I mostly use peaking and magnification together on my Nikon Z fc and find the combination very useful. The peaking sensitivity I use does not obscure fine detail. I can set peaking to one of four colors, white, red, yellow, and blue. There are also three levels of sensitivity settings. While I will occasionally change the color and strength of the peaking, depending on circumstances, I find using blue at the standard sensitivity setting works best for me in most situations.

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None of the Canon extenders will work with that lens. I believe the Tamron teleconverters are also not compatible with the Tamron 18-400. The 18-400 superzoom is intended as a casual vacation walk around lens, and while it can provide pleasing results for many people it is not a high quality optic and may not meet the needs of most discerning photographers. I had one for a over a year and it was a lot of fun to use because of it extreme focal range but in the end I wanted better results from my images and sold it.

It looks like my 2 -1/2 year old Nikon Z fc is still in the top 10. Nice to see that it is still very popular. This retro camera body certainly is not everyone's cup of tea. As I've mentioned before, I use it almost entirely with prime lenses, most of which are manual focus only. It is the most enjoyable shooting experience I have ever had with a digital camera and I am very satisfied with the images I get with it.

Scams and most unrequested sales calls use spoofy numbers so that the caller ID you see is not the actual number of the person calling. Those numbers belong to people who have nothing to do with the person calling you.

While the odds of it happening were extremely small, I once even got a scam sales call on my cell phone from my own cell phone number.

As a result of the wide spread use of spoofied phone numbers, threatening to block these phone numbers is a useless exercise. Scammers and unexpected sales calls from people who use spoofied phone numbers can't be blocked and really don't care is that you block the phone number coming up on your caller ID. They constantly use different spoofied phone numbers as part of their scams and to call you back 5 minutes later using a different stolen phone number.

If you need to ask the question you probably should not be shooting film. Dedicated film shooters should know why they ae shooting film, and how they plan to process it to get the results they want.

It's hard to say how sharp it is because what's presented is only a lower resolution thumbnail. It's more than likely that if he had attached a higher resolution downloadable version It would have been much sharper.

That is true, but he has posted thousands of videos over the years and many seem more philosophical to me even though I usually don't agree with him.

Apparently, nothing happened to him. Here is the link to his active YouTube page with 4 videos from the last week alone. It just appears that he has not been doing any lens reviews for quite some time. His current videos are mostly philosophical.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVcxJ9k14bi__-uA1cGkEcA

There are actually two different skylines in NYC. One is in lower Manhattan and is accessible from Liberty State Park. The much larger and more iconic skyline, is in midtown Manhattan. You can't get good shots of it from Liberty State Park. For that, Weehawken is the best place to go. A very wide angle lens or the ability to capture multiple images for panoramas should be considered.

Well, it depends on the perspective you want. You can see a lot from the 86th floor observatory of the Empire State building located at 5th Avenue and 34th Street.

"Do you ever miss having a big zoom lens for the photography that you do?"

Not at all. When I was a Canon shooter, (7D Mark II), I owned a Canon 70-200 F/2.8 L with a Canon 2X Extender. I rarely used the lens, with or without the extender. The two lenses I used the most were the Canon 15-85mm F/3.5-5.6 IS USM zoom lens and the Canon 35mm f/2 IS USM prime. Even with the 15-85 the majority of my images were at 50mm or wider. I shoot only static images, many in low natural light.

My preferred lenses these days are my three Voigtlander fast manual focus prime lenses designed specifically for the Nikon Z mount, the DX D23mm f/1.2 Nokton, the DX D35mm f/1.2 Nokton, and the FX 40mm f/1.2 Nokton. The two DX lenses are tiny and weigh a bit less than 8oz each. the 40mm FX lens is not much bigger weighing in at a bit over 11oz. All these Voigtlanders have electrical contracts and pass metadata and aperture to the body like an AF lens The only AF prime I use is the DX TTArtisan 28mm f/2.8 which, like the Voigtlanders, has a metal barrel and is quite tiny weighing a bit over 3 oz. I also have a few other TTArtisan MF primes. I really enjoy using manual focus primes on my retro Nikon Z fc body.

A couple of us mentioned the very compact Peak Design tripods. I forgot to mention I also have a much smaller, much lighter and even more compact Benro tripod which is occasionally useful but it is much shorter and much less stable than the Peak Design when fully extended. I don't tend to use it much because of its limitations, but my very light kit will work on it. Even though it is aluminum, I believe it weighs less than 2 lbs.

Even though I have an excellent Vanguard carbon fiber tripod and Vanguard head, it is too big, bulky, and heavy for me to travel with. I only use it very rarely these days. My tripod of choice is the very compact and light weight Peak Design carbon fiber travel tripod. Unfortunately it's also quite expensive

Over time my gear requirements have changed significantly and I've selected gear that specifically meets my photographic interests. My current camera is the small and light weight Nikon Z fc. I use prime lenses with it almost exclusively and the majority of them are very small manual focus lenses. I realized some time ago that the focal length of the overwhelming majority of the images I've captured were wider than longer and that fast wider angle prime lenses suited my photography goals.

This combination of a compact and lightweight camera, with compact and lightweight lenses, mounted on a compact and lightweight tripod is perfect for me and I am enjoying my photography much more than I have in the many years of lugging around large and heavy gear.

As a general rule it is best to import all your files into Lightroom and then back them up before deleting them from your original source. It is the safest way to ensure you don't lose anything.