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The sun was out last weekend and absolutely lit up the tops of this purple dwarf in our backyard. Taken on a D3100 crippled with my 55-200VR :o

I'm a DSLR newbie on a D3300 for the last few months. In order to better understand and learn SLR photography, I've acquired a few old manual Nikkor primes that I'm learning to use in M mode and I'm loving the IQ from these older lenses over my kit zooms. However, it's getting to be a pain to...

Yes, they were auto uploaded from my Mac to Flickr, from where I downloaded them in "Large" size to post here. Not sure why that stripped out the EXIF?! Good point on the vignetting, hadn't even noticed! I have noticed exposure issues though, and feel that something is off with the D3300...

Sample images below. These are all OOC Jpegs. Except the first photo taken with a 50 f/1.8 Series E prime, all the others were taken with the 55-200 VR. One thing I noticed right off the bat while going through the photos were that many of them were taken with shutter speeds way faster than the...

Wanted to see if other 55-200 VR users have had a different experience than mine, but I've been struggling to get consistently nice images with this lens on my D3300. (My copy had a faulty VR that I've since fixed, but the IQ still fails to impress). My main issues are graininess and smearing...

Thanks @Daz, that's a relief to hear. Definitely don't want any unintended consequences of changing that focusing screen. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Beat me to it Moab Man [emoji23]Trust that addresses your concerns, @480sparky! So you gonna share your gear choices or stay hung up on a minor technicality? [emoji6] Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

If you could take only one Nikon DSLR body with you, which would it be, and most importantly, why? Not required, but feel free to mention no more than 3 lenses you would take with it. My hope with this post is to identify older Nikon DSLRs that hit the sweet spot for usability and picture...

Thanks Ajoy, nice work. My takeaway from this PP assignment is that PP is an inherently subjective process influenced by the aesthetic preferences of the practitioner, among other things. Thus good PP can yield images that are not identical but otherwise perfectly acceptable. My other takeaway...

Made some amazing progress this evening with a little help from an article on coupling two lenses to get extreme closeups, viz. Coupled lenses in macro photography. So the big tip in this article is to mount a telephoto lens on the body, and a wide-angle lens in reverse on the telephoto using a...

This was my attempt using the Photos App. I'm liking both your versions more. Looks like I need to get a better RAW editor. :)

I have the following older primes for my D3300. 28 f/3.5 Nikkor-H 50 f/1.8 Nikon Series E 105 f/2.5 Nikkor-P (Sonnar-type) 200 f/4 Nikkor-Q While researching these and other lenses, I came across references to using teleconverters, reverse mounting, stacking lenses, etc). Made me wonder...

As regards @cwgrizz's shot of the bird in an earlier post, not sure what type of metering was being used, but seems like that would be a good case to use spot or center-weighted metering (as opposed to using matrix metering and then applying EC). Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Thanks for your replies, @cwgrizz and @nickt. Follow up question: does auto ISO work in M mode with vintage manual lenses that cannot meter? I didn't think so, but would be thrilled to hear otherwise. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Thanks for the awesome insights! As for the questions: - Yes, I've been using the green dot confirmation along with the viewfinder image, and they usually coincide. For very close-in shots, they can be a little off, and I've been going by what I see in the viewfinder. - As far as the M mode, I...

I recently purchased a vintage 105 f/2.5 Nikkor-P (Sonnar-type) for better quality portraits on my D3300. Given that it is a non CPU lens, I can only use it in the manual program (M) mode. While it takes an occasional great shot, I have noticed some peculiar performance issues with it that I...

I'm looking at swapping out the focusing screen on my D3300 for a split focusing screen to improve manual focusing. The main reason is I've been acquiring some older manual primes, and my results with manual focusing have been a bit hit or miss, despite the use of the green focus confirmation...

Just wondering what focal length and glass Nikonites prefer for shooting portraits on DX? More broadly, what lens attributes would you consider must-haves for family portraiture? For instance, would AF and VR be critical requirements, or would manual work? Or, can one assume good lighting (and...

I have the older 55-200 VR and noticed the VR was not staying engaged, so I got the entire module replaced. Now although the VR is engaged, the viewfinder image does not appear to stabilize and instead seems to less stable than with VR off. Accordingly, my handheld photos get blurrier when I...

It's my kiddo's birthday tomorrow, and I intend to use the D3300 for the pics. The venue is an indoor children's gym which is reasonably well lit. I expect to set up the camera in Aperture Priority and manual ISO and then have a friend to take photos in a point & shoot fashion. My instinct was...