect etc... needless to say nothing came out everything was almost...

Hi I might be answering my own question here but here goes, I decided to have a go shooting in manual mode I understand about aperture and shutter speed and iso etc and you should get your meter reading as close to zero etc and also understand that sometimes circumstances are that you might have...

Another newbie question when I transfer my pictures from camera to pc say in a folder called pictures, I then format my memory card take new pictures and if I then transfer them to the same folder then I get a conflict so I end up with pictures everywhere on my hard drive are there any...

I seemed to be putting up a lot of silly post it might appear to some but im lost and confused when I went out this afternoon and in full sunshine and blue sky and moon was in the sky so dicided to take a photo set it to A on camera and focused and through the lens it appeared a clear shot but...

This is a fishing related question Hi guys just got myself a new dslr camera and was wondering how to go about taking self takes, I mean I know how to do it etc. but what do you use to focus on etc.. I presume I would set up the tripod ready with camera attached not too far etc... now if I get a...

hi guys I have a picture on my memory card that I cant delete from the camera it shows a padlock in the view finder don't know how I did this but I want to be able to delete it. cheers

went outside earlier and the stars were out and the moon was a sliver automatically thought about grabbing camera setting it on a tripod and taking a picture I had it on all sorts of settings and I couldn't get past subject too dark I had iso at the highest etc. and still said subject too dark...

hi just received my self timer gadget today from ebay the shoot MC-36 Intervalometer fo£10.99 and its a great bit of kit. the selftmer allows you to take as many photos a you want a function which sadly is lacking in the d3100 and im sure it could have been added and saved money, but a cool...

hi guys I bought my camera Friday just gone and been ploughing through loads of youtube videos and loads of googleing and one thing that seems to puzzle me is that the camera came with a 18-55 lens which says DX and yet through youtube or google it shows the same camera with the same lens as me...

hi im totally new to the dslr camera and I have just purchased the Nikon d3100 today my question is, I do a lot of fishing and when alone and if I catch I would like to take photos, so ive got my tripod setup and everything is ready I press the self timer button round round holding this big carp...