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Mar 28, 2024 16:04:03   #
BebuLamar wrote:
It will be cheaper to build shutterless camera. The shutter mechanism isn't cheap.


Actually, my replaced shutter in my D850 was $398.00. Which I considered cheap after I got over 600,000 images on the old one. So, I figured, I got a new camera for cheap. A year after that I sold that guy on ebay for top dollar with a shutter count of only 35,000. And yes, it was stated that this was a new shutter.
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Mar 28, 2024 13:10:59   #
lukevaliant wrote:
very cool,you nailed the white,i usually blow them out!


That's why manual really pays dividends. Take a manual off green grass, green tree, you see, green reflects just about the same as a gray card, it's like carrying a gray card with you. Then drop 1.7 to 2.5 stops for that white bird.
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Mar 28, 2024 13:06:50   #
BebuLamar wrote:
It will be cheaper to build shutterless camera. The shutter mechanism isn't cheap.


Then why is the Sony a9III at $6000.00 and the a9II at $4500? Is it because of the expensive shutter mechanism in the a9II? Then why is it cheaper?
I sure you have an answer, you seem to have an answer for EVERYTHING.
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Mar 28, 2024 13:04:18   #
frankraney wrote:
1 1/2 is pounds to heavy? Not for me and I'm 768.


God bless you, how to you fit all those candles on your cake, and blow them out.

You know, weight was just one of my many many many many too's.
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Mar 28, 2024 07:56:41   #
Hydro47 wrote:
April 8th will bring a near total eclipse in my area . Everybody is getting eclipse glasses to view it. What are the safety rules for shooting the eclipse?


To answer your title question, YES, if you wear the proper protection. Didn't your mother tell you that.
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Mar 28, 2024 07:54:30   #


Too long when extended, too much plastic, too slow at both ends, too heavy, too much zoom range, too much money, just too much too late.
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Mar 28, 2024 07:52:52   #
selmslie wrote:
If it sounds like a provocative question, it was intentional.

A discussion took place recently on another thread that got me thinking about it. So I did some comparison's using a 24MP A7 III and a 45.7MP Z7 using each camera's 85mm f/1.8 lens (at f/2.8). Those lens resolutions are very close according to DXOMARK.

I viewed the results on a 2k (1920x1080, about 2MP) and 4k (3840x2160, about 8MP) monitor and couldn't tell them apart.

I printed the original full-size images on 8.5x11 Red River UltraPro Satin paper at their best settings. I still could not tell them apart.

Then I exported each image at a width of 1920 and 3840 pixels as well as at their full resolution. They will be attached to the next post.

The only time I could tell them apart was at the full resolution pixel peeped at 100%. But the only way anyone can see that is on a monitor where the magnified image is way too big to fit the screen.

There is a message here and some of you aren't going to be happy with it.
If it sounds like a provocative question, it was i... (show quote)


I am a photographer, and the image is more important than any discussion about resolution.


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Mar 28, 2024 07:50:21   #
JZA B1 wrote:
I constantly struggle to come up with what to shoot. Does it come randomly to you? Or do you plan and brainstorm and imagine the final picture first and then arrange to make it happen?

Do you shoot what you happened to see? Or do you create your shots?


Where ever I go, what ever I do, I look for images. My camera is always with me. You can find inspiration in the smallest things.
In the spring and fall I like to do closeups, in the winter months I concentrate on Florida wildlife. When with family I like to do individual portraits and family groups.
Summers find me at sporting events, soccer, high school sports have always been a passion, events are usually free, I always contact the athletic director and supply them with images I have taken.
I have a gallery at a local winery and I am always replacing images there.
Inspiration comes from within, not from someone else!!!
I have always been self motivated.
GET OFF THE COUCH AND GET OUT THERE.
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Mar 28, 2024 07:44:50   #
Great Egret in breeding colors. Green eye lore and a skirt. Wakodahatchee Wetlands.

Sony a1, Sony 200-600 @ 463mm f6.3, 1/2000 sec. iso 400. Manual exposure based on green leaf reading and then stopping down anywhere from 1.5 to 3 stops depending on the brightness of the subject. You do not want to blow out the highlights while retaining detail in the shadows.
Good luck and keep on shooting until the end.


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Mar 28, 2024 07:39:57   #
EJMcD wrote:
Thanks for responding to my question but, no offense intended, it leaves me with more questions. "images are lined up 2 months ahead"??

Lined up? Who? What? Where? Why?

Of course you are not obligated to answer but I don't comprehend.


I have thousands of images that are post able. I line them up two months ahead, one post daily. After they are lined up, I look to set up the next set.
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Mar 28, 2024 06:47:31   #
arperry wrote:
The best image of George I have ever seen. It exemplifies his status at Wakodahatchee, he is the boss!


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Mar 28, 2024 06:46:22   #
arperry wrote:
Beautiful photo of this snowy. I really like Peaceful Waters for its ideal background to capture wildlife


It is unique.
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Mar 27, 2024 18:02:33   #
EJMcD wrote:
Building suspense or trying to find it?


The images are lined up about 2 months ahead. Then I take the summers off, so that means it could be November or December this year.
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Mar 27, 2024 14:23:51   #
tcthome wrote:
You would think the parents would make sure the young'ns would get some too! Oh well, great photo.


Most parents are good about bringing in small minnows and regurgitating them into the mouths of the youngsters. It is not a proven process. The chicks position the best they can, but, size and reach will always have an advantage.
Unlike Wood Storks who are much more communal in the nest and seem to cooperate when it comes to eating.
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Mar 27, 2024 09:34:29   #
EJMcD wrote:
I'd love to see that image of all 11 feet.


coming soon
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