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Got another problem for you guys. I've been having a dark spot show up in all my pictures for the past couple of months now and it's been really irritating me as I has to ps it out, if it's even possible to do that. It's not on the lens since I've tried it with multiple lenses, so I have a worrying suspicion that it may be on the sensor itself. What would you guys recommend I do? Send it in for a checkup/cleaning, or take it in to a local Nikon dealer?
Here's a pic of the problem (It only show up when a shot is underexposed):
Well, either it's dust on the sensor (can be cured using bulb blower hopefully), or it might be this:
Originally Posted by Iron_Dreamer
It's called the D200
Hehe... that's actually almost true. Apart from the solid, bigger body, more fps, and more hard buttons, etc...
I'm not asking for anything else, just add metering. I don't need 1/8000, I don't need weather-proof body, just give me metering please... then it would be my perfect budget camera.
Why they (Nikon) never thought of the ones buying their D80 (and not D200) are the ones who are mostly budget-conscious, and budget conscious can be related to buying old MF lens. So if they include MF lens metering, it would be THE camera for the budget-minded shooters.
But I guess looking from Nikon's (marketing) point of view, mainly the reason for no metering is to discourage people buying second-hand lenses and "force" them to buy new lenses eh? Not to mention it would be too close to D200 too.
Got another problem for you guys. I've been having a dark spot show up in all my pictures for the past couple of months now and it's been really irritating me as I has to ps it out, if it's even possible to do that. It's not on the lens since I've tried it with multiple lenses, so I have a worrying suspicion that it may be on the sensor itself. What would you guys recommend I do? Send it in for a checkup/cleaning, or take it in to a local Nikon dealer?
It's dust on the filter above the sensor. you can send it in to Nikon if you want and they'll clean it, but dust is such a common problem it could get annoying doing that every time you notice dust, so you should clean it yourself, either with one of those small hand-power blowers for light dust, or if your comfortable with doing it, do a wet clean following the link above, it is actually very easy to do after awhile.
I took my own advice today, doing street photography, and yes it was fun, especially if you have lots of interesting things to shoot like in Mardi Gras.
I was gonna shoot with the MF Nikon, but then luckily when I went there, my common sense came to me and I suddenly realised that there's no way I can shoot parade using MF, it's very difficult and I'm not gonna risk it. So since I also got my macro AF with me, I switched and used the macro instead.
Overall, I am pretty disappointed with the result, me and my partner stood there for 5 hours in the crowd, and we stood in a wrong way, so we could only see 1 side of the parade and got stuck there (the parade was coming from 3 directions before joining onto Oxford st.)
And as if it's not enough, the guy next to me really couldn't stop moving, climbing the fence to look around, bumping me, etc. and f/2.8 is really not enough for ideal late afternoon/night photography (excuses excuses ). So I ended up with lots of blurry pictures and only a few quite decent ones.
Anyway, then to make things worse, the side we were on was actually scheduled to go last, so since we've been standing for so many hours and looked like the interesting ones were on different lanes and already gone, so we decided to go home instead.
Should've just stayed at home and watch it from tv. But at least one thing that makes me feel better is the macro is really such a versatile lens.
Lots of nice shots, but this last one is very good. Personally, I think this one shot alone justifies a day out shooting (well not that a day out shooting needs justification... )
JJcha: Thanks. Glad that you liked that one. Unfortunately those are a few ones that I could get something nice out of them. Most of them were crap (I took 137 pictures) . I put 4 which I think the better ones in my photo.net gallery.
Well, at least next year, If I decided to watch, I know where to stand. Gotta go early and get a nice spot.
About the new Nikon, I'm actually quite surprised that they introduced D40x, the D40 is still very new. Whatever the reason is, I really don't see much point of "upgrading" the D40 that soon, plus IMO it doesn't have that much improvement over the old D40 anyway. But I'm pretty sure there are lots of pissed off new D40 owners right about now.
It's dust on the filter above the sensor. you can send it in to Nikon if you want and they'll clean it, but dust is such a common problem it could get annoying doing that every time you notice dust, so you should clean it yourself, either with one of those small hand-power blowers for light dust, or if your comfortable with doing it, do a wet clean following the link above, it is actually very easy to do after awhile.
Sending that to Nikon would really be a waste of your money. Some good photography stores will do it for you and just make you pay for the cost of using the product for cleaning for example the sensor swab. (at least we do)
When you do try it for yourself first try out the handblowers. Most of the time they will be sufficient enough and when that's not working then try some heavy stuff. You can also get a vacuum-cleaner for cleaning up the sensor.
But before doing all that stuff do make sure your battery is full cause when he dies during the time your mirror is up you will damage the most expensive thing in your camera: the sensor.
. I put 4 which I think the better ones in my photo.net gallery. 
