PatMann

Camera is listed, but I'd never keep mine in my camera bag. How can you take pictures if your camera is in a bag?

I agree that the softness at 1:1 viewing does not have the artifacts that indicate subject or camera motion to me. I suspect that AF is off slightly, or that some atmospheric turbulence is to...

The highlights are clearly blown in the shot presented here, at least 1 1/3 or perhaps 2 stops as stated by the commenter. This is a difficult call in shooting birds - those white feathers are very...

I would definitely do the 35mm rather than the 50mm to supplement the 105. The 35mm at 50mm-equivalent is still a relatively narrow field for a general-purpose lens, hard to get groups and context...

A 70-200 f/2.8 equivalent for DX is a 47-135mm f/2.8 lens. It's not likely that this lens would be as large, as heavy or as expensive as the 70-200 f/2.8 zoom for FX. The 17-55 DX zoom is as close...

You misread my intent - I wasn't asking for a 70-200 DX lens. I was asking for a DX lens that is the equivalent of this very useful standard FX range of view angle, but for DX format - a 50-135 or...

The only compact zoom I would consider as one to shoot your band photo is the 18-35 AF-S. I think your 50 would be fine, but something wider will allow you to play with more angles and work the...

You can see distortion figures for both lenses at photozone.de. The 10-24 distorts at the wide end much more than the 12-24, but then it's significantly wider than the 12-24 at the wide end - I'd...

The following basic pro lenses (the non-PC primes here have had close equivalents available in all leading full frame camera systems for more than 20 years) don't have equivalents designed for the...

Lenses are usually designed with as close as possible to a flat field of sharp focus, though many lenses do not have a flat field of focus particularly near the edges. A flat field means that the...

The 12-24 is not an internal zoom, but the zooming part of the lens moves within an external shell that has the filter thread and hood bayonet. That sounds like what you are describing with the...

Focusing back and forth from 10 to 30 feet in indoor lighting giving f/2.8 at 1/30 second at 800 ISO on my D300s, I estimated that the 85 f/1.8G takes 0.5 to 0.75 seconds to refocus on...

Condensation normally would occur only on the outside surface of the front or rear, resulting when you take a cold lens from an air-conditioned interior into a warm outdoor space, or take a cold...

The 70-300 is a very good value for the money, but in use it's no comparison with the 70-200 AF-S zooms for ultimate image sharpness and contrast, subject isolation, or AF responsiveness. Im...

Those zooms are very big, unsubtle lenses for street candids. If you're looking for more focal length, I'd go for 85mm or 105mm. I'm generally shooting at a higher shutter speed than one that...

Consider 1. TC20eIII for your 200mm as a test for the focal length you ultimately will want for birding. This won't compare for fine detail with the 400 f/2.8 but will give you an idea of what this...

I don't find the overlap objectionable - it just means needing to change lenses less often, which means less sensor cleaning. A big plus for the 16-85 is that I can feel better about leaving the...

At 200k dots, wouldn't expect much.

Unless my vacation is specifically for birding, in which case I'm taking a whole bunch of extra heavy bulky gear anyway, I find I almost never have a use for a lens longer than about 105mm (full...

Yeah, when I can get an equivalent for my D300 for only $2,000, that weighs a 1.4 pounds, and uses 77mm filters, why would I look to Fujifilm for an APS-C system with a 35-equivalent f/1.4 given...