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I shot a lot of pictures. Gotta learn to watch my exposure compensation - sometimes I accidentally change it - the proximity of that button to the shutter is not good. Glad I was shooting RAW and was able to recover usable images from many that appeared too dark or too light. My wife loves...

Every year we celebrate Aboriginal Day in our community - many First Nations, Inuit and Metis people in our area. It is a big deal out our way. The colour and pageantry is grand, and the sounds are haunting. This particular celebration what held on Friday prior to allow school children to...

Vintage, antique, equipment from a by-gone era, call it what you like. Lets see some pictures of old gear. I do not have much of a collection but I'll post what I've got. Simple idea - if it could take a picture (or make a movie) then post it. You can decide how "old" it has to be to be...

OPTIC 2015 Live B&H livestream of Optic 2015 has started. Event runs May 3-4-5 Next best thing to being there. Watching Ralph Lee Hopkins - Great Voyages: Photo Expeditions to the World's Wild Places Wonderful Wildlife Photography most of us can only dream about. I think it is best to...

Sure, if money were no object I'd buy the newest greatest 80-200 VRII Nikkor, but I'm a frugal photographer. VR is nice. But I'm wondering with the high ISO capacity of a D610 does that take a bit of the shine off of the VR halo? VR pretty much doubles the price from 600-800, to $1300-1500...

I have plugged my D610 into the ASUS Transformer Tablet and installed DSLR Dashboard and it works fine tethered - but the tethering cable is shall we say 'sub-optimal'. I've looked at the WB-1B - ($59 on Amazon.ca) Read a review of how "awesome" it is with DSLR Dashboard and wondering if...

Did you get a shot of the blood moon. I managed a to shoot the transition to the Blood Moon, then the moon went down behind the trees. Not thrilled with my moon focusing skills Shot with a vintage Tamron 200-400 F/5.6 on a D610, tripod mounted. ISO some at 1600, some at 2400 F/10 (for most)...

Have some tax money coming back - a little of which will go into my "fun money" account. We are talking a few hundred not thousands. Going to pick up a monopod (started another thread about that - about $100-$150 with head I think). And I'd like to get a new lens. Wish I could afford a 70...

It is becoming obvious that while my vintage Tammy 200-400 F5.6 can be hand held, it is a bit of a beast and it has a tripod mount for a reason. I have a tripod or three I can use, but was thinking I could pick up a mono-pod to use when I take this old long Tammy out for a walk. Looked at a...

Learning more about my 610 and playing around with some of the custom features. I use the My-Menu feature - find it helpful. I'm trying to decide what to do with the FN button on the front - what makes most sense? Using the 'level' horizon button (had to read to figure it out but Ok might...

On Saturday I've volunteered to take Easter Bunny Photo's at a preschool Children's Centre. Pardon my crayola style drawing but I think it gives you the idea. My givens - I have an SB700, Metz 58 AF2 (roughly = an SB900) and a LED Camlight PL-88D which says it puts out 600 Lumens. And the...

The last four of the following macro's were taken of this Olive Tree in my yard. Wonderful winter March morning - love Hoar Frost. First try at macro shots of frost. Be kind.

Is there a L.A. group here for those who are Lens-aholics? Keep wanting more and more lenses in my kit bag (now kit drawer). No I have not master the last lens I bought, or the one before that, nor the one before that. . . . BUT still I keep looking at lenses? I need a 12 step program...

I've watched a few how to youtubes on wildlife photography - mostly about birds. For example:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nDeU3iUIRg Where the photographer sits in a hunter's blind. I can get one at the local Canadian Tire store, sporting goods store or order one like this from Amazon...

Over at "Giveaway of the Day" todays give away is Zoner 16 Pro. Giveaway of the Day - free licensed software daily. Zoner Photo Studio 16 Pro - User-friendly Windows software, whose ?1 advantage is that it brings every feature you need in a single package. This is the company website. The...

Was sorely tempted to bid on a Nikon 100mm F 2.8 MF lens down by dBay today - let it go. It sold for $80 (with 15 minutes to go it was about $50 - always the last few moments that count). Looked at a 200mm "1:4" (not listed by F?). And a 135mm F3.5. All are manual. I found an chart on...

One of my annoying bads is accidentally - unintentionally changing the exposure compensation on my D610. I don't notice the change and then when I look at the images they are terribly under or over exposed. the problem imho is that the button to change exposure is so close to the trigger Is...

Hoping this is one of those 'oldie's but goodies' we will see Just had one chance to run outside and shoot some birds in the backyard quickly. I have to learn to shoot long now. Shot with my D610 - on Christmas Day - bright and sunny. ​

I know my D610 can be put into DX mode but not sure that gives any more reach, it just auto-crops the image so that when shooting with a DX lens you avoid having to crop out the dark vignette or 'port-hole' circle around the photo. Sometimes it is OK to create a round image but usually not...

I wish I could say which one to buy but right now it is just on my wish list but thought I'd see what people think about the various long lens options. First off I know I can spend thousands upon thousands for the super long lens - I don't see me dropping more than a grand or so. Max $1200 I'm...