Paulie Loc: NW IL

Yeah but don't you need a computer with a software and some knowledge for that?

Indiana Loc: Huntington, Indiana

If you have 20% equity in your home, you should be able to get a conventional mortgage loan around 4%. Perhaps you are stuck in the wrong mortgage. Refinance and get an affordable mortgage payment, then you can get the camera of choice.

Steve Perry Loc: Sylvania, Ohio

Those were really hard. They are not Photoshop though. The area has a mix of water and grass and I would time my shots (as best I could) to have as much grass and as little water as possible in the shot. The grass was relatively far away and the terns were only like 25 ~40 feet away, so the grass became a nice blur - but there wasn't much of it so I had a VERY tiny "zone" where I could capture images like this.

As an aside, that nice blur is one of the reasons I like to shoot fast primes over slower zooms. The only problem is that with the birds at such close range with a 600 F 4 set to F4 there is VERY little depth of filed, so getting the eye perfectly sharp is tricky. I had quite a few shots that were tack sharp somewhere on the bird, but not the eye. In a scenario like this, it's impossible to get ever shot perfect - but I had enough good ones (those three are just the tip of the iceberg) that I was completely happy.

Digital1022 Loc: Holland, PA

Steve
As always, very beautiful. Thanks for sharing.

John Rupley

WDCash Loc: Milford, Delaware, USA

Terms are fantastic little birds. They are aiming my favorites. The s shot really do them justice! Very nice!

RRS Loc: Not sure

No problem, I was just pulling Steve's leg a little and maybe he's a little taller now!

WDCash Loc: Milford, Delaware, USA

Ha.My stomping grounds. However Im normally a half mile eas5 the dike road on the icw'

Steve Perry Loc: Sylvania, Ohio

They're one of those common birds people take for granted, but I agree, one of my favs for sure :)

SharpShooter Loc: NorCal

Free as a bird! Give the finger to the MAN!!!
Shower and do laundry at your kids houses!!!!!
No downsides that I can think off!!!!!!?!!!!!
SS

jackinkc Loc: Kansas City

No place to park a car anyway.

BTW, I have been using a friend's Pentax 645Z and I am able to tell you all that it is a fine camera. Not only that, but many used lenses are available at very attractive prices.

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tdekany Loc: Oregon

Bet you have no kids, have your own house!!! Lol! How would you the downside to living like a free bird? Not to mention that birds work very hard to build their own homes and they get rid of their kids ASAP.

amfoto1 Loc: San Jose, Calif. USA

The 50MP Fuji GFX is the first and only "mirrorless" medium format digital camera and quite impressive. It's size and weight are pretty close to those of a "full frame" DSLR.

The only problems are...

1. Price... about $6500 for the body alone (a 50MP Canon 5DS sells for roughly half that price.)
2. Very limited lens selection... so far only five lenses are available for the GFX. (Canon makes some 60 or 65 lenses for their 5DS... Sigma, Tamron, Tokina, Zeiss and others offer many more.)
3. Cost of lenses... nearly all Fuji is offering cost around $2000 apiece. They do make great lenses, though!

If money were no object, the available lenses met my needs, I was after that last 1 or 2% of image quality and were planning to make massive prints possible with the 68% larger MF sensor.... the GFX would be near the top of my list.

Japakomom Loc: Originally from the Last Frontier

Thank you for sharing! The shots are fabulous!

BebuLamar

The Fuji GFX and the Hasselblad X1D are very close to each other in features. So the GFX isn't the only MF mirrorless nor it's the first as I think Hasselblad announced their X1D first.

mxbe

I used to shoot w/ a Fuji GX680, Fuji GSW690, (also Mamiya RZ, Mamiya 645, Pentax 67, Pentax 67 & Contax 645. Loved them all. Worked them to the bone. Couldn’t stand 35mm.
The GFX50s is an awesome camera and I’ve rented it a couple of times to test it out. It’s great for certain situations - specifically if I just wanted a very inexpensive MF 50Mp studio camera to work with Zeiss glass and a bellows system. For the money, I myself would prefer it over using a Phase back system for the limited use it’d get. Of course it’s a good form factor to run around with too from time to time - but then one’s really exposing its limitations and emphasizing the overall superiority of other choices available instead.
To me - a professional photographer shooting primarily interiors, gardens, travel and lifestyle week in week out for magazines, books and advertising (in studio and on location) the Nikon D850 is a complete no brainer EPIC camera solution.
It’s also cheap as chips (if you’re making your living with it and need 2 or 3 cameras set ups running at the same time).
The simple fact that an amazing best in class medium format quality DSLR professional camera for USD$3,300 instead of $6,600 or $33,300 or $66,600 really makes prolonged discussion just pure procrastination.
Buy the D850 and you’ll never look book or need another camera from a practical performance stand point. There’s just a ton of excellent Nikon glass available new or used at good prices.