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I was in San Clemente/Dana's Point, California this past weekend, and took my D850 and the 28-300mm lens (my travel lens). We took a whale watching boat ride on a particularly small catamaran, and I got this good shot of a paddle boarder very close to a gray whale: I would have preferred a...

Just FYI, I was frustrated last night trying some new lighting set ups and using Live View with focus peaking (which is pretty cool!). First I plugged in an old fashioned sync cord to the D850's connector, but the strobe would not fire. I reckoned the D850 connector must be something new, so...

Wow, I am very tempted by this offer. For the price of a new body, you get a two day lighting course including room and board in Las Vegas. If you don't know who Jerry Ghionis is, check out his lectures on B&H Photo's Youtube channel. I took a full day course with him in North Carolina and it...

Totally off topic from photography, but you Nikonites are very diverse and very helpful and generous with your experiences and advice, so here's my situation: Tonight I took the dogs out late and there was a moderate breeze. The trees in the front yard were rubbing against the power lines and...

I shot a friend's birthday party the other night. The D850 was on a tripod in the "studio" for strobe-lit head and group shots. I used the D800 and a Nikon speedlight for pics around the house. There were a lot of fun shots taken that way, but I was disappointed with overall quality and...

The old rule in the film days was that your shutter speed should be at least the same as your focal length or faster when shooting hand-held. If shooting at 105mm, your shutter speed should be at least 1/125th of a second. When the D800 came out, some reviewers wrote that camera shake was...

Has anyone here tried using the Sigma Art focus fine-tuning USB dock?

On my D600 and D800, lenses needed fine tuning. With the D850, I tried the auto fine-tune feature. It works very fast, but ALL of my lenses are showing ZERO adjustment. That's hard to believe. And yet, I cannot prove that is wrong based on normal testing for back- and front-focusing. Is the...

Just a quick warning if you try to set up your Custom Settings Bank and your Photo Shooting Menu Bank. This was something I had never used on my D800, essentially shooting in bank A all the time. I had my D850 all set up the way I like it, then I created a Custom Settings Bank B and Shooting...

JPEG (cropped) Straight out of the camera, no noise reduction or any other adjustments. I still have not had enough time to experiment thoroughly with the D850 and do side-by-side comparo shots with the D800. Later. I did spend an hour shooting headshots of a friend, but I made a lot of...

I did all the Adobe updates so ACR and PS could read the new D850 RAW files. Usually, a photo opened in the ACR window will look the same once opened in Photoshop. Not the case here! The way a photo looks in ACR is much different than it looks once opened in Photoshop. The problem is that...

I was shooting a bunch of family portraits in the garage studio this weekend in RAW on the D800. I use ACDSee Pro 8 to preview, import, and rate the pictures. The previews of these portraits looked terrific to me and the family as if no post processing was needed, but when I opened the RAW...

I'm trying to be a good guy and buy local, so I called my authorized Nikon camera store here in town. "Can I preorder a Nikon D850 with you guys?" Store: "Well, we'll put your name on an interest list and call you when we get some in. Nobody has really held one of these yet." Me: "Uh...

Benjamin Kanarek – Official Website of Benjamin Kanarek Fashion Beauty and Commercial Photographer This guy posts regularly on dpreview.com and says he uses D800 and D800e. Good work if you can get it...

Someone at Nikon Rumors claims to have confirmation that the new D810 upgrade will be called the D850. https://nikonrumors.com/2017/07/23/confirmed-the-nikon-d810-replacement-will-be-called-nikon-d850.aspx/ I'm hoping the announcement is Tuesday, Nikon's 100th anniversary.

One month from tomorrow, a total eclipse of the sun will pass over a chunk of the USA. I plan to drive a few hours to see it. Anyone planning some special way to shoot it?

Saw this tip somewhere and it works great for easy and precise sharpening: Make a copy of the background layer (CTRL-J). On the new layer, use the High Pass filter. FILTER -> OTHER -> High Pass. You will see a gray screen and an option menu to set the radius for the filter. Set the radius to...

I'm late to the party, having just discovered the Adjustment Brush in Adobe Camera Raw. Before this, I've done the basic slider adjustments in ACR, then done area specific changes in Photoshop with adjustment layers and masks. Does anyone here use the Adjustment Brush in ACR? I've tried to...

The D800 has an SD card slot and a CF card slot. I only own one CF card and use it as back up. Now it is getting full, and I have no way to delete the files on it because there is no CF card reader than I can hook to my computer. (I don't have the right cable to hook the D800 directly to the...

I was in Charleston last weekend for the Volvo Car Open, a professional women's tennis tournament. John McEnroe and Andy Roddick were also there for an exhibition match, though I only got to see them doing a clinic with some local players. The women players on this opening weekend were not the...