Lots of good advice to this point, unfortunately with the lens you have you'll never get the results you're looking for the 70-300mm is an f/4.5 - 5.6, you'll always have to PP your images as best you can and deal with the noise. To achieve what you're looking for will require a much faster lens, a f/2.8 at minimum for your zoom. Or a couple even faster primes, even then you'll be upping your ISO to maintain shutter speed.

Sounds like you're right on the money there. Thanks.

In checking out the manual on Nikonusa.com, without a hot shoe, and apparently without a commander mode for the pop up flash, I'd say your might be SOL.

MT,

Do you think this spells the obsolescence of XQD in lieu of CFE cards for those with XQD equipped cameras? With the advent of Lexar no longer producing XQD cards and leaving really only Sony and rumored production by Nikon that I'm aware of.

Congratulations MT, well deserved I'm sure. Enjoy you're trip, be safe, and shoot a bunch. We look forward to your sharing some of those images. You're very much appreciated here too on UHH. Have a very happy New Year and may you achieve the same for 2019.

TIFF still doesn't have the latitude of RAW. From NikonUSA.com


Exclusive to Nikon cameras, the NEF is Nikon's RAW file format. RAW image files, sometimes referred to as digital negatives, contain all the image information captured by the camera's sensor, along with the image's metadata (the camera's identification and its settings, the lens used and other information). The NEF file is written to the memory card in either an uncompressed or "lossless" compressed form.

The primary benefit of writing images to the memory card in NEF format rather than TIFF or JPEG is that no in-camera processing for white balance, hue, tone and sharpening are applied to the NEF file; rather, those values are retained as instruction sets included in the file. You can change the instruction set as many times as you like without ever disturbing the original image's RAW data. Another benefit of the NEF file is that depending on the camera, it retains 12-bit or 14-bit data, resulting in an image with a far greater tonal range than an eight-bit JPEG or TIFF file.

After-capture processing of the NEF file by Nikon's Capture NX2 software, or other imaging programs, offers greater control over the final image than the processing of a JPEG or a TIFF. After processing, the NEF file can be saved as a TIFF, JPEG or again as a NEF with the addition of any applied Capture NX2 processing saved inside the file as a second or alternate instruction set. As long as the original NEF file is preserved, the "digital negative" remains untouched; processing a NEF file does not alter the original instruction set.

https://www.nikonusa.com/en/learn-and-explore/a/products-and-innovation/nikon-electronic-format-nef.html

Yes I know, but the statement was to save them out as jpeg prior to PP. Which negates having shot them in RAW in the first place to get the additional latitude for post processing an unbaked file.

Skylum just release a bug fix update, check your help menu for the check for updates. You should also have received an e-mail notice on the subject.

??? This approach defeats the purpose of having shot in RAW to begin with, may as well have just shot in jpeg.

Sylvia,

Glad to hear you're okay, get well soon.

In chronological order: Still have them all too.

Minolta X-7A (35mm film)

Minolta Z-1 (3.2MP Bridge Camera)

Kyocera/Yashica Finecam S5 (5MP P&S)

Nikon Coolpix L Series (7.1MP P&S)

Nikon D3300

Nikon D90

Nikon D500

Nikon D810

And currently saving for a D850

Matrix metering, it will evaluate the entire scene.

Actually when the D90 was released Nikon considered it a Prosumer camera.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikon_D90

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

The Nikon D90 is a 12.3 megapixel digital single-lens reflex camera (DSLR) model announced by Nikon on August 27, 2008. It is a prosumer model that replaces the Nikon D80, fitting between the company's entry-level and professional DSLR models. It has a Nikon DX format crop sensor.

Nikon gave the D90's Estimated Selling Price in the United States as US$899.95 for the body alone[2] and as $1299.99 with the Nikkor AF-S DX 18-105mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR, which by itself sold for $399.95. Street prices were generally lower.[3][4]

The D90 was the first DSLR with video recording capabilities. In May 2009, the D90 won the TIPA European Photo & Imaging Award, in the "Best D-SLR Advanced" category

White balance is pretty much irrelevant when shooting RAW, no so for Jpg though.

Keep your D3300 it's better than the D3400, the only upgrade was the addition of crap bridge, and the down grade was the removal of the sensor cleaning function.