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| Location: | South Lakeland, UK |
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Not that many new members bother to announce themselves, well done!
I have a D3100, which I use for recording progress on my auto builds and general knocking about, I just set it on auto and 99 times out of the 100 it does the business. Can't be bothered with detailed camera settings when I am greased to the elbows.
The 18-105 is a very good lens in my opinion. It's pretty much nailed to the D3100 but occasionally I put it on my Infra Red camera where it makes really nice, sharp images.
The viewfinder thing is normal, gives you a nice surprise when you thought you had cut somebodies head off!!! You need to spend big bucks before you get 100% viewfinders, don't know why, probably a cost thing. You can of course use live view, very handy, especially for close-ups. You can zoom in on the critical detail, focus on that and then take the pic.
Not sure if the D3300 can use manual focus lenses but AF is pretty useless for closeups, I use an ancient Nikkor Micro 55mm f2.8 which is a superb close-up lens. It's common enough on eBay.
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Robert.