Originally Posted by TNguyen7

i can do 1/60 shutter and pictures will turn out good but lower then that i'm pushing it and might get lucky just takes practice

Originally Posted by hoss4131

so i just bought a Nikon D40, my entry into the world of DSLR's , and i dont understand the shutter speed display at all... how do i know what my shutter speed is, if it doesnt have a quotation mark behind it (") im guessing then just put a 1/xxx and thats my shutter speed?

also, i cant remember exactly, isnt the rule of thumb that you can generally hand hold to about 1/64th of a second?

so far im already really digging the camera . i had one really cool shot that i accidentally deleted . i set the camera on the table, with a shutter speed of what i think was 6 seconds, opened the shutter, then put a beer bottle in front of it. it resulted in a ghost image of the beer bottle that i thought was pretty cool