Yeah. AL-CA-NE had me very confused until I went to the web site since AL is the abbreviation for Alabama, CA for California and NE for Nebraska.

This has been mentioned in UHH before. I believe what the OP is looking for is an HD he can backup his SD cards to without a computer. This WD HD was mentioned before.

https://www.amazon.com/Passport-Wireless-Portable-External-Drive/dp/B01F5LVTO4

I believe that this drive is available in several sizes. Google it and you may find a refurbished one.

I did not "Quote Reply" because these are general comments on topics mentioned in this thread and not to those who commented. Unfortunately none of this has to do with the OP. 😕 Sorry.

As for all you who never format your cards but just delete, you might keep in mind that you leave a lot of fragmented files when you just delete. This does affect your read/write speeds. If you never shoot more than one shot at a time and you never do video, well maybe it really doesn't matter. ☺️

As for Sony reliability, they are a very large corporation with many divisions which are not all the same. Some of their products I like and some I don't. I personally don't like their computers. I had one with a known defect that showed up after the warranty expired and Sony would not help owners of that model. I still have my last Sony Betamax which had high quality sound and a great picture quality for the time. I've owned Sony Trinatron TV's from the 70's to current HD TV's. I've owned Sony CD players and a great Sony CD changer that I still use. I've owned Sony DVD and Blue-Ray players. All good products but I have had some of them stop working and had to replace them. It happens with all companies. As for Sony cameras, remember that as has been said on here, they came from Konica Minolta which is another division of Sony. Still another division makes professional video equipment. I said all that to say all Sony products are not the same. Some are of better quality than others and I believe you can say that of most large companies with many divisions.

I have that happen a lot to me when traveling. I usually carry my D750 with the 24-120mm lens with my other equipment and lenses in my backpack. Maybe I'm a bit paranoid about letting it out of my hand when I travel. ☺️ As my wife and I were boarding a cruise ship the photographer who photographed us as we boarded mentioned how he wished he had my camera. He was shooting with a Nikon as well. On several different flights an airline stewardess has said "my what a nice camera". Once was as I was exiting the plane so no time for more than just a thank you. Usually I do just say thank you unless l'm not walking away and they seem to want to talk more. I have been asked if I was a professional photographer which I'm not.

I don't like doing weddings but my cousin recently asked me to video her daughter's first dance at the reception. I have the Nikon D750 and had never shot video with it before.

This is what I learned. Modern DSLRs are limited to 29 minutes 59 seconds of video because if the do 30 minutes then the EU considers them video cameras and charges a higher tarrif. I thought that was pretty stupid but it seems that might be so. However, at higher resolutions and frame rates that time limit is even shorter.

I also learned that if you use auto focus and the camera's built in mic then you pick up all the motor noise of the lense focusing. I decided on manual focus and used Nikon's external mic which I thought did a good job.

Since I was just doing the dance, time wasn't an issue for me. I used my 24-120mm lense that I bought with the camera. The lighting was on the dark side but I set the camera to auto ISO that I normally never use but needed because I had to set the shutter speed to 1/60 to match double my frame rate of 30 fps. There are technical reasons for this you can research if you wish but that is how I understood that it should work and it did for me. I also had the apature wide open.

I used my tripod. That is how I managed to keep from moving all over the place with my video. I set up in a corner and had the entire dance floor in my view. When the father of the bride stood in the center of the dance floor I manually focused on him. The bride and groom entered from the left so I slowly panned to the left and followed them back to the dance floor. With my lense zoomed out I was able to capture them as they moved about without having to do a lot of panning and zooming. I was very pleased with the results, even the audio.

The recommendation is that you manually set the audio levels but in my haste to change all my settings to do video I left the audio level set to auto and it came out pretty good.

There are a number of YouTube videos that explain this better than I have but you can do it with your D750 and have a video of great quality.

I recommend that you do practice before hand and check out the YouTube videos. Set your video settings, (1080 at 30fps or whatever) and video until it stops to see how long you can video before time runs out so you won't be surprised at the wedding.

