When you don't use ec at all, does the aperture then read 2.8 or does it remain at 3?
This might've already been mentioned for your camera but i had a d3400 and bought a 50mm f1.8 lens that had to be focused manually which being half blind, really didn't work out well until someone mentioned there was a round dot on the lower left of the viewfinder that lit if up when the camera though it was focused. Didn't work well for birds in the woods through sticks and stuff but other than that, worked much better than i could do. The d3200 might have something like that. Worked in auto and manual.
Wow. I don't think it would matter what camera or lens you using or where the light was or anything else for that matter. You obviously know how to just nail it!
I have a d810 that has "image area" in the camera icon menu that I can set to dx. So if it's an fx lens then it would crop it as if it were dx. I can't imagine the 850 doesn't have this?
Works for me. About a dollar a gig
A while ago I had replied to a post that in subsequent versions of MS Office where Picture Manager had disappeared, there was a way that you could get it back. Losing Picture Manager wasn't the original point of the post, it had just kind of gotten there. In any event I don't know who I replied to and I forgot about it and then remembered so I tried it again and sure enough it worked. So if you liked Office Picture Manager and then missed it after Office 2010, I believe this link will help you get it back. It worked for me.
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/where-is-picture-manager-58837c3e-34db-4904-95e8-4eca7b7c5730
Sorry for my misleading comment. It was a functionality that was once available, but no longer exists in its original format. Anyone who still has Office 2010 or earlier should still have access to it, however.[/quote]
You can still download picture manager from Microsoft and use it with any version of Office you use.
Wow, that is definitely dramatic!
Does the tripod have a center arm that goes up and down? Also it would seem arbitrary where the lens is pointed when just putting a camera on a tripod so maybe position a leg at a target like a tree and then set the camera in live view aimed at the tree and see what happens then repeat for the other two legs. Just my 2 cents.
Upgrade the body to any of the ones that have a focus motor in it. That just opens up a world of lens opportunities that are much cheaper than you realize. And most if not all of that glass is full frame anyway so if you ever did go ff later on, then all the cheap glass you bought works perfectly. That's what I did and I haven't regretted it yet (switched in December so haven't really had time to regret it!)