d60 and d40 lenses are the same...the 2 cameras a nearly identical.

 

With Wide Angle:



Without Wide Angle (Regular Lens):

 

Look bottom line is that those are cheap lenses quality and price. I would say get the "wide angle" lens due to the cheap price and if it works out for you and you like it, then you win. Once you get further down the road and learn more, spend the money on something better. I have been into photography for coming up on 20 years and in the grand scheme of things I don't know ****. Take it as it goes.

 

With those pictures from what i can see the detail in the closest and furthest away parts in the image have lost some detail. The image with the piece on is not nearly as sharp as the other two images.

You can also see the clear vignetting going on with the first image. That is going to greatly effect your images because you are going to have to crop every singe picture and hope the crop doesn't cut off something important.

 

I have one of those lens on my XSI, its really nice but I wish I would have saved for the 16-35 2.8. Worth the extra money as the 17-40 can only go to 4.0 which sucks unless it's really bright out

 

I'm assuming by that you mean the black rounded edges at the corners? If so, my camera does that and I'm using the lens my D40 came with and a UV/Circular Polarizer filters.

 

The vignetting you are getting with your current lens is not the vault of the lens. That happens because of the positioning of your circular polarizing filter.

And there is a huge difference between the two as far as the vignetting goes. The circular polarizing filter is quite an easy fix in Photoshop and since the vignetting is not drastic it is very easy to crop the vignetting out of the photo.

With the lens attachment you want to get it has a drastic vignetting appearance on the photo which limit what you can take out of the photo. ie. You cut a foot of, take part of someones head off etc.

Yeahh I've been debating and I may go with the 10-22 since i have a crop body anyway. I can wait to get the 16-35 f/2.8 when I get my hands on a full frame camera.

 

So the placement of the circular polarizer is what's causing my vignetting? So if I put that before the UV filter for instance it will make it go away?

Also your saying that the wide angle will cause more vignetting than the polarizer but my pictures that have vignetting are about the same as on the one my friend took with his wide angle. Gimme a minute I'll upload one of my pictures that have vignetting (also feel free to give some constructive criticism on the picture so I can get better

My pictures with UV filter and circular polarizer:

 

Did u buy cheap ebay filters or did you spend some money on the filters? I have those Hoya Pro series 77m filters for my 17-40 and I see no vignetting at all. You could zoom in a little to get rid of it no?

 

Those are zoomed in. And the 2 filters I got when I bought the camera at Circuit City. They were like $15 a piece.

 

Your polarizer can be rotated and thats what is causing it. And the vignetting is different with the wide angle...In the wide angle it is a very harsh vignetting. With your polarizer its softer thus easier to touch up.

You can also see in your second pic there it has an almost a pink tone to the clouds and the picture as a whole...that is also because of your polarizer and WB being off because of it.

 

So then would it be better to take the polarizer off?

 

No, you can keep it on you just have to adjust your white balance.
mine does it to me sometimes too

 

Noob question. How would I adjust my white balance? I mean I know how to go into the settings and do it, but what would I set it to? (or is it best to just play around with it?)

Is there also a way to fix the clouds, etc in photoshop?

 

If you shoot in raw its very easy to fix. You open it in Raw viewer, click the W/B tool and then click on a white spot and it gets fixed!

 

Oh sick. Yea right now I have my D40 in the highest quality setting under RAW, but I'll try to shoot in RAW next time. What's the advantages of RAW over the next setting under, (I believe its like JPEG Fine)

 

Raw is an image right off the sensor onto the memory card. It hasn't been processed yet so it can be adjusted without screwing up the image quality too bad. Jpeg+fine is ok but Raw is better and alot bigger of an image. I think 1 pic of mine is 70 MB and in rapid shots, I can only 50 do shots over before the camera is busy.

 

With your D40 if you are shooting low ISO's shoot raw. If you are shooting 800 and higher shoot JPEG because the image turns out better in JPEG for higher ISO's

 

I don't usually mess with the ISO's. Honestly I haven't figured it out yet. As of now I think I have a decent grip on shutter speed, aperture, and I think that's about it lol. I'm trying to get into a digital photography class at school but they want you to take black and white as a prereq, but I'm going for engineering so I don't have the time to take both.

But anyways, how would I mess with the ISO's?

 

ISO is the sensors sensitive to light.

The more sensitive you have it set the shorter shutter speed you can have.

You up the ISO sensitivity when you are in lower light situations and need to have a faster shutter speed.