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Anyone have one and know of some fun/useful settings?
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YAY! Another Nikonist!
First off, a few useful tips:
1. Learn the relation between Aperture, Shutterspeed and ISO.
2. Learn to use the "A" setting - this is the Aperture priority setting. You will come to love it, I promise!
Second:
Shoot alot and have fun with it, that's the best way to learn 
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Noooooooooooo Not another Nikon! 
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Sorry! Ive been borrowing my brothers Nikon D60 for awhile and after looking at both the Cannon and Nikon, I preferred the Nikon
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Went to my parents house this evening and messed around with some low-light shots. Still figuring out every setting, but this shot I liked.
http://mdenning.deviantart.com/art/Angel-Ornament-145457423
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You just needed to try the uberness that are L series lenses!
Im kidding, Gratz on your purchase hehe. Nikon does make a fine camera, but it gives me a reason to pick on Raiz
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Ive been having trouble with some nighttime photos lately :\
Tripod + long exposure time, but still turns out wayyy dark. Not sure if its because of the crappy lens or what. Any ideas?
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It's because its a nikon
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Are you shooting RAW or JPG? RAW will make it easier to fix an underexposed image in post.
To fix you can leave the shutter open longer, opening up the aperture wider (smaller f#, assuming you are not already wide open), up the ISO. or some combination of the three.
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I have it shoot RAW+JPEG
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It all depends really.
I dont think there's much you can do about saving your shots unfortunatly. It's alot harder to save underexposed shots then overexposed (this is because the bright range has alot more information)
It is also not about your lens, unfortunatly.
There are a few things you can do to get better night shots:
1. Use even longer exposures. if you need to go over 30 seconds (you ofte have to for night shots) you need a remote for your camera (there are plenty cheap non-brand ones that does the trick)
2. Increase aperture. (you can't open it too much on the kit lens, I think max aperture is something like f/3.5 at wide angle and f/5.6 at 50mm) You could try a fast prime for better results here. Just remember with a larger aperture, you loose depth of focus, which is not good for landscape shots.
3. Increase ISO. If a shot requires 1 min exposure at ISO 200, you'll halve it by increasing to ISO 400, then halve it again for ISO 800 and so on.
So to sum up, if you don't want to go get a remote, or loose depth of focus, you need to increase your ISO.
Happy nightshooting 
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Good camera! 
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How are you liking this? I am considering purchasing one next week
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