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Hi, my name is Danny and I am new here and new to Photography. I bought my first DSLR a couple of weeks ago, and have been watching many YouTube videos for tips on how to use it, and have been having a play with it. Hoping to pick up lots of advice and tips here. Thanks.
 
Hi Danny, And welcome aboard TP, looking forward to hearing from you and maybe seeing some of your images on the various forums."Enjoy".
 
Hi Danny welcome to TP, will find the forums very useful, there are lot of experienced users here so don't be afraid to ask any questions :D
 
Thanks guys, is there any where on the forum I could post a couple of images for peoples opinions and advice? Thanks
 
Evening Danny, welcome aboard, plenty of advise and help within, just ask, loads of nice people here (maybe a few not so :p.....lol)

What did you buy ?
 
I bought a Nikon D5500, second hand from a camera shop in my local area with the 18-55mm kit lens. I am happy with it so far.
 
I bought a Nikon D5500, second hand from a camera shop in my local area with the 18-55mm kit lens. I am happy with it so far.
More than capable body, had/have the D5200 and yours is technically better.
 
Hi, my name is Danny and I am new here and new to Photography. I bought my first DSLR a couple of weeks ago, and have been watching many YouTube videos for tips on how to use it, and have been having a play with it. Hoping to pick up lots of advice and tips here. Thanks.
Welcome Danny. Plenty of people who know their "onions" on here.
 
More than capable body, had/have the D5200 and yours is technically better.

I was originally going to buy a new D5300, but then found the D5500 and decided to go with that. I have a few lenses in mind I would like, but wanting to practice more with what I have first.
 
I was originally going to buy a new D5300, but then found the D5500 and decided to go with that. I have a few lenses in mind I would like, but wanting to practice more with what I have first.
Great idea about practice and the tendency ( like me) is to go out and buy new glass, in hindsite I wish I’d waited a little to understand my photography interest as I’ve got a few that just don’t see the light of day.

Some are cheap little ones that are handy to have others are more specialised and suit a type of photography.
 
Great idea about practice and the tendency ( like me) is to go out and buy new glass, in hindsite I wish I’d waited a little to understand my photography interest as I’ve got a few that just don’t see the light of day.

Some are cheap little ones that are handy to have others are more specialised and suit a type of photography.

I think I seem to be heading in the direction of a mixture of Landscape, wildlife and night time photography that I enjoy. Mainly landscape and night time.

It’s the cheaper ones I have been looking at, the 50mm f1.8, 35mm f1.8 and the 70-300mm zoom lens.
 
I think I seem to be heading in the direction of a mixture of Landscape, wildlife and night time photography that I enjoy. Mainly landscape and night time.

It’s the cheaper ones I have been looking at, the 50mm f1.8, 35mm f1.8 and the 70-300mm zoom lens.

35/50 are great little things for the money, one thing to think about when looking and trying to decide based on use is your crop factor, as you have a crop body, your focal length will be x1.5, so in reality, the 50mm will be more like 75mm (50mm x 1.5) 35mm will be 52mm ish. just a little thought as i bought the 50mm for indoor stuff and found it quite long, well longer than I expected, so i ended up trading for a 35mm but the 50 may well work for you, its all personal.

I had an 18-200 and found it more than capable and for around £200 its a nice little lens (well not that little) might be a lens you can do landscape and the odd birdy ? but 200mm is very short for wildlife.

the good thing is you have an 18-55, so play and enjoy then look back and see what sort of focal length you use a lot.
 
35/50 are great little things for the money, one thing to think about when looking and trying to decide based on use is your crop factor, as you have a crop body, your focal length will be x1.5, so in reality, the 50mm will be more like 75mm (50mm x 1.5) 35mm will be 52mm ish. just a little thought as i bought the 50mm for indoor stuff and found it quite long, well longer than I expected, so i ended up trading for a 35mm but the 50 may well work for you, its all personal.

I had an 18-200 and found it more than capable and for around £200 its a nice little lens (well not that little) might be a lens you can do landscape and the odd birdy ? but 200mm is very short for wildlife.

the good thing is you have an 18-55, so play and enjoy then look back and see what sort of focal length you use a lot.

I think I would use for both indoor stuff and landscape. With you mentioning that, the 50mm was too long. I think that the 35mm would be better for me for indoor use, with them going to a bigger aperture they would be better suited with low light as well.

I will have a look at the 18-200mm lens. Thanks.
 
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Hello Danny, :welcome: to the forum
 
Hi Danny- Completely new here too. I've also been looking at plenty of youtube videos, I need to make sure I don't get too bogged down with those and actually take photos instead.
 
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