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<blockquote data-quote="paul_b" data-source="post: 175744" data-attributes="member: 15676">Your picture of the owl is amazing, so impressed <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />I'm not a pro&nbsp; photographer by any stretch of the imagination and really only want to&nbsp; take pictures of my family and mostly my child. She never sits still&nbsp; especially when the camera comes out as she thinks it's funny to spoil&nbsp; every shot as much as possible!My current camera is not too bad&nbsp; (Lumix G3 compact system camera) BUT now that I'm getting more and more&nbsp; into photography I'm realizing is not quite good enough for what i want.&nbsp; Indoors on iAuto mode it always tries to take images at around a 60th&nbsp; second. For me thats not quite good enough because either my child is&nbsp; slightly moving and a bit blurred or there's a bit of movement blur from&nbsp; me at that speed. Yes i can use shutter speed mode and increase the&nbsp; speed but the images tend to become too dark. Yes i can increase the iso&nbsp; but it doesn't make that much difference except introducing noise. I've&nbsp; tried using aperture mode to let in more light and still the shutter&nbsp; speed indoors wants to be around 60th second, except this time focusing&nbsp; becomes more and more hit and miss. The flash on the G3 always seems to&nbsp; white out her face and when i turn it down the images just get darker&nbsp; rather the camera intelligently compensating. It's all a bit too much to&nbsp; get my head around when all i want to do is take some nice indoor&nbsp; photos. I bought a flashgun too but often i'm a bit disappointed with&nbsp; the distribution of light coming down from on top of her.So,&nbsp; after doing research I've realised it's time to buy my 1st DSLR with a&nbsp; bigger and more light sensitive image sensor. This is why the bigger&nbsp; mega pixel count of the D3200 was confusing me as a few people have said&nbsp; the pixels have to be smaller to fit them all in and thus less&nbsp; sensitive to light again.I've settled on Nikon as my choice of&nbsp; DSLR that i want to buy as i like the ViewNX and CaptureNX dedicated&nbsp; software that i've tried with some sample Raws that i downloaded, and&nbsp; also the reputation of Nikon is second to none.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="paul_b, post: 175744, member: 15676"] Your picture of the owl is amazing, so impressed :) I'm not a pro photographer by any stretch of the imagination and really only want to take pictures of my family and mostly my child. She never sits still especially when the camera comes out as she thinks it's funny to spoil every shot as much as possible! My current camera is not too bad (Lumix G3 compact system camera) BUT now that I'm getting more and more into photography I'm realizing is not quite good enough for what i want. Indoors on iAuto mode it always tries to take images at around a 60th second. For me thats not quite good enough because either my child is slightly moving and a bit blurred or there's a bit of movement blur from me at that speed. Yes i can use shutter speed mode and increase the speed but the images tend to become too dark. Yes i can increase the iso but it doesn't make that much difference except introducing noise. I've tried using aperture mode to let in more light and still the shutter speed indoors wants to be around 60th second, except this time focusing becomes more and more hit and miss. The flash on the G3 always seems to white out her face and when i turn it down the images just get darker rather the camera intelligently compensating. It's all a bit too much to get my head around when all i want to do is take some nice indoor photos. I bought a flashgun too but often i'm a bit disappointed with the distribution of light coming down from on top of her. So, after doing research I've realised it's time to buy my 1st DSLR with a bigger and more light sensitive image sensor. This is why the bigger mega pixel count of the D3200 was confusing me as a few people have said the pixels have to be smaller to fit them all in and thus less sensitive to light again. I've settled on Nikon as my choice of DSLR that i want to buy as i like the ViewNX and CaptureNX dedicated software that i've tried with some sample Raws that i downloaded, and also the reputation of Nikon is second to none. [/QUOTE]

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