Macworld likes the Nikon look

[Lammy]

Yeah or you can just AE-L on a card and use a manual lens.

I use fully manual lens, and I prefer to have the aperture as consistant as possible. Most times a card is useless... unless the card is always the same brightness that avoids the pal 50hz stroby lines.

Also I refuse to point the camera around like a spaz trying to get the right exposure. It's just more dignified to leave it on the tripod and tap a few buttons... lol

 

[jeracravo]

I'm still learning how to deal with D90's limitations... but I must say it's a little frustrating.

 

[damonb]

I'm still learning how to deal with D90's limitations... but I must say it's a little frustrating.

Try getting shallow depth of field or getting something different from a kiddie-birthday-party image from a standard video camera. But I am sympathetic. It can be frustrating.

NB - lenses with an aperture ring can give you the same result as manual lenses. We need to shift the 'optimum lens' category to lenses with aperture rings rather than just manual lenses. The whole range of early autofocus (AF) lenses, for instance, are great for control.