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Hi Ernie. My TV isn't 'calibrated' the way some serious photo editors calibrate their monitors, but I've played with the sharpness and saturation settings. Perhaps I should calibrate. It would help ...

Hi Hawkeye. I'm VERY familiar with Oleg's Shutter life database.  I think his results are skewed by the tendency for people who have had shutter failures to be attracted to his website, but the ...

Hi Ernie. Thanks. I started using ACDsee a LONG time ago. I'm now using ACDSee Ultimate 10, and I view my images full screen size on a 75 inch 4K TV while I lay in bed and use a cordless trackball ...

Not time lapse.  Just photos of my puppies, and they move so quickly much of the time, that it helps to shoot at 12 fps when they are 'fighting' - and then pick out the in focus and interesting ...

Bullony.  Shutter failures are NOT common for most people.  Nikon shutters are just fine for durability. I've got a D2hs with more than a million shots on it.  The first shutter took 637,000 ...

Curious, because I have gotten 9 fps with the genuine Nikon EN-EL18 battery, and newer versions of that Nikon battery in both the Nikon grip and generics.

Hi Bill. I'm pretty sure it was Thom Hogan in his famous (updated) review of the 200-400 who said the lens was about t5. I've compared the 200-400 and 180-400 side by side, and the front lens ...

I think, if I recall correctly, that the 300mm 2.8 VRI DID have nano coating, but Nikon just didn't slap a N gold badge on the lens, and they didn't market heavily that feature on the first VR ...

Hi T,O. Well - I'm comparing the D850 to my D5 - and I'm just convinced the D850 doesn't track focus as well or as quickly - and few people will appreciate just how hard it is to track focus on a 2 ...

Hi Tony. The 200mm is a focal length I use very rarely, and when I do use it, it's just way too tempting to use it wide open, which yields so few shots in focus - I might end up getting  nose or ...

Did anybody notice he's using the new Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 180-400mm f/4E TC1.4 FL ED VR lens?  (you can see it in the second photo)

If you can live without VR, you might consider the version of the 300mm 2.8 immediately before the VR version: https://kenrockwell.com/nikon/300mm-f28-history.htm I bought the AF-S II D - because ...

Hi Leonard. I probably could have been slightly clearer - but I was trying to say that it made no sense to take the Nikon 180-400 and the Tamron 150-600 (or Sigma 150-600) - because the essentially ...

FuhTeng: "I'll have a 200-400 or this 180-400 AND my Tamron 150-600 G2 for when the light comes up and my target is smaller or farther away." Please excuse my grumpy comment, FuhTeng (I'm very ...

It's kinda funny that the lens hoods for the best Nikon lenses are more expensive than those of the entire lens for some kit lenses. The hood on my 200mm f/2 is a little out of round because some ...

Why are you spreading your ignorance in this forum?  Other than a stupid Nikon 1, have you ever owned and used any decent Nikon equipment? Please stop shooting your mouth off about things you don't ...

Hi Marianne. I'm probably telling you something you already know, but between skaters, your feet will thank you if you can walk during that 'break time' even if it is only 20 seconds.  If you can ...

Yes.  I find it interesting that part of the motivation of some advertisements is to make people feel better about the purchases they have already made.  I don't remember which company - but a car ...

MaxNeko: Dyun is wrong. Sometimes the frame count IS reset to zero when Nikon replaces a shutter, and sometimes it is not. (I've taken about 8 million photos since going digital, and I've broken ...

The 200-400 f4 dropped in price on the used market because of the Canon 200-400 with TC, and the newest 80-400 and the 200-500 f/5.6, and the new tiny 300mm f4 pf, and the improvements in the ...