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Aug 30, 2019 14:06:42   #
I think the two unidentified are both Black Swallowtail.
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Sep 12, 2018 14:01:11   #
suntouched wrote:
For anyone that owns this combination can you tell me if the lens hunts significantly with the T/C attached? Thanks.


I use the Nikon AF-S FX NIKKOR 300MM f/4E PF ED with the 1.4x, 1.7x version II, 2.0x TC and a D750, and they all are combinations that are light enough to carry for hours. The 1.4x combination is very fast and may hunt a little more than the 300mm lens alone but not enough to matter unless you are in very low light conditions. In fact for birding I found that with the 1.4x I could not get close enough many times. Therefore my carrying lens for birding has become the 1.7x combination with which I am very satisfied. The image quality between the 1.4x and 1.7x combination is nearly the same. but not quite enough when you consider the 420 mm versus 500 mm. I realize there's only 80 mm difference but it seems to make quite a difference in how close you have to be from the target! I have used these combinations for 3 years and love them! I have a Nikkor 200-500 mm lens also, but it's just too heavy to handhold for an older person like me to carry unless I use my tripod. However, I have found that the 200-500 mm lens is awesome with the 1.4x and 1.7x TC but just too heavy for me to carry for long periods while birding.
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May 30, 2018 20:01:45   #
rehess wrote:
That is correct, but irrelevant to the question. I repeat my statement from above : there is no reason to take a picture planning to throw away half the pixels via cropping if purchasing the "correct" lens can avoid that step.


In my opinion it was relevant to the OP's question. I agree with you. Why throw away pixels? No reason, unless you wish to crop a photo for whatever the reason. I was merely explaining how the FF view or scene could be the same as the crop view or scene, and that is by cropping the FF photo. It's not anything I would recommend doing unless there was a reason.
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May 30, 2018 16:25:53   #
The Villages wrote:
BillyBoy: Could you please restate, as I see a conflict in how you stated (or the way I read it). I see getting a 300mm for the same FOV, but then you seem to say that I'd need a 200mm lens.


I will use an example: Since you understand that it would take a 300mm FX lens to get the same view, if you snapped a photo with both cameras using 200mm lens, the APS-C photo would show less of the same scene than the FF photo. Therefore in order for both photos to show the same scene you would have to crop the FF photo in post processing. Additionally, to see the same view as with the APS-C with 200mm you would have to use a 300mm FX lens on the FF.
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May 30, 2018 10:43:37   #
The Villages wrote:
Have a crop DSLR. Thinking of going to a Full Frame and trying to determine what the the longest focal length (on average) I am in need of....by reviewing pictures I have taken.

I shot Nikon, so I am fully aware of the "field of view" 1.5 factor. Soooo, when looking at the shooting data for a particular picture I'm provided with 2 figures, one for "Focal Length", the other for "35mm Focal length" For example the focal length shows 200MM and the 35 focal length shows 300MM (the affect of the 1.5 factor).

I'm trying to determine IF I had taken the picture with a Full Frame camera, which number should I be going by in helping me to determine (on average) which focal length on the long end I should be aiming at.

Appreciate your insight.
Have a crop DSLR. Thinking of going to a Full Fram... (show quote)


I think that SteveR is answering the OP's question correctly. The OP wants to know what FF lens he would get for a FF camera to get the same result that he gets on his crop camera and his 200mm DX lens. He would need to get a 300mm FF lens on a FF camera to SEE the same view (FOV), but he would get a 200mm FF lens on a FF camera to get the same result. The cropping is done in the camera with APS-C and in post processing with FF.
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May 7, 2018 11:43:19   #
TriX wrote:
Hmmm. You've already done the things I would have, including the manual keyboard in the event it wouldn't recognize the USB one. Clearly, it's recognizing some legacy Windows info.

Assuming the OS is on the SSD, if worse came to worse, I wonder what would happen if you unplugged the SSD and tried the install. You could temporarily install Windows on one HD (assuming you have the room), then add the SSD (making sure you boot from the HD in BIOS), partition and format the SSD, then reboot the system with only the SSD and DVD installation disk, build windows on the SSD, then reboot (with the SSD as boot) with the HDs added and erase the Windows directory on the HD.
Hmmm. You've already done the things I would have,... (show quote)


That would have been time consuming but I think would be doable. Have any idea why it tries to boot from one of the 2 backup drives instead of the SSD with the OS? It is a pain having to go to the boot menu to boot to the right drive!
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May 7, 2018 11:03:55   #
Finally I decided it had to be a hardware problem. I have 3 hard drives in the computer and maybe during the Windows 10 feature update when the computer tried to restart it didn't remember which drive the operating system was on. I had that problem before. I took off the side cover and unplugged the 2 drives I used for backups. Then the computer booted up and finished updating before totally booting up. What a relief!

Again I want to thank all the Hogs who made suggestions, especially TriX who hung with me til the end.
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May 7, 2018 09:55:55   #
TriX wrote:
Two suggestions: first on the USB stick with the Windows 10 ISO, plug the USB drive into another running machine, go to disk management and check that the file system on the USB is FAT32 and that the drive is marked as active (bootable). If all that is good, go into the BIOS on the bad machine, and in the boot menu, disable secure boot and enable legacy boot. Then try again with both the USB and your DVD(s).


