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We are visiting Monterey in a few weeks and plan to take a whale watching trip to see humpbacks. Has anybody done a similar trip and if so what lenses did you use? I'm thinking 70-200 on the 7100 for reach and 24-120 on the 800 if they come close. Any other tips for shooting whales. Sent from...

No problem, the questions just seemed out of the norm. Now you've mentioned which flash @WayneF may be able to shed some light on it so to speak. I'm not familiar with that model. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk HD

I picked one of these up yesterday for use on a D7100 and noticed two issues. It appears to force the image review timer to be 1 minute. It also changes the image review to function differently. If you have it set to press the OK key to zoom in, it no longer scrolls around by holding the rocker...

Having been a big fan of the 18-200 for many years my better half has recently started saying how much better the images from her 35mm 1.8g and 70-200 2.8 are by comparison. Specifically the sharpness. If the light is bright I find the 18-200 does a great job for such a versatile lens, but it...

We are travelling to the US in just under three weeks visiting Salt Lake City, Bryce Canyon, Vegas, Death Valley, Yosemite, Monterey and San Francisco. Unfortunately I'm still pondering what to take. My paranoia even starts with my bag which is a Lowepro Vertex AW300 rucksack which I purchased...

I was just looking at a yet another post (Not on this forum obviously) where somebody was complaining about the weight of their gear. This guy had a D7000 plus 18-105, 70-210F4, 35 1.8 and 50 1.8 lenses. The 7000, 7100 and 610 bodies are hardly heavy given the level of performance they offer and...

Nice work @BackdoorHippie and a great explanation of the technique. The other day I had a similar experience where I took a picture with a purpose in mind (A competition themed "Red") and because I decided to do a longish exposure to create blur I completely overexposed it. It was actually...

A common thing I see written about the D800 or even the D7100 for that matter is "what's the point in all those pixels". In truth I very rarely need them myself as I don't print big, however they are very useful to me for the following reasons. If I ever do manage to take a great image and...

Thanks for all the replies and kind words confirming that I'm not going mad and not seeing what everybody else does. Thanks @BackdoorHippie for the more detailed inspection that I value and now expect from you :) This was actually a single image HDR which is mainly a testament to the sensor on...

I submitted this image to an online competition recently and one of the comments was "your sensor needs a good clean". Having looked again I can see a spot on the left hand side but apart from that it looks pretty clean to my eyes. This is also a much higher resolution image than the one being...

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Coming from the D70 and then D300s cameras I've historically viewed anything above ISO 1600 ans something only suitable for the brave. When I got the D800 and D7100 bodies I started to realise that the sensor technology had moved along such that 6400 was very useable, certainly on the D800, with...

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Here is my take on it. I took these when we decorated to email to my wife so they are really snap shots. I had the Tokina 11-16 available to me but chose to use her 10.5mm fisheye. The Tokina is very good but just not this wide. With the 10.5mm fisheye you can stand in the corner of a room and...

I currently have the full creative cloud but I reckon I really only need the Photoshop/Lightroom version. I currently have the cloud through the education program so I only pay half price and the access it gives is great if you need it, I just think I could save £15 per month if I take the other...

I was out for a walk last night and snapped this Robin. It was too far away and I think I needed more the 1/1000 for handheld at that distance, however I decided to have a little play with it in Photoshop CC. Now this picture will never win any competitions so please don't judge me by it, but I...

My wife and I each have a PC with Lightroom 5.x and Photoshop CC installed. Mine has 8GB and hers has 4GB. She has been complaining that Photoshop has been running slowly, especially running Nik plugins (60+ secs to load). I went through a process of ripping all the junk off the PC to make the...

If you really need one of these to stop you breaking your camera you really should take up another hobby. See the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=UUNjL-dOaBmfnwaXoGCLe_UQ&v=4jtsepK_vew&feature=player_em bedded.