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I call it the cart before the horse, the chicken before the egg. Now I can call it the body or the glass.
My brother-in-law is in a quandary on what to do so I figured I'd try to help. But I'm not helping much.
He has my older Nikon D40 and a kit 18-55. It served me well in cutting my teeth with digital and has served him well with his shooting. But yesterday he asked what to do since he can't get close to his subjects in church to shoot them and he want's to be un-obtrusive shooting them.
Simple huh? Just get a longer lens. It's complicated now in the fact that his D40 only has a max of ISO1600 and if I recall, it's not great above about 800 for noise. So any 'cheap' glass will be about f/3.5-5.6 which kills him on the low light church stuff. It's further complicated by the fact that the D40 is that 'entry' body which doesn't have the focus motor IN the body so it relies on the lens.
I told him in my first reply that at this point, he's not even able to take the shots he wants, so go for some inexpensive glass just for the reach. Then my second reply was a body that had much better ISO performance and focus motor in the body.
I've probably confused him more than anything.
Maybe I should just point him to Dear George
Any suggestions?
My brother-in-law is in a quandary on what to do so I figured I'd try to help. But I'm not helping much.
He has my older Nikon D40 and a kit 18-55. It served me well in cutting my teeth with digital and has served him well with his shooting. But yesterday he asked what to do since he can't get close to his subjects in church to shoot them and he want's to be un-obtrusive shooting them.
Simple huh? Just get a longer lens. It's complicated now in the fact that his D40 only has a max of ISO1600 and if I recall, it's not great above about 800 for noise. So any 'cheap' glass will be about f/3.5-5.6 which kills him on the low light church stuff. It's further complicated by the fact that the D40 is that 'entry' body which doesn't have the focus motor IN the body so it relies on the lens.
I told him in my first reply that at this point, he's not even able to take the shots he wants, so go for some inexpensive glass just for the reach. Then my second reply was a body that had much better ISO performance and focus motor in the body.
I've probably confused him more than anything.
Maybe I should just point him to Dear George
Any suggestions?
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