[samuellei]

hi everyone,
i just bought my d5d on last sat after reading all comments here. i'm very satisfied with it. thanks everyone.
i'm very very new to photography. my main purpose is to take picture of my baby son.
- can big brother here tell me how to keep and maintain the camera?
- will a less-than-$2000 aftermarket lens better than the kit lens?
thank you all big brother.
good shooting.

[nlsho]

For baby, use no flash, get a 50mm.
Use it every day, and the set up will be at good condition.

[alf_wong]

Dear Sam,

The following is my list of maintenance tools.

1. "SORAK fantasic cloth", ~$40, light blue colour. it is a excellent cleaning cloth for lens/glass cleaning with lens cleaning water. It is much better than the lens pen, as many user aware, lens pen can get quite greasy in a few application.

2. Kodak professional lens cleaner, ~$40 (I can't remember), lens cleaner "water". No bad.

3. "Multi high-tech wiper", ~$80, blue colour. It is a little differ than the cleaning cloth above, it is more designed for dust removal, great for camera/lens body cleaning.

4. "AF" air pump, ~$80, light blue colour, a must to have to blow any dust!

5. Compressed bottle gas, ~95, any japanese brand. Great for gap or socket cleaning, very effective, but DONT use it on CCD cleaning, may cause damage.

Baby shooting..... large apeture is the only way to go. Prime lens is definitely great in terms of bigger apeture but zoom lens may be little more handy on baby shooting.

Depends on the range that you are looking for, 28-75 F2.8 seems to be the closest one. It is more expensive than ~2000 but it is around the best.

How about 2nd hand?

[Form one 仔]

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[samuellei]

thank you everyone.