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<blockquote data-quote="Horoscope Fish" data-source="post: 122796" data-attributes="member: 13090"><p>Most welcome. My ex-wife is Belgian (grew up in Ronse but is now living in Ghent)... I did fall in love with Belgium while I was there. Ate myself nearly to bursting on steamed mussels, escargot and Palm more than once. Do love me some Hoegaarden, though! Anyway...</p><p></p><p></p><p>Well if you mean "Sports" MODE on your camera (one of the icons on the topmost selector wheel) all that really does is try to select a fast shutter speed for your shots. You could experiment with it but I prefer to set things up myself. I am, by the way, making certain assumptions about your understanding of things like: Shutter Speed, Aperture, Depth of Field and ISO. If you're NOT familiar with what these terms mean, and how the affect your picture taking, I would suggest you spend some time with a good book on basic photography or, at the very least, Ken Rockwell's <a href="http://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/d5000/users-guide/index.htm" target="_blank">online guide to the D5000</a>. A good book I can suggest would be the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Nikon-D5000-Digital-Field-Guide/dp/0470521260" target="_blank">Nikon D5000 Digital Field Guide</a> (link goes to Amazon, stateside...). </p><p></p><p></p><p>Well suggesting a particular lens is never easy because everyone wants ONE lens that does everything and that, unfortunately, just isn't going to happen. What lens is on the camera now? </p><p></p><p>For myself, I pretty much live and die by two lenses: My 18-105mm rarely leaves my D5100 but when it does, most likely, it's for a 35mm prime. But that's me and based on my shooting needs. For shooting models, I would want a 50mm prime (meaning the focal length is fixed) and for shooting sports I would want my 18-105 (at a minimum) or the 18-300mm (oh hell yes!). The latter would totally awesome, but I don't have a need at this point for that much zoom power. You will probably want it, though.</p><p> </p><p>Hope that helps! I'm sure others will post with equally good suggestions.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Horoscope Fish, post: 122796, member: 13090"] Most welcome. My ex-wife is Belgian (grew up in Ronse but is now living in Ghent)... I did fall in love with Belgium while I was there. Ate myself nearly to bursting on steamed mussels, escargot and Palm more than once. Do love me some Hoegaarden, though! Anyway... Well if you mean "Sports" MODE on your camera (one of the icons on the topmost selector wheel) all that really does is try to select a fast shutter speed for your shots. You could experiment with it but I prefer to set things up myself. I am, by the way, making certain assumptions about your understanding of things like: Shutter Speed, Aperture, Depth of Field and ISO. If you're NOT familiar with what these terms mean, and how the affect your picture taking, I would suggest you spend some time with a good book on basic photography or, at the very least, Ken Rockwell's [URL="http://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/d5000/users-guide/index.htm"]online guide to the D5000[/URL]. A good book I can suggest would be the [URL="http://www.amazon.com/Nikon-D5000-Digital-Field-Guide/dp/0470521260"]Nikon D5000 Digital Field Guide[/URL] (link goes to Amazon, stateside...). Well suggesting a particular lens is never easy because everyone wants ONE lens that does everything and that, unfortunately, just isn't going to happen. What lens is on the camera now? For myself, I pretty much live and die by two lenses: My 18-105mm rarely leaves my D5100 but when it does, most likely, it's for a 35mm prime. But that's me and based on my shooting needs. For shooting models, I would want a 50mm prime (meaning the focal length is fixed) and for shooting sports I would want my 18-105 (at a minimum) or the 18-300mm (oh hell yes!). The latter would totally awesome, but I don't have a need at this point for that much zoom power. You will probably want it, though. Hope that helps! I'm sure others will post with equally good suggestions. [/QUOTE]
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