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Congratulations and welcome to slippery slope and financial destitution 
You'll love it though.
What sort of slower shutter speed stuff are you interested in? Night photography etc? You'll need a tripod either way but this needn't cost you much. You may also want a remote trigger to avoid camera vibration but you can use the self timer to start with.
Here is a great place to pick tips up. Check out the night photograph thread on here. Also worth joining Flickr and browsing the groups on there and take a look at the talk photography forum.
There are some great books for beginners as well. My favourite so far is called Understanding Exposure. A dedicated book about your camera might be useful as well.
Above all, just play around, take lots of pics and enjoy it.
You'll love it though.What sort of slower shutter speed stuff are you interested in? Night photography etc? You'll need a tripod either way but this needn't cost you much. You may also want a remote trigger to avoid camera vibration but you can use the self timer to start with.
Here is a great place to pick tips up. Check out the night photograph thread on here. Also worth joining Flickr and browsing the groups on there and take a look at the talk photography forum.
There are some great books for beginners as well. My favourite so far is called Understanding Exposure. A dedicated book about your camera might be useful as well.
Above all, just play around, take lots of pics and enjoy it.
Gad-Westy said:
What sort of slower shutter speed stuff are you interested in? Night photography etc? You'll need a tripod either way but this needn't cost you much. You may also want a remote trigger to avoid camera vibration but you can use the self timer to start with.
I really want to do water stuff, like this:
Ive bought a tripod to collect with the camera, but not a remote. Like you said, i'll just use the self timer.
nice one - not a conikon fanboy!!
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