Comments on: Autumn Scenes from Shinjuku Gyoen

By: Jason Collin

Jason Collin — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 17:11:46 +0000

Thank you.

A good SLR might be cheaper than you think. For example the photo of the leaves falling that you like was taken with equipment that would now cost about $500 (Nikon D80 with Nikkor 50mm 1.8D lens). It depends on where you live. If you live in Tokyo, you have great used gear options. I almost always bought used lenses when I lived in Tokyo. No reason not to. Much much cheaper. Even a used SLR body is sometimes ok.

The learning curve takes as little as your excitement level. No doubt if you have no one to give you pointers, it can take a few weeks perhaps before you get one good image you like. But if you read the manual and read a few key photography websites for tips and study the settings of photos you like on flickr, you can learn pretty quickly.

Give the DSLR world a try!

By: Prometheus

Prometheus — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 07:37:57 +0000

The picture of the leaves falling on the kid is beautiful, really timeless. Seeing pictures like this make me want trade in my digi for a good slr camera. But the price and learning curve both seem very high…

By: Jason Collin

Jason Collin — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:35:15 +0000

I see by your lens choices you are into the wide side of things. I can recommend the Nikkor 50mm 1.8D lens as one I’ve used to get many of my favorite shots. It’s infinitely cheaper than the 1.4D, which costs nearly as much as the D80 body itself.

By: jay

jay — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:10:51 +0000

I tried to buy just the body only deal from B&H Photo, but they discontinued it. So, I bought it with the 18-55 vr. I think santa is going to bring me the nifty fifty for xmas and i plan on buying the Tokina 11-16 2.8 when i get my bonus in late december
You should start seeing a lot of shots coming from my direction in the next month or so!!