USB Windows 10 ISO is FAT32 and active. DVD is UDF Healthy (Primary Partition). I built the PC with an ASUS motherboard and the BIOS doesn't those options in the boot menu. I did change the USB from Auto to Enable in another menu. I even burned another DVD by another program with no different result. What puzzles me is that occasionally a starting window "Preparing Automatic Repair) appears and it goes to a screen of different countries with "US" highlighted. The keyboard does not react when I hit "enter" or any other key. The keyboard works otherwise. I even dug out my old cabled keyboard and plugged it in. It works but not on the repair screen. At the bottom of the screen is "See More Keyboard Layouts".
Back to the drawing board! Thanks for hanging with me TriX.
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May 6, 2018 22:34:25   #
I burned the Windows 10 ISO on a DVD and booted it up on the lame computer. It booted to the Windows 10 emblem, then I'm assuming something was being loaded from the booted DVD for a minute or so (no message), then the blank screen appeared again where it continued with nothing else happening. I'm sleeping on it; then tomorrow is another day! Thanks everyone for you help and encouragement.
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May 6, 2018 21:47:48   #
TriX wrote:
Try that (putting the ISO on DVD and seeing if it will start the install). Peter is right - you just have to keep trying different paths until you get in...


Downloading the Windows 10 ISO and will burn to DVD double layer as I write this. I'm 84 and persistent!
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May 6, 2018 21:08:05   #
rehess wrote:
Do you have bootable media for some other O/S so you can demonstrate that the issue is not in the boot process for your computer?


The computer boots from a Windows 7 DVD that the Windows 7 upgraded from, and it loads all the Windows files. The Microsoft emblem comes up with "Windows is Starting", and it goes to a blank screen with a large mouse cursor. Then it stalls at that point. The operating system is on a SSD drive with 2 other Hard drives. I disabled all drives other than the DVD Rom and the SSD in BIOS. Another thing I could try is putting Windows 10 ISO on a DVD and see if it boots with that. I really appreciate all your suggestions. Thanks.
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May 6, 2018 19:05:27   #
TriX wrote:
Hopefully you can repair the installation from the repair console. If it won’t boot at all, perhaps the MBR (master boot record) needs to be repaired or the disk just needs to be scanned and repaired - you can do both. If you can get into the Windows installation program, you should have a number of choices, including reinstalling, repairing an installation, or booting into safe mode. The key is to get to that point.


I downloaded "Create Windows 10 installation media" which is the ISO, and installed it on a USB drive. It doesn't boot from that either. My problem is that I can't boot into anything. As a brief pause it goes directly to the Microsoft window and attempts to boot up, but it doesn't. Sometime it goes directly to a repair window where the option is to choose the country, but this window does not respond to the mouse or keyboard. The mouse and keyboard are functioning OK. If I could get into safe mode I could revert back to a previous state. Thanks for your help. I used to build computers as a hobby and am fairly knowledgeable about the hardware and operating system software, but I've never dealt with Windows 10 on this kind of problem. I'll keep working on it.
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May 6, 2018 17:43:50   #
TriX wrote:
Do you have the windows installation disk or the ISO on a USB memory stick? If you don’t, you can download the ISO from Microsoft (at no charge). Go into the BIOS on startup (typically the Del key) and change the boot order to boot from the DVD or USB (as appropriate). That will get you into Windows installation, and you can then choose the recovery console, reinstall, repair, etc. and go from there. Let us know if that doesn’t work, and we can collectively brainstorm other potential solutions. Good luck!
Do you have the windows installation disk or the I... (show quote)


Thank you for that info TriX. If I reinstall the OS I'll have to reinstall all my programs, but if that's what I have to do I'll do it.
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May 6, 2018 10:42:50   #
lamiaceae wrote:
Weird, my Dell Win 10 Home system seems to be fine. But then again it came with Win 10 from the factory. Yet as far as I know my wife's PC that came as a Win 7 Pro Dell has always worked fine with Windows 10 as well.

You may have out of date drivers. I'm dubious of Windows 10 being at fault per se. Windows Vista, 2000, and 95, those truly were junk! Inadequate hardware is always a problem.

By-The-Way if you have the Pro version of Windows 10 and can either delay or skip an update, if you have the Home version you are more or less at Microsoft's mercy. I usually just don't use or activate or configure Apps I am not interested in.
Weird, my Dell Win 10 Home system seems to be fine... (show quote)


My USB problem has been resolved. I have 2 desktops and a Microsoft Surface, and I had problems with all three whiile installing the April Feature updates. The Surface had the USB problem and after trying many "fixes" with a Microsoft Rep, the final step was updating the USB3 driver. I tried that in the beginning but did not resolve the problem then. I built both desktops and my wife's desktop was the least affected. My desktop is the problem now. It will not boot up! Unfortunately I didn't create a Recovery Drive for that computer. I can boot into the BIOS but haven't been able to boot into Safe Mode so I can restore it to an earlier state in time. I've tried all the F keys including Delete key but it refuses to go into Safe Mode. Any suggestions would be appreciated. I strongly recommend that everybody create a Recovery Drive for their specific computer using Windows 10 or any operating system below Win 10. A recovery drive created by one computer will not work on a different computer!
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May 5, 2018 14:58:48   #
Thank all of you for your responses! I worked with a Microsoft technical representative for nearly 3 hours and after jumping through hoops, it was found to be a USB3 driver problem. Funny think is that I updated that driver before contacting Microsoft and it had no effect, but after trying many flip flops and then going back to the driver update it worked. The rep was very persistent and wanted to uninstall and reinstall the operating system, which would mean that I had to reinstall all my programs. When I was reluctant she decided to try updating the driver and it worked! Thanks again Hogs!
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