Many thanks for all the welcoming words and kind feedback!!

I keep a clear filter on when shooting a festival, concert, auto/bike race, offroad shenanigans and the like. Otherwise the filter is in my bag.

Yes, your are right. We started calling it a kit when we thought it could be a fox. It was a while ago.

Point well taken. There is a fine distinction between extending a topic and hijacking the same. Thanks for clarifying that the preference here is to isolate topics rather than embellish them.

Is yours a first gen or second gen 80-400? I have a good working first gen for sale ($400) in the UHH For Sale listings.

Just for giggles, this is a VERY young coyote kit that was abandoned overnight under our coach early this year. We didn't touch it, gave it water, and kept it safe until momma could return for it the next night.

The first image was when we first found it. The other images are later when the kit had some confidence that everything was going to be OK.

The kit had no fear of humans and had obviously never drank from open water. Very charming experience!

Enjoy
- Bob

Thanks Clark!

- Bob

Thanks Bill! Had to give those Avocets 5 bux to post like that. :)

Totally forgot about the "Introduce Yourself" post when I first dropped in to UHH a few weeks ago. Better late than never?

I am probably proof that doing something for a long time does not necessarily make for an expert. My first camera came along in the 1950s - a consumer twin-lens Argus that shot 620 film. Then an exchangeable-lens Argus C33, more 35mm rangefinders and SLRs along with the odd twin-lens. Naturally I have a large portfolio of images and awards from that time. . . NOT!!

A Nikon SLR was handed down to me 3-4 decades ago. Never wanting to change lens mounts, I still have a Nikon system. Nikon builds very good tools, but so do half a dozen others. There is more difference between shooters than between camera brands.

I put in 25 years as a computer programmer and data analyst, and 10 years with digital audio recording and mastering, so Post-Processing digital images when they came along made total sense to me. The PP tools we have today are amazing but I still put the emphasis on getting the shot right in the first place.

Recently my DSLR system has evolved to mirrorless. A new Nikon Z7 sports a 24-70 f/4 zoom and 85 1.8 along with adapted F-mount zooms including the 70-200 and 80-400. I like to shoot from a tripod and use a circular polarizer and ND filters as needed.

These images are tacked on here because I like them. Some go back a few years.

Seems like a job for an HDR series.

Some cameras (even phone cameras) have some on-board HDR processing if Post-Processing is not an option.

Color accuracy and dynamic range are the most important features, but the more pixels a monitor has, the more of the image can be viewed at 100%.

A 4K monitor is nominally 4000 x 2250. For comparison, a 12.1MP Nikon D700 is 4256 x 2832 so most, but not all, of the image could be viewed full-screen at 100% on a 4K monitor.

A picture is worth a thousand words, right? This is an example of the second generation Nikon 80-400 adapted to a Sony a6300.

My ink dye prints faded out in 5 -10 years. (Canon)

My pigment prints are going strong after 20. (Epson)

Yes. But I usually make some changes or hit Reset and start over after I see what auto did.

Check the video in your MacBook. If it doesn't have the premium Radeon video consider a different laptop.

If your 2012 is anything like my 2011, the RAM swap is easy. Just remove the back. Its right there.

I've never had a problem with third-party RAM in the MBP or any other computer.

The available 250gb will hold you for a while. More important to have an external backup drive.