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wev

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dh photography

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Day wandering around Crab Orchard Lake. Managed a few decent shots for an old 80-200 on my D7000. Ran into a fellow with a D810 with a Sigma 800mm f5.6 on. Unfortunately he was extremely rude and snobbish. Guess he thinks his gear makes him a better man. LoL. Jerk.


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J-see

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I took the D750 to the same place, same lens, same kind of shots and about as unfavorable light conditions as possible. Harsh light and too much contrast to be good. I started with 800 ISO and pushed it up to 6400 just to see what it can and can't do. There's inevitable noise during this kind of shooting but I wanted to know how much and what could be fixed or was tolerable.

I actually laughed out loud during my first shots. With a second card to grab overflow, shooting at continuous is insane. The AF with the same lens compared to the D3300 is like the difference between a Fiat Uno and a BMW. It's fast and even while not always spot on with the first shot, the second or third captures the flyer. This cam sure makes the difference when it comes to action.

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J-see

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What appears to work best for these kind of shots is manually processing only the parts requiring attention and leave the rest as is. Here I only did the bird and the two water splashes.

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wornish

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J-see said:
Testing my 70-300mm. She got more reach but should be less sharp than the 200mm. But even 300mm is way too short for this.

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Thats the one downside of FX you need longer lenses or teleconverters to get the same reach as DX. Or you can always use it in DX crop mode but then you lose the pixels.
You seem to be having fun with your new camera though.
 
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