just Tony

I like that idea. The lighting needs other work as well. I really like the spectrum of this lamp (I got it for print viewing). But it's a linear stick so you might say that those shadows have ...

Z7, 24-70S at f/5.6, focus stack

After all you can't take a picture of anything at all if the camera does not have power. :-)

After my mother passed away I took custody of her film camera which had a roll inside that was halfway shot. It then spent many years in boxed up neglect; my bad. When I finally got around to ...

The rear display was continuously active throughout the handheld use, foot attachment, and re-pointing. Always a valid concern of course, but the steady oscillation was more consistent with a ...

This would help: (1) I gave detailed observations about the phenomenon (2) I went on to present a plausible explanation of what was going on

What do you mean? Read my post again.

Certainly the 5.6 and 4 are very different animals. The 4 isn't as agile to handle, and the 5.6 isn't as ready for dim light situations. The f/4 has a reputation for faster focus action. Different ...

That's much, much better than not being able to get to 1.2 so it could be a mechanical tolerance consideration. And of course you can't open the lens any wider than all the way open. At 1.2 the ...

Your gear list says that you already have a D800. Adding in what you wrote above it sounds like you may already have your answer.

While I owned a D700 I also rented a D800 for evaluation. In night time scenes with side by side shooting, ISO 3200 images from the D800 looked very similar to ISO 1600 images from the D700, when ...

This was a weird one. I was doing some handheld shooting with the combo described above when I switched over to tripod use. I hadn't yet gotten around to switching off the VR control on the lens. T ...

Z7, 300/2.8

Not strictly correct, because the triggering does work via indirect reflected pathways. I often bounce the commander unit off the ceiling. But of course that is a further restriction of possible ...

Nikon's compatible optical commander units are: SU-800, SB-910, SB-900, SB-800, SB-700, SB-500 and SB-5000. You could trigger your SB-300 with your SB-700 but not the other way around. From what I ...

You're preaching to the choir about nozzle checks. And any time the printer decides to stir the ink is fine with me, I never need to tell it to.

My assumption is that it's just stirring the inks in the cartridges by cycling the pressure that's applied outside the bladders. It's a totally different sound and time-to-completion vs running a ...

Min has a great fit and feel in the forward direction, the same every time, but is variable in the reversed, storing position. A few times it became easy when I pushed backwards on the hood right ...

I'm not worried about breaking the hood. I'm worried about breaking the lens!  :-) The hoods for all of my F mount lenses come on and off too easily. I guess as i buy more Z lenses I'll arrive at a ...