DaveyDitzer wrote:
Using a shoe mounted flash on my D850 I experience intermittent failures of the camera to trigger the flash. I have cleaned the contacts on both the flash and the hot shoe. I have tested three different flash units (one a Nikon). I have tested the flash units on my D500 without a problem. Is there possibly some menu setting I have missed?
Please offer helpful suggestions before I pack the D850 up and off to Nikon service.
I had this issue several years ago. I needed to update the firmware for my speedlight then all worked fine. I forget the brand at the time.
Thanks all for the kind words. I just received the Nikkor 180-600mm Z lens yesterday after being on backorder since June. That plus the bird detection firmware update for the Z9 has resulted in a lot more keepers.
jdtonkinson wrote:
Great captures Jim. Yes it's fascinating to watch them land
I know, I think there's no way a bird that looks like a Tinkertoy set dropped from a tree can reassemble itself and land so gracefully, and on a dime.
I had never realized how these birds used their feathers to arrest flight. Very cool!
I've travelled extensively and used to pack up a bunch of stuff that I never ended up using. Now I pack one body (Z9 or D850), a 24-70 2.8 and a speed light. I used to think I'd need a wider angle but I never really did, especially since it's so easy to stitch panoramic shots together in Lightroom. In your case, I would recommend a 17-50 as the field of view 'equivalent' for a crop sensor camera. Sigma makes an outstanding one.
lol, I thought I was the only one
That's pretty impressive that they would do that!
Thanks, Jerry. After doing a little more research, I decided to keep the Tamron with my D850 body and go Z native with the 70-200 2.8S
Thanks. I may end up going that route, but since I only have one Tamron lens and it needs a firmware update to work properly with my Z body, I'm going to see if there is anyone local willing to let me use his/hers.
I'm wondering if anyone in the Hampton Roads area has a Tamron tap in console I could borrow to do a firmware update for one lens?
Both are nice, but the one with the sun on him is great!
As others have said, use a focal length longer than 50mm. Besides the nice natural golden hour lighting, you might want to try off camera flash (or speedlight on camera if you can't trigger or don't have someone to help you). Take a practice shot of the background and fiddle with shutter speed until the background is exposed as you would like it (not blown out and probably not too dark). Then set your aperture for the widest opening (lowest number) that works. Remember that if you have the father there, too, there will be more depth of field required. I found 5.6 to 7 worked fine. Set speedlight to TTL (or iTTL) and it should look great.
Thanks, Shel. I don't know if they are going to peter off during the summer, but I might try to learn more about these beautiful insects.
UTMike wrote:
Very nice work, Jim! I am going with the crowd, #1 is the star.
Thanks, Mike. Seems to be the trend.
Thanks, Bob! I’m loving this D850.