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Apr 2, 2024 06:59:43   #
PMM PHOTOGRAPHY wrote:
I want to purchase a lightning trigger and would be most appreciative of advise regarding which trigger to purchase.


Take your pick. Amazon even recommends one just for you.
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=lightning+trigger+for+camera&crid=31YT55YIVMOAZ&sprefix=Lightning+Trigger%2Caps%2C388&ref=nb_sb_ss_ts-doa-p_3_17
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Apr 2, 2024 06:58:00   #
stu352 wrote:
I managed to score a Canon 100 - 400mm zoom off Craig's list. I have a couple uses in mind where weight isn't an issue. But for just carrying it around hunting for birds or something... My arms got tired just testing it out in my backyard, and I'm not too thrilled about the prospect of the lens hanging from the body mount while carrying the camera with a camera body mounted neck strap.

I'm looking for alternate ideas to carry this thing. What are any of you folks using for heavy lenses?
I managed to score a Canon 100 - 400mm zoom off Cr... (show quote)


Cotton Carrier, back packs are what I have always used.
PS the 1-4 canon is NOT heavy. A cotton carrier would work great. But, it wimp comes into play, I would strongly suggest a back pack, this would probably be your best option.
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Apr 2, 2024 06:54:59   #
Day's old Glossy Ibis chick. Wakodahatchee wetlands.
Sony a1, Sony 600 f4 @ f4, 1/800 sec. iso 2000. Exposure was auto, taken in deep shade. I usually shoot all manual but when I switch quickly to all dark shade I switch to auto. Chick was about 40 feet from the board walk.
Focusing was small center spot placed on the chick.


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Apr 1, 2024 06:56:01   #
Java Rice Finch Indonesia. Butterfly World Florida.


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Mar 31, 2024 11:27:02   #
Jimmy T wrote:
That was my point.
I concur with your recommendation . . .
I was just providing the link to your advice to make it easier for sharisujka to investigate/follow your advice.
I didn't mean to step on any toes.
JimmyT Sends


No toes stepped on. We are good.
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Mar 31, 2024 10:12:47   #


That was one of my recommendations.
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Mar 31, 2024 08:59:03   #
robertjerl wrote:
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Mar 31, 2024 08:55:56   #
Florida Long Neck.


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Mar 31, 2024 08:53:34   #
sharisujka wrote:
I have a Nikon Z-50 that I use the adaptor that I bought when I purchased the camera with a Sigma 600mm lens.
I have no problems with that setup but I would like to go to an 800mm lens because my interest is in photographing birds, mostly for making identification when I get home if I need to. The 800mm Nikor lens is a bit pricey for me and I was wondering if a teleconvertor would work on that camera with a 400mm lens and get just as good photographs. Anyone have any insight or suggestions about this?
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There is not a teleconverter made that improves an image, so, there is only one way to go with a teleconverter, and it's not a good thing.
Look, your Z-50 is an aps-c camera, so any ff lens you put on it will automatically get a bump in field of view.
So, put a prime 400 on your camera, and it becomes a field of view of 600 mm WITHOUT a teleconverter.
My suggestion, try the 400 on your Z-50, my most telephoto lens is a 600 prime, I do wildlife professionally, I need nothing more than that for 99% of my work.
800mm entails a lot of expert handling to assure a strong sharp image.
Do us all a favor and put your money into a 400 or 500 prime and do not pass go, and do not purchase a teleconverter.
BETTER SUGGESTION
Buy the Nikon 180-600, this lens will give you a field of view of 270-900mm. You will not ever need anything else for wildlife photography, this lens is much sharper than any Sigma lens on the market in a similiar focal length.
Read the reviews on the Nikon 180-600, they are very good for a lens under 2 grand.
Plus, a zoom is more versatile than a fixed prime.
In the field I use the Sony 200-600 for much of my work, I do have a 600 prime but within a 100 yards, it is really hard to tell the difference between the two.
Below is an image with the 200-600.
If I were you I would consider this lens, the Nikon 180-600 as your go to wildlife lens.
Good luck and keep on shooting until the end.


