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Another session at Cypress Gardens today. Managed to get in a few shots before the rain set in. Lots of squabbles at and around the feeders.

OK, Woody, against my better judgement, here are some of yesterday's shots.

Thanks, you are in a different class, though.

Well, I now have proof that a Nikon full frame, high resolution camera will inspire fear and awe in the local wildlife.

Well, if you are happy with the 24-70 F2.8, then the obvious answer would be the Z 24-70 F2.8. I have the 24-70 F4, and it's a great lens. It's very sharp, very fast AF and well built. The F 2.8 version should have and edge in AF because of the larger max aperture, and is reputed to be a little...

What were you using before? I've had the Z8 for several months now, and really love it. It is especially good for wildlife. My previous camera, which I still have, was a 7ii. It's a great camera, and if I weren't into wildlife, I think I would be happy with it. It works extremely well for macro...

Well, I was going to post a handful of hummingbird images I took this morning. I fired up this thread and now there's no point! Great stuff!

I don't think those are food parcels. I believe they are nurseries.

And just for comparison, here is another image from the same session when the light was brighter. The clouds thinned a bit for a while, and I was using a lower SS. This one was shot at ISO 2500 and 1/3000 sec. And yes, he's sticking his tongue out at me. I'm beginning to think that some of the...

I've never used PS for denoise operations, and am rather inexperienced in the use of layers, except for specific operations I can't do in LR. I suppose I could process the image in Topaz using different slider inputs, then import the two into PS and try my hand at using layers. I really should...

I used Photo AI and let it do it's thing in RAW Denoise. Like I said earlier, I believe I adjusted sharpness and denoise down just a bit before rendering it. I could edit it again from scratch in LR, but both the background and the bird needed denoise. Also, I don't see an option in Topaz to...

Here are a few from my latest trip. Not much more light than yesterday, but applied a few things I learned from yesterday, and experimented a bit. I really need to get over there, while they are still there, and when there's more light. These high ISOs are killing me.

This is another image that I find something in it that I really like, but it just seems to miss the mark somehow. The story behind this one is that I went back to try my hand at some more hummingbird images. I tried several different exposure settings. This one was the one I bumped up the...

And those 95mm filters are expensive. Don't try and get the cheap ones off Amazon. A friend gave me a set for my 200-500. There was a set of three. They SEVERELY degraded the image quality. I got to looking close at them, and the lens material was plastic. FTR, you can get decent filters on...

Did you get an adapter? The 200-500 is an F mount lens, and needs the FTZ adapter to be able to mount it to your Z camera. I mentioned that in my first post, but didn't emphasize it. The FTZ adapters aren't cheap, but they aren't terribly expensive either. They run about $270 new...

It really depends on what you are going to shoot. If you are interested in macro work, then obviously, something like a 105 macro would be in order. If you are interested in wildlife, then a long tele would be the ticket. You could probably get by with the 24-200 for landscape shooting, although...

You will not gain anything by switching to DX mode with a full frame lens. When you put the camera in DX mode it only uses around half the sensor and limits your images to about 12 MP. You can achieve the same thing by cropping a full frame image in post editing. You may find in post that you...

Went over to Cypress Gardens this morning. I was very disappointed that the field that was covered with dragonflies in late June, was completely devoid of them today. I halfheartedly took a few water lily and wood duck pictures, just because I was there. Got a chance to try my disposable rain...

I have owned the 200-500 F5.6 for several years now. I have found it to be a very good performer. I got mine to use on my new, at the time, Z5. There were no affordable long teles for the Z cameras at the time, so I got this lens and an adapter. It has seen quite a bit of use, and a little...

Beautiful!