In theory the Tamron G2 lens should give you a slightly better quality result , whether that is noticeable in the real world is another issue .

However, you can attach a 1.4 teleconverter to the Nikon, with a 280-700 focal length as a result and you will still have autofocus , albeit limited to the centre point .

Just another pain to add confusion .

Brilliant, only here in the UK

Thanks for your help here. The thought of being able to use the silent shutter on my Z got me so excited that I did not check it out properly. That’ll teach me to get excited. I will just have to keep my D-SLR

I meant to say I can’t get it to focus. No wonder I can’t get it to work.

I can use use autofocus on this lens on my DSLR, D850, but can get it to work on my Z6 with the FTZ adaptor. Manual focus works fine on both cameras.

The lens is a 70-180 D Macro lens

Any of you Hoggers have any ideas what mistake I am making ?

Hi,

I hope that I have understood your issue. It is possible to trigger a non Godox flash with a Godox flash trigger.

I did it once with a friend but have forgotten the detail. From memory the flash is set to TTL and then the attached trigger is itself triggered from the Godox trigger on the camera.

I’ll have a go at duplicating this tomorrow and PM you, hopefully my memory will kick In by then assisted by high levels of caffeine.

I was really surprised by just how fast a shutter speed is needed to avoid blur. I have also been told that the higher the pixel count of the sensor, the higher the shutter speed needed. Sometimes a bit of blur looks good for a moving subject.

Feel stupid asking this . Is there any formula that can be applied to determine an optimum focal length for a lens when the size of the object and distance to the object are known and the intention is to fill the frame on say a full frame sensor.

Lay in, I can take it.

There seems be a lot of confusion about crop sensors and focal length.

The focal length for a lens is normally the distance from the sensor to the point of focus in the lens. Putting it on a smaller sensor does not alter focal length . What you get is a smaller field of view and the effective view you would have from a lens of that focal length .

So a 100mm lens on a full frame sensor is just that . Put it on a 1.5x crop sensor and you have the filed of view that a 150mm lens would have on a 1.5 crop sensor , you still have a 100mm focal length .

Look closely at the marketing stuff of the photography companies , they will talk about 1000mm efov.

I will also be 68 in two months, perhaps we should have a joint Virtual (Covid) birthday party and not invite each other or anyone else.
Good luck on Re establishing this photography affliction.

Many many years ago I had a very young cousin who refused to go in a car if his mother was driving. One day he was threatened with the option of either going with his mother or going to bed. He went straight to his bedroom , put his pyjamas on and went to bed.

I saw an alternative to a gimbal on YouTube which I was very interested in but stupidly forgot to make a note.

It gave all the functionality of a Gimbal but was much smaller , lighter and just mounted on the tripod head. Might be worth contacting the big shops to see if they know of the product. I can’t search my UT history because I watched on my TV.

Apologies for a near useless post but if I find it I will let you know.

Genius ! really impressed. Good luck and keep well

Hi,
Not quite , you forgot about the sales tax and state and federal taxes .

In the UK, if a company starts off with £113.80 and wishes to pay an employee a £100, the employee ends up with £68 after employers national insurance , income tax and personal national insurance

If the employee then but say a table lamp with the £68 they will have paid £11 in Value Added Tax (20% sales tax)

So the company started with £113.80 and the Gov got 50%, and thats just for a basic rate tax payer !

This is confusing me and I’d be grateful for some help

A pro photographer told me that the higher the number of megapixels on a sensor the higher the shutter speed needed to get sharp photos and the earlier that diffraction sets in. The sensor on my camera is 41MP and seen examples where diffraction has set in at F8.
A video by the Northrups showed that the denser pixels did defract earlier but the extra detail gave better results overall.

The 60+MP full frame sensors on the market I just can’t see the sense or logic

Help and keep safe.