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Dummy the Woodpecker has come back to me this year. I have to do something about the gap in the tops of my porch windows. Of course I made him pose for photos before I opened the door and shooed him outside.

The Pope was in town and the bishop and a priest took him to their favorite fishing spot. The 3 got in a small boat and rowed it to the middle of the lake. Right after dropping the anchor the priest cries out "Dear God, I left my tackle box behind!" He lept out of the boat, dashed across the...

I should elaborate on my issues with the SNAP port. I believe Skywatcher just had in mind to get it to fire Canon DSLRs and assumed it would be fine with others. For the 60 second exposure time the circuit has to hold a switch (or more likely a transistor) closed for 60 seconds. If it is...

You raise a point I forgot. His lens may have fogged up. It kind of fits the circumstances. I use a USB-powered lens-wrap anti-dew heater for those early morning sessions. Again, a cheap item to buy off Amazon...

I do not think your D7000 is to blame. Until 5 years ago I was using a D7000 and Sigma 150-600mm lens for my astro work. I do not have a Star Adventurer 2i. I use Skywatcher's AZ-GTi and that uses the SynScan app to control it. Is that used with the Star Adventurer 2? I don't actually know. But...

If you would be open to used gear, Nikon SB-600 speedlights regularly are priced $60-$80 these days at camera stores that take trade-ins. I had to pay $260 for mine when it was new. SB-800's are out there also but get priced twice as much. If you only are wanting a single speed light in the...

I think of bracketing as fail-safe for certain situations with varying light conditions. Think like the eclipse last April. I bracketed all the shots because there was no do-over and time was far too limited. Each photo was a 5-shot burst with bracketing. But that leads to my issue with...

You are getting there! Yes, use the soft-box and even place the lens directly on it pointing down. Should give uniform and consistent light that way so you could automate the post processing a bit. Color is looking a bit flat, but understand it could be accurate due to the nature of military...

If my current telescope mount were to take a bullet to save my life, I think I would look to the Star Adventurer GTi now. This version was introduced after I bought the AZ-GTi. The payload was bumped up by 1KG and they added the WiFi feature to make it a go-to mount now.

I almost forgot I bookmarked this older product. Guy in the UK makes them. Less expensive but you have to supply your own light source. That is a bigger trick to keep the color temp uniform from batch to batch than most people would expect. https://clifforth.co.uk/#BUY

I have been so close to buying one of these a couple of times this past year. I kind of want something I can do Kodak 110 and 620 film negatives on also. Those would be my childhood cameras and I still have a stack of negatives around. https://www.valoi.co/easy35

I use a Sky-Watcher AZ-GTi. There has been a newer generation available for the past couple of years now. I bought mine nearly 5 years ago. The AZ-GTi specifically is the wrong kind of telescope mount to use for astrophotography. As designed, it works as an Alt-Az mount for a telescope and does...

Lake Geneva, WI on the 1st day of the month. D600 IR conversion, 28-105mm f/3.5-4.5, A-mode f/10. 8 images shot portrait mode. Stitched with Hugin.

Honestly, I used P mode mostly with my D80 for about 3 years. I figured if the auto exposure worked, why force things? I eventually evolved to A and S modes, but full manual is only if they won't do the job I ask.

That is half the going prices of 3 years ago. The supply continues to lag behind demand, but I think the Zf is changing that.

It will take photos with a FTZ adapter. But it has no autofocus motor so you would have to manual focus everything. That is going to be the case with any D series lens. They rely on an autofocus motor inside a camera body. I have once read about a Chinese brand making an adapter with an AF...

About your daughter relying on P-mode: I do not see switching to tactile dials as a way to change that. It is the fact that the Auto and P-mode exists that it is used. A DF still has those. I only see the Df as a secondary body to use. The feature set is a serious downgrade from a D750 or D780...

Summing things up, only you would be able to answer that question. Here's a link to the review at a lens review site I regularly use. https://www.imaging-resource.com/lenses/nikon/18-300mm-f3.5-5.6g-ed-vr-dx-af-s-nikkor/review/ I have not used the lens, no personal experience. But the link...

Appears the forum had to compress the file a lot. It is much sharper on my PC. I could share from imgur but that site compresses also. Link to the clearer image shared on Google photos: https://photos.app.goo.gl/d4EUwzcpGjHEht4GA Lake Geneva in Wisconsin is obviously named after the more...

From the same Aug 1 photoshoot, this is a pano series I shot angled upward a bit and and also stitched from 15 exposures. This one was assembled by AutoStitch which I think is doing a nicer job with the blending. I desaturated the original infrared images to B/W before stitching. Lake Geneva...