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Mar 20, 2023 09:48:50   #
Canisdirus
 
Rainforest is a term...a general term.

Patterns... it's dark...darker than you expect...not for your eyes...but for your camera.
Light is...everything.
It's wet...often...and then again...20 minutes later...and again...and again.

Use your own best judgement in lens choices.
Most important...slow down...take your time...on the setup.

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Mar 20, 2023 11:40:30   #
jimneotech Loc: Michigan
 
Retired CPO wrote:
You're making a mistake by dismissing the 200~500 zoom. It's the best kept secret in Nikon's collection!


Absolutely!

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Mar 20, 2023 12:51:47   #
larryepage Loc: North Texas area
 
I have the 200-500mm f/5.6 and love it. But I would never take it into a rain forest environment. It sucks a huge amount of air into its interior (and the camera's interior) every time it is zoomed out. I do not want moisture-saturated rainforest air inside my lens or my camera. It's a poor choice for this application.

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Mar 20, 2023 13:19:49   #
Meganephron Loc: Fort Worth, TX
 
willy6419 wrote:
I understand the triangle, ss, aperture, iso and use LrC/Ps for post, shoot raw, with D850 or D500, pretty well.

I shoot for fun, but like sharp images, nicely composed. Lens choices are 50 1.8,24-70 2.8; 300 pf 4, 70-200 2.8; 80-400 4.5-5.6 and 105 2.8 macro. Have TC1.4

Sounds like you’re a Nikon user. Auto ISO works well especially with my D4s. Result are good with my D750, but slightly less
Will visit Costa Rica in June, and wildlife may be static, but need be ready for the 'cute movement shots, in varying light conditions.

I've not experienced the jungle light conditions, normally shoot wildlife in better lighting, but I'm studying how to optimize sharp, with noise that I can improve, use auto ISO or set a button to increase ss/iso as soon as movement starts. I can Pano merge landscapes with the very lightweight 50mm, if compelling or simply go for the wildlife.

I'll take the 105 for macro and a flash.

I can't afford/justify a 600 mm F4 (it's a hobby), and not that interested in the 200-500.

So, that said:

Maybe my light concerns aren't something to worry about?

Maybe use off-camera flash, but that has hand, speed and distance limits?

Maybe the 70-200 with or without the tc 1.4. but i give up a lot of reach, gain aperture vs 80-400.

I like the 300, but it's fixed.

Any references, YouTube videos or tricks, thoughts are welcomed.

I use a cotton carrier while hiking.


Thanks,

Bill
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Mar 20, 2023 15:09:03   #
Spirit Vision Photography Loc: Behind a Camera.
 
larryepage wrote:
I have spent a lot of days over the last seven years in the classroom with a number of art teachers. A couple of them are very strong photographers, two are experts in art history and museum & gallery exhibitions, a couple are experts at the craft of art, and a couple are really good artistic storytellers. We have lots of interesting and fun discussions, and I have been fortunate to learn a ton from them without having to take any exams.

Three things we have talked a lot about are context, scale, and perspective. We've looked at a lot of photographs together. And one thing we have discovered is that a lot of folks seem to spend a lot of money travelling to exotic places to take the same "head and shoulders" portraits of animals(and birds) that they could capture at their city zoo of exactly the same species. There is absolutely no sense of place and environment in the vast majority of the photographs. We've even come up with a descriptive term for it. We label the photographs as "over-zoomed."

With even with the middle of the road equipment available today (and for the past several years), there is pkenty of resolution available to simply back off from the subject. Let us, the viewers, be able to see that the animal is in the top of a very tall tree. Let us see that the gull is perched atop a very large iceberg. Yes, the hawk is very interesting, but so are the branches of the bristlecone pine it's perched in. I know what a bald eagle looks like. I saw one really close up at the state fair. But I've never seen anything like that nest the size of four king-size beds that she and her mate have been building over the past ten or twelve years. Get the ldea?

I know that this is a big trip and that you want to be ready for what you encounter. Just give some thought to what you want to do with it. The answer will guide you to what lenses you need.
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