Spoiled/lucky. You just got a $900 camera free.
I had to work a 3 days a week for a month to get mine
Your parents are really nice.

What did you buy them for Christmas?

That's an insanely good paying job O__o"
Got my mom a special mousepad and my dad socks lol.

Nice hahaha.

I haven't got my parents their gift yet...they have to wait till January. (I took up an extra day a week for December working for extra $$)

I'm either getting my mom a Swarvoski crystal polar bear.
OR
I'm getting my family a 47" flastscreen :CD hdtv.


I'm aiming a bit more towards the flastscreen, that will leave me a bit of $ behind so I can also buy
guitar hero world tour and my family can be like rock starzz u kno ? lol

I don't think Nikon D80 has Live view but personally I think the Live view function in dslrs is over valued and unnecessary. It's kinda funny you asked about it because I was reading a thread about Live view in a photographyforum and this is what one of the members said about it:


I am sure eventually you will find looking through the viewfinder a lot better and practical way to take pictures.

This post was edited by Futurama on Dec 25 2008 01:16pm

yes. Liveview in dslr's is useless.
The reason being is that in most dslr, the live view function is ridiculously annoying.

You have to first set it to live view, then set it to be able to focus in live view.
Then while in live view you have to press a special button (mine if the AF-lock button) that will focus in live view.
This entire process takes like, 10-30 seconds depending on a subject.
and that, is a long time if the subject may be moving.


edit: and yes, viewfinder is much sexier.
Makes you look more pro, unlike the "soccer moms" taking pictures of their kids while holding the camera an arms length away looking at an lcd screen!

This post was edited by TheBlackRose66 on Dec 25 2008 01:23pm

Hm true. Saw that the D80 doesn't even have that option. Ah, It'll just take some getting used to "

I used to use Live view too when using my old point and shoot even though it actually had a viewfinder but due to it's smaller size I find live view more practical.
But when it comes to DSLR which are a lot larger in size it really is a pain in the butt to hold your camera at arms length all the time plus as Blackrose pointed out Live view on most DSLRs are quite impractical to use. I know on EOS 40D you can only autofocus with only the middle focus point selected so you can't take the advantage of the whole 9 cross type autofocus system it offers while in Live view mode and I find the view through the LCD a lot less clear and detailed as through the viewfinder.

btw I am glad that we finally agree on something mr blackrose

lol. Well, Mr.Young you certainly are using MR a lot today! XD

Yes! I do that sometimes, mr Nevereon
I just find calling people sirs or misters funny and I do that all the time when I'm working
like:

"May I take your order, sir/ma'am?" hahaha the other day a girl started to laugh when I called her ma'am. Oh well I know I can be a lil bit silly sometimes.

Hahah xD I can do those kinda things too but instead I start speaking in ye olde english I'll say like hither, thoust, thine, etc lol