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  1. Fred Kingston_RIP

    Cause(s) of soft images

    Were you seeing this on Jpeg files or Raw (NEF) files...
  2. Fred Kingston_RIP

    Post your Train shots!

    I would imaging their flashing left/right signifies looking both ways???? and I would expect to see the train flashing when a train was coming...
  3. Fred Kingston_RIP

    Cause(s) of soft images

    You won't see it on your computer unless you use Nikon's software...
  4. Fred Kingston_RIP

    Woody's Vea La Luz 2023

    Great images of an incredible bird @Woodyg3
  5. Fred Kingston_RIP

    Cause(s) of soft images

    You might want to review Steve Perry's excellent videos and eBooks on the Nikon focus systems, and their intended purposes... I just saw an email where he updated something in the Z systems recommendations...Regardless of which "auto-focus" system you use, you need to really calibrate the lens...
  6. Fred Kingston_RIP

    Fungi?

    I would say Yes... Mold grows in moisture... If the lens allowed moisture in once, it most certainly would allow it a second, third etc time... Think of mold as a living thing... once the seed has "propagated" as it were, all it needs is moisture to continue... Depending on value, a lens can be...
  7. Fred Kingston_RIP

    Fungi?

    Fungi is an indication that a lens has "inhaled" moisture... That lens is not weather sealed, so is susceptible to "moisture"... If you can, I'd return it while/if you can...
  8. Fred Kingston_RIP

    Cropping feedback

    There are two issues... One is, if you crop to focus on the subject, with that image...you're cropping pretty heavily... and the second is the depth of field for that image is too short... so when you do crop very much that out-of-focus branch to the right becomes reeeally out-of-focus in...
  9. Fred Kingston_RIP

    Cause(s) of soft images

    Google "lens calibration"... Basically... cameras and lenses are manufactured to within specific tolerances...with a plus or minus percentage for error...the theory being that when combined, the error tolerances cancel each other out giving a perfect calibration... REALITY deviates from...
  10. Fred Kingston_RIP

    Post your latest purchases.

    And sadly, you have to wonder what happens to that camera now... Does Nikon recycle it back through their Refurb system until someone isn't smart enough to look at the shutter count????
  11. Fred Kingston_RIP

    Unclaimed Property

    Every State has their own "abandoned property" which you can search for and rightfully claim...for free... There are web site aggregators similar to the one above, that scab off the State's websites, and for a "fee" and with your consent, will claim those assets. They'll send you all the...
  12. Fred Kingston_RIP

    SOLVED Nikon D70 and Tamron 171D 28-200mm lens - no auto focus.

    I provided the link not as a solution, in this instance, but to illustrate that that lens and body combination were exhibiting the same issues almost 20 years ago... and indications are pretty good that your "fix" MIGHT be fleeting unless you know exactly what it was that you did to "fix" it...
  13. Fred Kingston_RIP

    SOLVED Nikon D70 and Tamron 171D 28-200mm lens - no auto focus.

    Here's a link to a conversation about that lens and combo from almost 2 decades ago...
  14. Fred Kingston_RIP

    Woody's Vea La Luz 2023

    WOW!!! Great images @Woodyg3
  15. Fred Kingston_RIP

    New Forum

    I see the same Olive/yellow/grey/blue colors as everyone. I like it...
  16. Fred Kingston_RIP

    New Forum

    Seriously???????
  17. Fred Kingston_RIP

    Replace my D7100 with an D810

    The fastest cards supported are UDMA-7 CompactFlash which allows transfer rates up to 145 MB/second, however the fastest tested cards yield ~100MB/s write speed in the D810. I use a SanDisk Extreme Pro 64G 160MB/s card. It is a UDMA-7 card... And a SanDisk 64G 120MB/s Class 10 SD card... I've...
  18. Fred Kingston_RIP

    Replace my D7100 with an D810

    Yes, I do... Basically, I have dozens of SD 64G SD cards... but the CF card in my D810 is faster, so I set it as the primary card, and the SD cards as secondary backup... So stuff goes to the CF card first, fast... then the SD card... I always pull the SD card for file transfers to my computer...
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