vikneshn

<p>For serious work I shoot in RAW. RAW takes serious workflow and allows a lot of post production flexibility.<br>

For relaxed stuff, JPG is good enough for me. I shoot in Neutral and this allows me simple post production.</p>

<p>The below setting always works very well for me....</p>

<ul>

<li>Shoot in RAW... takes away the issues of WB and allows you to recover more details if needed.</li>

<li>Center Weighted metering for shots that have the interest centered (I use Exposure lock when necessary). Evaluate metering for tricky light situation when I wanna capture all needed and lastly Spot metering for backlight subjects. For majority of shots, skin is my interest for exposure. </li>

<li>Auto ISO (my 40D auto limits this to 800)</li>

<li>Highlight Priority set ON</li>

<li>Manual setting - shutter speed 1/60 to 1/30 and aperture depending on the nature of the shot... DOF needed. Always do a few test shots when changing the manual settings and exposure metering and checks the histogram.</li>

<li>Flash (E-TTL) and diffuser (Demb) always on. I change the reflector angle on the diffuser depending on the shot.</li>

</ul>

<p>Please try and keep on shooting.<br>

All the best.</p>

The whole problem is noise.... not the camera but in us.

Too much info is also as bad as too little info.

Personally, photography is never about the camera.

Both N & C make good DSLR & lens and our job as photographers is to make good photos.

Please don't get caught in the battle of specs.... the whole thing is how we achieve balance between our wants, needs and desire.

D80 is definetely good for 8x10" prints.

Thanks for all your good comments.

I'll try post processing from RAW for B&W and also the in-camera B&W shooting.

I guess I wanna train myself to see and shhot in B&W.

Which would give better prints for digital SLR....

a. Shooting in B&W

b. Shooting in color and then post process to B&W

I use 40D body....

My fav lenses...

portraits... EF 50mm f/1.8, el-cheapo & EF 85mm f/1.8 USM

zoom... EF 70-200mm f/2.8 IS L USM

wide... EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM

prime... EF 50mm f/1.8, el-cheapo & EF 85mm f/1.8 USM

Tammy 17-50 is superb when you compare the investment made in the purchase.

Good images... no complaints.

It is marketing... as this would pull the attention of the P&S users who already have this feature... it is something

akin to the face recognition feature that some DSLR have nowadays.

Nothing about the capabilities of the DSLR.

Nikon is playing it well I guess.

Big big chances are that the rest will follow suit.

Canon has better lens portfolio.

Good body and features.

I just love the simplicity in the ergonomics and layout on the Canon.