dramtastic
Senior Member
Depends where you live. Can be had for about 700 bucks in Australia.
My bird shots are just horrible! I need some help!
- Thread starter Mike D90
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I doubt I'm smart enough to figure that out! Lol But I think it's great! I'm one of the people that think that Nikon should put out a pro DX! I think it would be popular! 
It is interesting as I would think that eventually DX format would kind of go away. Unless there is a way to make the DX sensor a lot better.
Compare the D90 to the D7100.
I was thinking of that as I typed this. Still, how much room for improvement is there on that small sensor? Hopefully a lot. Who knows?
dramtastic
Senior Member
You'd more likely see FX dumped before you saw DX. The vast majority of sales are DX bodies. Down the track when there is larger range of lenses for mirrorless bodies, they may take over the majority of sales.
DX bodies apart from having a cropped sensor have features as advanced and some times more advanced than FX bodies from 5-6 years ago at a far more affordable price than a new FX. I can only say for my purposes, mainly shooting wildlife, a DX sensor is a better option and that is the same for many a wildlife Pro shooter.
Wow, I am loving the LightRoom!
I was going to toss this image in the trash can. LightRoom transformed this photo completely. Not the best I could do but now it is useable. Actually I don't think it is that bad now!
This image was terribly fuzzy at the edges where it needed to be sharp. There was a lot of high ISO noise to the background and the water had no clarity at all.
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I was going to toss this image in the trash can. LightRoom transformed this photo completely. Not the best I could do but now it is useable. Actually I don't think it is that bad now!
This image was terribly fuzzy at the edges where it needed to be sharp. There was a lot of high ISO noise to the background and the water had no clarity at all.
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Scott Murray
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You could even try reducing the highlights and see how that turns out ;-)
I wanted to do that as well but in LightRoom I don't know which setting affects highlights directly. Got some learning to do with that software.
Scott Murray
Senior Member
It should be the highlights slider ;-) Lightroom Tutorial: Identify Blown Out Highlights in Your Photo
I have not seen that in my version. I had to go back to LR 3.6 to run on XP 32bit. I will check that tutorial anyway!
EDIT: In my version it is the "Recovery" slider.
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dramtastic
Senior Member
Beautiful capture Mike and nicely processed. We need a thumbs up icon.
pictaker64
Senior Member
awesome shot!!! looks like you are on your way now...Thanks for sharing...love it
Very cool my friend! Great catch Mike!
That Steve Guy
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Cardinals love cracked corn. We feed our chickens cracked corn and the cardinals clean up what is left. They are plump, slow moving, and always hang around for a feeding when the humans come out. Even have cardinals that roost inside the chicken coop.
Very cool my friend! Great catch Mike!
Thank you all! Brian, what amazed me was I needed almost no processing. All I did was a little exposure adjustment, some saturation adjustment to kill some of the ugly winter grass color and a crop. I didn't have to sharpen at all and no noise reduction.
What I did today was find that sweet spot you been telling me was there. I got a good bit closer and backed off the zoom a little to about 280mm instead of 300mm, I kept my aperture at or above f/8 and a fast shutter above 1/1000th. ISO never dropped below 800 and was usually lower. Also by getting close it changed the angle the light was hitting the bird and the shadows were just nearly perfect.