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Are you looking for a small, light travel tripod, or a larger, heavier more sturdy model? I see travel in the title, but nothing in the text. In general, middle of the road is the best course. Don't go too cheap, and don't spend a bundle on a big name.

Another trip to Cypress for the hummingbirds. I had full sun today, however, There were unpredictable areas of shade and partial shade, and shaded subject with full sun background etc. Made for some real challenges in shooting and editing. I think the best situation there is light overcast. I...

In general, image quality goes down when the zoom ratio increases. Of course a lot depends on the quality of the lens. I will say that, in general, the Z mount lenses are better optically than the F mount lenses. Some of that is due to progress in the design and manufacturing process of lenses...

Walked out in the backyard after the rain stopped today. Nice soft light. Thought I'd try my hand at some available light macro shots. Lots of throw aways due to motion blur. I was shooting handheld, and trying to keep the ISOs down. Shot around 180th of a sec for most. of them. Even at F/11...

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...