Best of luck.

I'm a little late with this reply but here are my thoughts. You've been given good advice on the amount of RAM you need. 16gb is great but you can get by with less. Get too little and it will be your bottle neck slowing down your processing. PS and LR do require more Ram than other apps like your word processor or email program. As for computer makes, you can get a lemon from any of them. I prefer to buy directly from the manufacture like Lenovo.com or HP.com. I have found that they will sale some lesser performing models at the retail stores than they will sale directly. In particular in order to be competive they seem to cut back on quality control on models at some of the wholesale clubs compared to similar models sold elsewhere. If you do many pictures I'd recommend a 1TB hard drive for storage. I'd also recommend that at least have 1 USB external hard drive for backup. Even new hard drives fail. I recommend Western Digital. You can get their Passport 4Tb drive for a little over $100 and it comes with automatic back up software so that you don't have to hassle with backing up, it is just done for you.

As for Dell. Many people love them but they have always frustrated me greatly. I find them built for obsolescence compared to Lenovo and HP which I've found to be easier to upgrade when necessary. I also find Dell more difficult to work on.

Lenovo and HP both have great tech support. As a typist I prefer the keyboards of Lenovo and Dell. If you aren't familiar with Lenovo, they bought the IBM PC division and still make computers like IBM did with tech support out of Atlanta, Georgia. Lenovo's ThinkPad laptops are some of the best you can buy.

You can call Lenovo or HP and they will be able to advise you on a model that will meet your technical specifications. Of course the better the specifications the more expensive the computer so you have to decide what is most important to you for your needs. At a minimum I'd recommend 12GB RAM (16 GB is better) , 1TB hard drive and an Intel i5 processor. Actually if it is within your budget I'd really recommend the i7 processor. You'll be able to operate PS and LR just fine with an i5 but it seems that an i7 just is able to handle updates and new software longer into the future than the i5. I'd stay away from the i3. With the i3 you are starting off slow and as you upgrade and add new software it will just get slower.

Rember to consider an extended warranty. If you buy a 3 or 4 year extended warranty, any problem and you just call and send it to them and usually have it back in a week or less. Some even give you the option of having a tech come to you for repair.

Best of luck with your new purchase.

Buy it now! Nikon has a great deal. I LOVE my D750 and 24-120mm vr Nikkor lens. I have other lenses but find that they stay in my camera bag most of the time. I love the low light capability of this camera. I like the way it feels in my hand even with the 24-120mm lens. For me it does get a bit heavy carrying it around all day with the battery pack but the battery pack is nice to have if you need it. I haven't found the 24-120mm to be soft but maybe because I have the VR version.

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I like #2 the best. I like the sweeping curves in the picture. I like that there is a lot for me to look at and for my eyes to focus on. My eyes get lost in #1 and #3 like I don't know where I'm supposed to be looking.

I wondered where it was myself and I live in the US. It helps when the poster's location is listed in the profile. Many times people mention locations as if everyone knows. When the posters location is in the profile, many times that will clue us in. In this case we didn't even have that hint.

My Nikon FE was not auto focus. That was my film camera. You didn't focus with the shutter button. I focused with the focus ring on the lens and took the picture with the shutter button once I was focused. For moving subjects you were kind of doing both at once so even though I don't remember thinking that it was a big deal, it certainly seems a bit more than BBF.

I have the same problem. Time and again I've taken pictures when I didn't mean to because I pressed just a little bit too hard on the shutter button. BBF eliminates that problem.

I use my tablet to read this forum and it will display nef files. I use my computer for LR and PS for MY photos, not photos on here.

Sorry but I couldn't resist after your iPad comment. I'm using my Samsung tablet and it is quite easy to see the noise. 😁

Like I said, get what you want and can afford. You'll learn and eventually be glad for all the options that you didn't know how to use when you bought your camera if you get one you can grow with. Many of us learned to shoot with 35mm film cameras, the full frame equivalent. We didn't have a DX option. With an FX you can still use a DX lens in DX mode.