there are times when you go and google an item and the amount of information is overwhelming. Which site to choose can be intimidating for some people. Me I usually just wade through til I find one that works for me. As for answering questions that seem like beginners who are lazy well not all people are teachers of all levels. Some people can teach newbies with no problems and others work better with more experienced students. So pick one and work only with that group and ignore the rest. just a thought

This is probably far more important than many realize. The way people perceive pictures is always changing. Most of us see very old portraits and wedding pictures as stuffy and unrevealing of the people's characters: too highly finished. It seems very likely that people who grew up with camera 'phones will perceive pictures differently from those of us who grew up with 'real' cameras.

Cheers,

R.

Ok folks, I'm kind of new to DSLRs, but I thought it was just the opposite of what was stated above. On a Full Frame DSLR a 10-20mm lens is 10-20mm, NOT 15-30mm.

On a Nikon D3100 cropped sensor, you use the 1.5 factor because the sensor is smaller and only sees the center part of the image produced by the lens. This center part makes it seem like you are "zoomed in," so the lens on a cropped sensor has a simulated LONGER focal length.

So, the 10-20mm on the Nikon D3100 would appear to function as if it was a 15-30mm. Is this right, or did I learn this backwards/wrong??

David