I hate carrying tripods around. It is such a hassle to carry it around, take only a couple of pictures and bring it back home. In the last couple of years, I haven't had a tripod. Whenever I needed one, I improvised with various things that fell to hand at that moment, a bench, wall, table, ...

I recently bought the Nikon SB-400 flash for my Nikon D40. To be honest, I hate flash. I hate the cold look, the bright foreground, dark background and everything else. I hate the towering look of the classic standalone flashes, they look too big and too unnecessary, it looks like I am trying to look like ...

The Nikon ML-L3 is a small remote control that works with the Nikon D40 and many other Nikon cameras. I guess the main purpose for getting one would be to appear in photos that you take. It is also useful when you are shooting on a tripod and you do not want to introduce camera shake ...