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Can't help with Wrangell-St Elias - haven't been there (YET!). Fairbanks has a suburb called North Pole, which (as you might guess) is decorated for Christmas all year round. There is a rather ...

I haven't owned or even tried the 100-400, and I've only handled a 200-500 once at a Nikon demo. With my setup, I have available 3 choices that give me satisfactory sharpness wide open: a 300 f4, a ...

Generic answer - yes, the Nikon 300 will be excellent. But you need to be careful to get the one that does what you want for a price you like. Nikon has produced 3 versions of the 300 f4 lens. The ...

Your weather looks like the weather I had. And that almost everyone else had - just a fact of life for coastal Alaska. I like all of them. I agree about #1 being a candidate for adjustment. I used ...

Kent - General comment on all of them - nice color, sharp images, and a good sense of place. Specific comments - #1 - this image has a rotation and a perspective distortion. I rotated the image 1 ...

That's going to print very nicely, no matter what size you finally choose. I do the same thing as ImNotDedYet - I printed this to fit on 12X36" paper and bought a frame in a local art supply store. ...

Thanks for reminding me of what I love about Stephens Channel. Great shots.

First, the image quality could be better judged in this forum if you post the full 4.6 mp jpg. But I suggest re-doing the stitching. I have what I believe is the same ARCsoft program, and I agree ...

I'll expand on cosmicnode's post: 200-500 Virtues versatility of a zoom constant wide open aperture (no need to rethink exposure settings while zooming) very good, modern VR good optics 200-500 ...

First, don't pin your plans on a lens that does not yet exist - there's no telling when (or even if) Nikon may actually put the 500 PF on retailers' shelves. Second, if it works, don't fix it. You ...

What do you expect to do with the images you bring home? It makes a serious difference whether you plan to show them to friends in small images onscreen or mount large prints in your home. I can't ...

Nikon has made 3 versions of the 300 f4. The original, the AF model, is all metal and glass - no plastic. So it has the reputation of being built like a tank and almost as heavy. The second ...

Let me rephrase my statement: I am confident that it would do poorly IN MY HANDS compared to more modern lenses. I let my own limitations get into what I said without explaining that. I have lots ...

Nikon has made 3 versions of the 300 f4 autofocus lens. The latest is the PF model. The first one carries the designation AF, not AF-S. It is larger and heavier than the AF-S version, with the ...

Part of this problematic situation is the possibility that the lens might not be repairable. There are parts in the 300 D lens that are no longer available - the reality of an old lens. Checking ...

You have everything you need to find out if f4 will be adequate - put on a lens, set it to f4, and find a local baseball game under the lights and shoot. Can you get a shutter speed that can stop ...

I got the email this morning about the Aug 23 announcement. I am perplexed as to why a company thinks it worthwhile to put out an announcement telling the world they don't have anything to say ...

The first image is an excellent example of capturing a sense of place in a photo. Shooting at sunrise or sunset might capture more interesting lighting, but frequently fails to capture a sense of ...

Ansel Adams spent an enormous amount of time testing and learning the characteristics of the various films available at the time, as processed in the developers available at the time, with a wide ...

You've done a lot of homework, but I suggest you aren't quite done. The controls on the D5500 and D7100 have significant differences - the way you go about changing aperture and shutter settings, ...