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Taken yesterday up the Brecon Beacons

why would a d300 be better than a d3100 am i missing something there?

the aperture markings are at the top, it does autofocus, i,m persevering with it at the moment

Ahhhh right thanks for that didnt even occur to me

thx for the reply, I realise i can still change the aperture i was just wondering what the point of it was on the lens

thx for the replies, plenty to take in there and tinker with

yes chris I will be trying manual next time, I do find it stupid where the back focus button is on the nikon just to the right of the viewfinder any other place would have been better for me lol

I read up different to that but i could be wrong. I thought back focus was basically using a 2nd button for your focusing instead of using the shutter release as the focus button. I was under the impression that once you locked it at something say for arguments sake at 20ft then it would stay...

yes I have no problem in auto focus but did notice for example i may be focused on something and say i move off the object even for a split 2nd it focuses on that then. I put it down to the learning curve, this is why i tried back focus. From what i can gather as long as the bird is in the...

I have the nikon d3100 ( feel i have outgrown it now tbh) but stuck with it for the meantime. The new lens is a bit new on me in some ways also. For example when I put the lens on the camera it says "set aperture to maximum" so i rotate the aperture ring on the lens before i can use it, I mean...

Hi all, I class myself as a beginner having had a dslr for roughly 18 months. Anyway I have purchased a second hand sigma 300 2.8 lens I also have a sigma 150-500 lens . My main interests are birds, wildlife etc. Few things I struggle with using my new lens so maybe you could help. I tried...

still the best they crack me up

the user name me and my youngest used on xbox live lol, an also i used it on a detecting forum, its a laurel and hardy film lol

Hi Sarah, sorry I should have explained a little better ( football was on though lol) I was down forest farm taking some shots of kingfishers, think the one bloke was called taff 63?