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Eric wrote:
Robert wrote:
Mmmm... What lens Eric?
Only got one Robert
D500+300mm+1.4xtc.
1/1000th@f9 in M mode and auto ISO...c. 4500iso
Awww!
Send me your postal I will pop my fisheye in the post to widen your horizons!
That's very generous of you Robert.
I am lying really ...as I have got a 16-85 DX lens as well.
But I am taking this re-equipping sloooowly.
I am happy the D500 with the 300mm and tc works for larger birds or closer positions. I see no point in going to the D850 just for this application, as I would have a heavier, more expensive camera that has bigger files and, as yet not proved to me that cropping its images to the DX size frame produces better images than the D500 out of the camera. But am prepared to be proven wrong.
So my next birding purchase may be the 500mm P lens ...when it's available.
That leaves the desire for an FX body for all other photography to be satiated. This COULD BE a Z camera. But it would need to be less frustrating in use and performance than other mirrorless bodies I've tried.
If my cropping scepticism is proved wrong then a D850 MAYBE the obvious body to filfil both my uses.
But then I have the issue of immediacy (mentioned on Z thread)....
I don't want to be swopping wide angle and tele lenses in the field. So two bodies with the right lenses, is the answer....that ain't going to be two D850s!!
I could suppress the FX urge and simply use the LUMIX FZ2000 for wide angle plus at a fraction of the price......in fact if I borrow Jan's, it's FREE.
Last edited on Tue Sep 18th, 2018 04:35 by Eric
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