Avoiding motion blur

Thanks everybody for your help & comments..
Jasper, sorry about the subject, I agree it is not the most appropriate one ..

Cheers

Raj: No need to apologize or feel downtrodden for not having a digital SLR. Remember, many of the world's greatest photographs, including many that you might bring to mind, were made with cameras less sophisticated than the one you have.

On the online photo forums there are too many people overly proud of their equipment. The lists in people's signature lines start to look like bragging about measurements of anatomy after a while. That is why my signature line exists mainly to identify broadly the system I have experience with and that I have experience with both film and digital.

We are all beginners and even the best of us are still learning how to use our equipment and most will admit it. You do know how to use your camera, better than some, and are still learning. Even better, you aren't afraid to ask.

So I would encourage you to remove the "only" from your signature line. See here what can be done with "only" a G1 and G2: Don Ellis: Kleptography. Or maybe keep the "only" and be proud of it!

Positive attitude and make more pictures more often!

Monito
First of all, thanks for the encouraging words, beleive it or not, they are real moral boosters
Secondly all I can say is - I am stunned by looking at this site !! Its awesome (is it yours ?) such nice compositions & so rich colors. its wonderful ... I wish to navigate more tomorrow ..
Also as you can see, I have changed my signature to something positive

The Don Ellis site is not mine. I am not Don Ellis. But you are right, it is a great site!

On edit: Your new signature line is great and very much to the point!

Oh, cool. Tried playing around with the camera last night and the lens that comes with the kit is only capable of going down to f5.0 apparently. Maybe i'm doing something wrong, I dunno, but thats as low as i could roll it in manual mode. Guess I will be picking up the 50mm f1.8 lens afterall!

If you are talking about the kit lens that varies. It can go lower than f/5.0, you just have to be at a certain focal length. If you look at the front of the lens you'll se 1:3.5-5.6 , basically means f/3.5 max at 18mm, upto f/5.6 max at 55mm. So when you seen f/5.0 you were probally someone where close to the telephoto end of the lens.

ahh, outstanding. I'll check that out when I get out of work. Thanks again guys!