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Discovered this little guy in the back yard lurking on a mountain mint plant. It almost looks like pupils in the large central eye pair, but it's just the reflection of my flash diffuser and the lens in the middle mimicking a pupil.

I tried various ISOs in preparation for a talk on hummingbirds. I found that after running it through Topaz, or even using the denoise feature in Lightroom, an ISO 8,000 image was just fine. I even printed a 13x19 print to see if the detail would stand that kind of enlargement. It did. I posted...

It's tough to get them while they're "interacting". I have yet to get them in the same plane of focus. What shutter speed did you use for the "doubles"? I've been finding that I can get by with as little as 1/2000 th, if I have a series where some have the wings at the top or bottom of the...

I rarely shot with Tri-X. Plux-X was my go to, or Ilford HP4. I was not a fan of the grainy look that some photographers seemed to like at the time. Even when I was shooting with medium format, I generally preferred the slower films. Despite all the images I took with film, all the money I...

I shot a lot of T-Max after it came out. The only down side was I don't believe I could get it in 100' rolls. It's been a while ago, so maybe I had given up on bulk loading by then, but I don't remember rolling my own with T-Max. I shot a number of rolls with my dad's Rollie 3.5F after he...

With all the different menus and options on the new cameras, it's very easy to overlook a setting that can wreak havoc on your picture taking.

Venomous snakes, large predatory reptiles, and very annoying insects are just part of life here in this part of the country. Around 7,000 to 8,000 people are bitten by venomous snakes in the US each year. Of those, only about 5 - 10 die. Copperheads account for the most bites, but rattlesnakes...

I think that's called "aging".

My Z8 does my taxes for me. Between this year and next it should save me enough to pay for itself.

Does it have a diopter adjustment for the viewfinder?

I'm sure a lot of Z6iii users have been waiting for this. I know my Z8 didn't focus nearly as well on birds when I accidentally left it in animal detection mode.

Thanks, I tried several angles to get different backgrounds. This one had some blue sky showing through the leaves. This gave it some specular highlights that turned into bokeh balls. I may have tweaked it a little toward the blue in post. He flew off several times while I was shooting. I...

No the copperhead was not in my yard. I didn't smell cucumbers, although I do have a very poor sense of smell. The bug is an ambush bug. Here is a picture of two of them. The male is exhibiting protective behavior. I know, it looks like something else, but it isn't. Fortunately, they are quite...

After my distraction with hummingbirds, I'm back to the dragonflies today. Saw this guy on the end of a crepe myrtle tree branch in my front yard this afternoon, and grabbed the camera.

I can be a bit of a cheapskate, but I try not to skimp on cards. If I do, I skimp on capacity. If I have enough capacity to shoot the most images in a day, even if I have to switch to a second card on rare occasions, I consider this OK. I got a 128 GB card for my Z8 and that's plenty big enough...

I don't do a lot of long exposure shots, but it is something that is a good tool from time to time. The best advice I could give is to explore areas/situations in your area that lend themselves to long exposure shots and take lots of images. Look at them critically to see where improvements can...

Manual focus might be the only other option. Keep in mind this is a still camera with video capability. Quick autofocusing is demanded by still camera users. Here is a short video and explanation from Nikon on the technique. It was made for DSLRs, but the technique is also usable on a...

With the Z8, when you enable pre release capture, it will only go into that mode when you choose JPG 15 fps mode or higher. A pre release icon will appear in the viewfinder and backscreen display. When you are in pre release mode, it will start buffering when you half press the shutter button...