Dakota's Yota Build (Long Travel, Chevy 63s, and BS)

X2. If you want automatic then stick to the iPhone

You can use aperture and shutter priorities modes to get yourself used to seeing how all the variables play together. ISO/aperture/shutter speed.

 

x2 on shooting in RAW format.

I edit nearly all my pictures anyways, and it only takes a couple more seconds each to convert the RAW file to a JPEG after editing.

 

Does the editing software convert? Or just when you save it after editing choose jpeg?

 

Forgot about lightroom.

I shoot in aperture priority most of the time. I set the iso and the white balance, then the mess with the aperture

 

You save it as a jpeg when done. Then it flattens it without loosing any quality

 

Agree

Agree

Nope. But I would like to keep it to either Nikon or Cannon

Let's see it....

That's the plan. I want to learn this stuff.

A zoom that gets me over 100? I don't think I need a super wide lens...

So much to learn. For instance what does having a 30 second shutter do?

Well I got that part down now lol

Flattens it?

 

30 second shutter is for extreme low light (taking pictures of stars from a tripod) or doing light painting:


taken from google

 

CanonPriceWatch.


Google.

 

You do want a wider lens. Maybe not super wide but we take more close pictures rather than far away ones. On a trail you want a wide lens.
I have 2, a wider one for up close and a telephoto for far away.

 

100 meaning mm. My first lens was an 18-135. Worked great on the 60d.

You'll use the zoom more than you think even on the trail.

 

Full frame or bust

 

Woah, cool!

Noted.

Won't that mess up the normal 4:3 landscape shape or whatever? How do you know all this I feel like I've never seen you with a DSLR ever haha. Break that thing out more often.

Oooooh. Damn and standard ones only go to 55 mm?

 

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http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/pho/5836587269.html
I don't think I like the Canon as much... This one at least has a higher MP than 12 but still seems, idk lacking compared to a D3200

 

Full frame dslr. It's more $ but well worth it if photography is what you're into.

Having owned both canon and Nikon, I decided on canon. The menu system was easier to navigate and make changes. The canon lens were cheaper, and I couldn't get used to the way Nikon lenses zoomed. Seemed backwards.

 

I hadn't brought it out often because it was super unreliable, but I have since fixed it and am starting to use it more.
Let me rephrase that, you don't want a wide angle lens that makes it look like your in a fish bowl (unless you want that kind of picture) but rather a lens for close up pictures. I don't know specific numbers like Marc and Mason but I guess one for normal ranges.

 

I need one of those 18-55 is just not enough.

Th 55-200 is too much unless doing long landscape shots

 

The kit lens (the one most commonly sold with the camera is an 18-55) but there are literally enough different lenses to make your head explode

 

Well currently I'm a complete novice and don't know what I want. What Cannon would you recommend to me? Trying to find used and stay under $400.

Gotcha? I think...

Yep that's what it's doing currently