{"id":2638,"date":"2009-02-21T16:18:17","date_gmt":"2009-02-21T08:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=2638"},"modified":"2009-02-21T16:18:17","modified_gmt":"2009-02-21T08:18:17","slug":"d300-mb-d10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2009\/02\/21\/d300-mb-d10\/","title":{"rendered":"D300 + MB-D10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the pictures I took when I first had my SLR in the 80s were portrait shots. Now, the <a href=\"http:\/\/knol.google.com\/k\/vesna-kozelj\/how-to-hold-the-camera-with-your-hands\/3k0expg5xjecw\/2#\">right way to take portrait-styled<\/a> pictures is to use an underhand rather than an overhand grip. Besides that taking portrait pictures with the latter makes you look like a chicken with outstretched wings, the underhand grip allows you to more easily close your elbows to stabilize your shots.<\/p>\n<p>The best way though is to use a battery or vertical grip. So, I finally got round to picking up the MB-D10 grip for the D300 not locally here though, but from an online Malaysian retailer <a href=\"http:\/\/yamiya.com.my\/store\/\">Yamiya<\/a>. Interestingly, while optical equipment in MY is typically more expensive than here, the MB-D10 was one item that was, surprisingly, cheaper even when compared to Amazon pricings.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" title=\"blog-2009-photography-P1000573-mbd10-flickr\" src=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/blog2009photographyp1000573mbd10flickr.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2009-photography-P1000573-mbd10-flickr\" width=\"600\" height=\"428\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the D300 + MB-D10 with my Sigma 24-60mm f2.8. The thing weighs quite a bit, but it\u2019s amazingly easier to hold now for vertical shots.:)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the pictures I took when I first had my SLR in the 80s were portrait shots. Now, the right way to take portrait-styled pictures is to use an underhand rather than an overhand grip. Besides that taking portrait<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2009\/02\/21\/d300-mb-d10\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  D300 + MB-D10<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[277,137],"class_list":["post-2638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography-cameras","tag-nikon","tag-d300","wpcat-13-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}