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I shot with the SD only in the D500 until my XQD arrived a week or two later. I have the "Extreme Pro" 95mph SD and the 400mph XQD. I expected to be blown away by the difference in file transfers - not so much. I didn't measure it but it both were 'fast enough' that I didn't have time to...

These are swift birds - this one done at 1/6400. I have pushed the ISO but very high (over 3000 IMHO) is OK if you don't crop-a-lot. But if you are shooting small birds and the final image is 1/20th of the full frame or less, then the high iso grain will show. Or at least it does for me...

Here is one of my D500 BIF efforts I found Mark Smith's Youtubes about the D500 shooting BIF to be helpful. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o_Btv8sDMk Speed is key - at least 1,000 but faster is better - depending on the speed of the bird. This black tern was a serious challenge for me...

Well for 'fun' I just finished auto fine-tuning all my AF lenses. I have Nikon, Tamron, Tokina and Sigma and they all were fine tuned - how fine that tuning was is really hard to judge. This was the set up I chose - used the lid of my 'new' antique Kodak 1940's camera for a target - lots of...

Look Ma - I'm a stilt walker

Update to my XQD purchase post Tried it out - works fine. Really didn't notice the difference between a good SD card and this super fast card - but I didn't measure it. Only openned 484 RAW shots so maybe not a fair test and no stopwatch was used. But it works fine, and fast. Now I have...

Time to post something here now that I'm shooting with my D500 Took my new baby out to the Native Cultural Dancers at our Aboriginal Day Celebrations. Lots of colour. BUT they were in a big white tent (think wedding tent) and it was overcast with moments of sunlight. I had my Godox V860 and...

Look what the post office had for me today. Plugged it into my D500 - will put some images on it tonight and see if it is any better than a good SD card. Had to look hard to get a faster one with an adaptor. I could have picked up the next generation XQD for $30 less and get an increased...

A Gackle imho

Water's a bit rough on Jesse Lake today - it is very small lake or a big pond. This is a birder's trail, one of the birding towers is just over the bridge.

Evening Scent or so the greenthumb of the house says. Apparently it has a nice fragrance as sundown.

My dearly beloved gave me her belated Father's Day present. A "Kodak Vigilant Junior Six-20" - a bellows style camera, which I learned was only made between 1940 and 1948. Mine was Made in Canada - in Toronto according to the box. It did come with the original manual - which is a real...

My first shot of a Raven