Comments on: Do You Look Like an Amateur When You Hold Your SLR?

By: jimk022

jimk022 — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 17:36:11 +0000

*pop up flash–I use mine as the master (set at 1/32 power) to set off my slaves. My Nikon D40 allows me to do this.

Last night (Christmas Eve) I was taking a photo of a nativity scene. I wanted to use my off camera flash–the batteries were dead. That will happen when you forget to turn off the flash. I used my pop up and place the diffusion box from my off camera flash over the pop up–blinded myself every time I took the photo but the results were very pleasing (IMHO).

Sometimes a man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do!

Have a blessed Christmas!

By: Henry HotShoe

Henry HotShoe — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:45:37 +0000

Great information…getting the basic techniques down early on is important. It’s like leaning to hold a golf club correctly when your first learning to swing. It might not be the most comfortable grip when you first try it, but it becomes more natural for you as practice. Before you know it, you don’t even think about it.

By: Cattsy

Cattsy — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 03:05:21 +0000

I have to say that I disagree with this article. I hold my camera in “the proper way” and to be honest, I think I look like an idiot. However, I think using a camera is all about where you find comfort. Even if “professionals” think you look stupid if you don’t, if you find it comfortable to hold it a certain way, than I think you should be free to; it’s your camera and you should use it the way you see fit.

By: Ann

Ann — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:29:39 +0000

Jen..there is a button where you can turn off the flash..that or learn to use the manual setting or Tv, Av or P. We were all new once.:)

By: Jen

Jen — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:31:17 +0000

Uh… well about the auto-pop-up flash.. how do you get rid of it popping up at a moment you don’t expect? D: *is a pretty noob with her camera*

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By: Darren

Darren — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:05:57 +0000

@howard – why not hold the lens with auto focus on? I use a K20D and always hold the lens – no support otherwise

@Craig – what is wrong with using the pop up flash? It is there to be used. I have been shooting for about 30 years and often use the pop up flash

By: Howard

Howard — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:36:45 +0000

The traditional SLR grip works great when you choose to look through the viewfinder but with many DSLRs offering live view and people deciding to use that feature then you obviously cannot go for the ‘recommended’ stance. I don’t recognise the camera model used by the photographer in the first image but it looks to me as if they’re using live view rather than the viewfinder, hence you cannot really criticise them for not using the traditional grip.

By: Billy

Billy — Sat, 30 May 2009 14:06:46 +0000

If your Pentax K200D has Auto Focus, and you use it at times, then holding the lens is NOT recommend. Holding the lens on a DSLR is not ALWAYS appropriate.

By: admin

admin — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 10:12:54 +0000

@Craig – lol – I can’t believe I forgot to mention that!