I have one too - it's awesome. Like you, I find it hard to handle the manual focussing - the little dot in the viewfinder is almost impossible to see in certain light - but the lens is truly wonderful and there's something 'honest' about taking a good photograph by manually focussing the lens. You start to think about position and composition more because often you have to physically rethink your shot, and move around the subject a little more. I found myself climbing over things, kneeling down or stretching around much more than I ever have done using the kit lens - with which it's all to easy to lazily point the damn thing and shoot.
This was the first 'separate' lens we have bought for the camera and it's been a bit of a revelation. Now I understand why people were telling me to spend the money on lenses more than the basic camera itself. I took it with me to London at the weekend, we left the kit lens behind (we have a lowly D40x, about 6 months old). At first it drove Nic mad but as time wore on I think she began to appreciate the depth-of-field effect - she took some nice photos at the zoo of ants, spiders and the like, with great blurry backgrounds and sharply focussed subjects.
We'll have to get them flickered and then I'll give you a link. I'm behind a client's rather feeble broadband at the moment but will have a look at your pictures when I get in tonight. :-)
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Date: 2008-07-23 12:50 pm (UTC)I have one too - it's awesome. Like you, I find it hard to handle the manual focussing - the little dot in the viewfinder is almost impossible to see in certain light - but the lens is truly wonderful and there's something 'honest' about taking a good photograph by manually focussing the lens. You start to think about position and composition more because often you have to physically rethink your shot, and move around the subject a little more. I found myself climbing over things, kneeling down or stretching around much more than I ever have done using the kit lens - with which it's all to easy to lazily point the damn thing and shoot.
This was the first 'separate' lens we have bought for the camera and it's been a bit of a revelation. Now I understand why people were telling me to spend the money on lenses more than the basic camera itself. I took it with me to London at the weekend, we left the kit lens behind (we have a lowly D40x, about 6 months old). At first it drove Nic mad but as time wore on I think she began to appreciate the depth-of-field effect - she took some nice photos at the zoo of ants, spiders and the like, with great blurry backgrounds and sharply focussed subjects.
We'll have to get them flickered and then I'll give you a link. I'm behind a client's rather feeble broadband at the moment but will have a look at your pictures when I get in tonight. :-)