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Well, there's something badly wrong with my back up camera. No, not the one in the car, the one in my camera bag. I needed a shot of me for the CNPA newsletter, so I set up my primary camera as a prop, and used my back camera with the timer to get a shot. The problem? All the shots ended with...

Maybe play reruns of Tom and Jerry in the window overlooking the yard.

Try it with a tripod, and pay close attention to your focus, although I suspect camera movement is your main culprit here. With a tripod and proper shutter etiquette, you can lower your ISO to 100, or even 64, which will help slightly in resolution. You are working with a 46 MP sensor, so you...

Here's a shot of the moon using my 180-600 at 600mm on a full frame sensor.

Went back to Magnolia this morning. Had a good time, but not as productive as Thursday.

Had a visitor to my wildflower plot in the backyard this afternoon. He seemed upset that I took his picture.

Yep.

The rule of thumb is that in order to bring a non macro lens to 1:1 magnification, use extension tubes that equal the focal length of the lens. In the case you referenced, a 35mm lens will require 35mm of extension, based on the rule of thumb. To get 1:1 with my 180-600 at the longer end would...

And an afterthought. I removed only that little bit of reed near the bird's head. I feel that this improves the image overall.

I tried a whole series of density for the vignette, and settled on this. I could remove the reed in front of the bird, but then he would awkwardly be hanging in mid air. I could have shot this from the other side of the reed, but this would have necessitated me wading out into the pond, which...

Well, I did change the temperature of the radial gradient, although not drastically. I tried taking it through to very blue, and the other way to extremely warm. Obviously, this is a matter of personal taste, but this seemed the best to me at the time. I may revisit it. I also felt this might...

I decided to try something a little outside my normal comfort zone. I shot this image of (I believe) a female redwing blackbird. I decided to do something a little creative with the background. Basically it's just an inverted radial gradient that I flattened, feathered out and adjusted the...

Had a decent day at Magnolia. It was supposed to rain, but didn't. I was hoping for some birds in the rain shots. The appearance of several roseate spoonbills has all the photographers a twitter. I got a couple shots of them.

Ironically, overhead lines are much cheaper to install than underground. They are, however, much less likely to need repair from weather and events such as this.

I forgot the most important detail. My Z8 and 180-600 only seems to have suffered a couple minor scratches on the lens hood. :)

The Z7ii makes an excellent landscape camera. The autofocus may hold you back if you are doing wildlife, especially moving wildlife, but is more than adequate for stationary subjects. One advantage is that it has a 46 MP sensor, this will allow you to crop significantly, or print large prints...

I went with the magnetic option a year or two back. I found that with the K&F filters I bought, that a set with the filter, adapter and cap were not that much more than the filter alone. I hate trying to thread filters in the field, and do a lot of installing and removing the filter on occasions...

Well, we had already used one of the Pup's passes at the zoo for the day, and driven an hour and a half to get there. Also, the Pup can't tolerate heat well, so this was likely her last chance at an outing til Sep or Oct. It wasn't too bad after the finger went back in place, so we decided to...