This looks good. I’ll check it out. Thanks much.
You’re right, 250 is too many. When I did soccer or flag football I posted about 50 per game. Baseball is a little more of a challenge because I get carried away with the sequence I shoot of the few action shots I can get during a game. Going to have to do some more deleting. Thanks
Thanks. Probably stick with Flickr.
I’ve been asked to be the team photographer for my grandson’s high school baseball team. Years ago I used Flickr and posted about 50 pics a game in a slide show for soccer games. Flickr created a link that was sent to parents so they could view each game. I’m coming up with about 200-250 shots each game now and I’ll have to check to see if Flickr will let me post that many. Does anyone know of a better app to post that many photos and which gives parents easy access for viewing?
It may come down to why you take travel photos in the first place. If you want to have memories of what you experienced and reminisce and share some pics with friends on a phone or computer screen, a good cell phone is probably the best choice. If you like to edit your photos, make larger prints, maybe create some wall art, then a good dslr and an 18-300 zoom is the way to go. I’ve made Shutterfly albums of my two European vacations. A few years ago I took my old Nikon d5200 and an 18-300 to Italy, came back with about 3500 pics, and put about 150 of the ones I liked in a hard copy album. Our next trip was to Austria down to Greece and my wife said no more big camera and stop taking so many photos. Her ultimatum was either her or the camera. Took a few days to decide but ended up just taking an old iPhone 6 (and my slightly older wife), and still came back with about the same number of pics (using a Bluetooth pocket trigger makes taking lots of photos less obvious). I put my favorites in another album and guess what? The photos in both albums are excellent and have provided nice memories over the years. Maybe you lose a little in vey low light situations, but I seldom need that capability.
I can’t answer your question, but maybe my experience with DSLRs and cell phones can give a little insight into this trend. A few summers ago my wife and I went on a vacation to Italy. I took my Nikon d5200 and an 18-300 lens. I came home with about 3,000 pics, about 100 of which I made into a Shutterfly album of nice photos and memories. A couple of years later we took a trip from Vienna to Athens. I started to pack my DSLR when my wife informed me that if the camera came on the trip she was staying home. Easy choice until I remembered that I had already paid for the trip. My iPhone 6 would have to do. Came home from that trip with about 3,000 pics, and again a Shutterfly album with nice pics and memories. Maybe it’s a critique of my photography skills, but when looking at these albums I can’t tell which camera was used for which album. Certainly a d850, a prime lens and a tripod would get me better photos, but for most people taking photos for fun and memories, that easy to carry and use cell phone is just fine.
I’ve used PM for a couple of years and it works well for quickly going through a large set of photos. I come home from grandkids’ games (soccer, little league, etc.) with 300-500 or more pics. I dump them into a file and save it on an external hard drive. I then run that desktop file through PM and in a few minute can pick out the few that I want to save in my computer. There are no doubt several programs that do much the same thing, but I like the ease of quickly scrolling through lots of pics and simply tapping a button as I go through them to save the ones I want. The saved pics are then easy to transfer into the second and final file.
photoman43 wrote:
In addition to the above, add a Nikon 1.4x tc to your 70-200mm f2.8. If you need more focal length, consider getting the Nikon 300mm f4 PF lens, both with and w/o a 1.4x tc. That lens and tc on a D 500 is a great combination and is light in weight, easy to use had held, and image quality is very good. I use that combo all the time when I do not need to use my 500mm f4.
Hadn’t thought of that, thanks much.
billnikon wrote:
When I went to the FIELD OF DREAMS in Cooperstown Pennsylvania, I was privileged to have the opportunity to photograph my Grand Nephew pitching for his team. I prefer the Nikon 200-500 to the Nikon 80-400 for two reasons.
The 200-500 is a E lens, that means the aperture is electronic, meaning that when I am shooting 10 fps I know every exposure is going to be the SAME, not the same with the 80-400 which is not an E lens.
The second reason I like the 200-500 is because IMHO it is sharper throughout it's range especially at it's high end at 500.
Lets add a third reason, the 200-500 has more reach than the 80-400, on your D500 the 200-500 gives you a 750mm field of view compared to 600mm with the 80-400. And yes, this makes a real difference.
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Great info, thanks very much.
Jules Karney wrote:
I shoot high school sports. I also have the Nikon D500 coupled with the 80-400. A very good lens, sharp and fairly fast auto focus. Enclosed are a few shots taken with it. I also have just purchased the 200-500 5.6. The reach is better of course, soft at 500mm but pretty darn good also. A new 80-400 is about $2700.00 and the 200-500 $1250.00. Maybe rent both and see which one you like better.
Good luck.
I’ll likely opt for the 80-400 mainly because I don’t want to carry both a longer reaching lens and my 70-200. Like so much in life it’s a trade-off. Thanks for the feedback and sending the photos. Greg
I’m looking for some advice from those of you with experience using the Nikon 200-500 or the 80-400. My photography hobby consists mostly of trying to get good action shots at the grandkids’ soccer and little league games. I have the latest version of the 70-200 2.8 teamed up with a d500 and I’m very happy with the results. I can get close to soccer fields so the 70-200 would likely always be the lens for soccer. But my grandson plays travel ball baseball and many of the fields are set up where you must stand much farther away from the action to get an unobstructed shot. Sometimes I’ll use my old trusty 18-300 and manage to get some good pics, but because I often have to crop in I think I’d like a little more reach. The 80-400 would be more versatile, so maybe it comes down to how well these lenses AF on moving subjects. Any suggestions would be appreciated, thanks.
FWIW, took over 3K pics on a similar vacation about three years ago using an 18-300. Got a lot of nice shots, but in looking at the files when I got home I saw that very few were over 100mm.