Just bought a D80!!!! Any Suggestions?

[Expresbro]

January 7, 2008 at 10:53 am

Congrats on the purchase Colin..and welcome to the D80 club. There are several good books that go into detail on the camera and are more logically laid out and easily understood than the supplied manual. I found the Magic Lantern Guide http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/WEBSITE/WWW/WEBPAGES/showbook.php?id=1600591124 pretty useful and there are plenty of websites out there with helpful folks willing to offer advice (you’re actually on one of the best :wink: ). There is a really good D80 Flickr group which has a lot of helpful tutorials relating specifically to the D80 as well.

The two things I’d suggest you put top of your wish list are and SB600/800 Speedlight and a Nikkor 50mm f1.8 Prime lens ( really cheap and wonderful).

Have fun…and don’t be slow to ask any questions of us really helful Nikon users…. :D

Robbie
8)

[fishjam45]

January 7, 2008 at 1:26 pm

ossie13 wrote:

Have the D80 for a few months now since upgrading from the D50, great camera………..enjoy!!! As already said get out there and shoot………..!!!

What lens have you got?

Cheers Steve

I gotta 18-55 AF-S Nikkor and a 55-200 AF-S Nikkor . . .

[fishjam45]

January 7, 2008 at 1:27 pm

Expresbro wrote:

Have fun…and don’t be slow to ask any questions of us really helful Nikon users…. :D

Robbie
8)

Thanks Robbie !!!!

[fishjam45]

January 7, 2008 at 1:28 pm

Sgt_Major wrote:

I have the D80 for a yr now.

I find 95% of the time you need to drop your exposue to -0.3 or -0.7 to get it right. Its rare I shoot on 0.0 exposure.

Its a very sturdy camera, and Ive had no problems at all with it, although if you use a very long shutter (20sec+) I find it has a bit of trouble saving the image and can take quite a while to save it, but I expect thats normal.

Good luck with it, you wont be disappointed!

Thanks man, I’ll bear that in mind when I’m using it . . .

[fishjam45]

January 7, 2008 at 1:29 pm

steelydan wrote:

Try typing it into Youtube and you would be surprised what you will find

Here’s one describing the camera

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNp39XSfiNM

John

Thanks John

[fishjam45]

January 7, 2008 at 1:30 pm

RGH_Photography wrote:

Take it and trade it in for a canon lol ;)

Hrmmm . . . :lol:

[Martin]

January 7, 2008 at 1:54 pm

Sgt_Major wrote:

although if you use a very long shutter (20sec+) I find it has a bit of trouble saving the image and can take quite a while to save it, but I expect thats normal.

As default Nikon have long exposure noise reduction turned on for long exposures, if you turn if off it saves instantly. (something to do with the camera taking a second image and using it to reduce the noise by comparing the two pics, its called “Dark Frame Subtraction” if you want to look it up:-))

M

[Sgt_Major]

January 7, 2008 at 3:56 pm

ahhhhh – thanks martin, I didn’t know that!

[Mikey 1974]

January 8, 2008 at 12:20 am

I was never that posh to be able to have a d80. Own a d70s instead and found as sgt major said, the ex needs to be dropped -3 /-7