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Mar 31, 2024 08:38:30   #
exposeu wrote:
The movie "Kodachrome" on Netflix is a movie I enjoy. The character Ben in this movie makes a couple of comments that I really believe. I was a photographer making a living shooting only film for 25 years. After that I shot digital for about 10 years. I feel more comfortable and confident shooting film. Most of my years shooting film was with medium format, Hasselblad. That is just me.

Here are the quotes from the movie:

"We're all so frightened by time, the way it moves on and the way things disappear. That's why we're photographers. We're preservationists by nature. We take pictures to stop time, to commit moments to eternity. Human nature made tangible."

"People are taking more pictures now than ever before, billions of them, but there are no slides, no prints. Just data. Electronic dust. Years from now when they dig us up there won't be any pictures to find, no record of who we were or how we lived."

Thank you for your time, have a great week.
The movie "Kodachrome" on Netflix is a m... (show quote)


Negatives will last how long buried in atomic waste?
Flash drives, external drives, hard drives will last how long buried in atomic waste?
How the F caries.
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Mar 31, 2024 08:36:53   #
exposeu wrote:
The movie "Kodachrome" on Netflix is a movie I enjoy. The character Ben in this movie makes a couple of comments that I really believe. I was a photographer making a living shooting only film for 25 years. After that I shot digital for about 10 years. I feel more comfortable and confident shooting film. Most of my years shooting film was with medium format, Hasselblad. That is just me.

Here are the quotes from the movie:

"We're all so frightened by time, the way it moves on and the way things disappear. That's why we're photographers. We're preservationists by nature. We take pictures to stop time, to commit moments to eternity. Human nature made tangible."

"People are taking more pictures now than ever before, billions of them, but there are no slides, no prints. Just data. Electronic dust. Years from now when they dig us up there won't be any pictures to find, no record of who we were or how we lived."

Thank you for your time, have a great week.
The movie "Kodachrome" on Netflix is a m... (show quote)


They'll have to pry my flash drives from my cold dead hands.
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Mar 30, 2024 19:36:21   #
robertjerl wrote:
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Mar 30, 2024 08:46:04   #
Who stole the cookies from the cookie jar, Number 1,stole the cookies from the cookie jar, WHO ME? YES YOU? COULDN'T BE, THEN WHO? number 2 stole the cookies from the cookie jar, WHO ME? YES YOU? COULDN'T BE, THEN WHO? Number 3 stole the cookies from the cookie jar, WHO ME? YES YOU? COULDN'T BE, THEN WHO? Number 1 stole the cookies from the cookie jar.................................................................

When your a black bellied whistling duck, there is no much to do hanging with the brothers all day long.


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Mar 30, 2024 08:38:09   #
PhotogHobbyist wrote:
I often see and read posts about the discrepancies of results between different camera makes with different lenses on each and the resultant differences of the images. Why wouldn't there be differences? If one wants to get the same results in photographs from two cameras, why not use the same make and model camera with a lens made specifically for that camera brand? My thoughts are that for consistency in IQ, color, and resolution Use the same brand of cameras with the same brand of lens on each. We all apparently agree that one camera is going to have a slightly different color and quality than another make or even model. That's why we each have our preferred brand and model of camera. We also all have different preferences in post processing (if used) to adjust our final version of our photos. Just my thoughts and musings.
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Interesting thought. Yes, I do agree, their are slight color differences between OEM lenses.
For instance, I have always loved facial colors brought by Nikon lenses.
I have always liked fall leaves using older AF Minolta lenses.
I really like wildlife images by Canon lenses.
In fact, I still have several Minolta lenses I still use in the fall on my Sony a1 and a9 bodies.
Good luck and keep on shooting until the end.
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Mar 30, 2024 08:34:17   #
Urnst wrote:
Does anyone have any recommendations? Thanks


This fine, outstanding, wonderful, super spectacular, great, fantastic, Nikon 10-20 mm lens will give you an field of view on your D3400 of 15 to 30mm. It is refurbished, which will save you even more money on this fine, outstanding, wonderful, super spectacular, great and fantastic lens.
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1386310-REG/nikon_20067b_af_p_dx_nikkor_10_20mm.html
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