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I carried a D850 + 200-500 zoom using the PD slide.  No problems.  I attached one anchor to the lens foot and the other to the camera body.

I have the same camera and lens. On mine, the lens will open up to f/2.8 when you focus on something that is more than about two meters away. This is not malfunction.

Those are exquisite!  For what it's worth, you posted them pretty much in my order of preference.  One and two are my favorites.

I generally agree with the previous responses.  I would add one more point.  On a warm summer day in bright sunlight, you will very often get atmospheric heat waves radiating off the pavement, and ...

The length of the PD slings is easily adjusted with one hand, on-the-go,  So you can easily adjust where the camera rests against your torso.  Sometimes when hiking, I shorten the sling and pull ...

I have both the Slide, https://www.peakdesign.com/products/slide#reviews, and the Slide Lite, https://www.peakdesign.com/products/slide-lite. The Slide is a half inch wider and has more padding ...

I definitely prefer a sling strap over a neck strap -- even for a very light camera, and certainly for a full frame DSLR.  It works really well to have the camera hanging to the side or, if you ...

Great shots!  Are these hand-held?

I can relate to their desperation.  I'm clean now, but I still remember hours lost eating Ben and Jerry's straight from the carton -- life with chunky monkey on my back.

I eventually bought this one: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B078NC6QG4/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o06_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 I've been very pleased with it.

I'm glad you posted the link to Roger Cicala's blog discussion of microcontrast. I don't know if his definition of microcontrast is the best or most useful, but at least its clear and consistent. O ...

Here's a link to a good picture of a pewee, showing the yellow-orange lower mandible: https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/28688181

I think the first bird is an eastern phoebe.  The dark bill helps to rule out a pewee.

Here's what I got from ACR and Lightroom.  I only did three things:  Moderate sharpening of the bird, a little noise reduction, and cropped to match your cropping.  One thing seems clear:  You ...

Sharpness in the first one seems fine. But there's something odd visible at 100% crop. I particularly see it in the head and beak. I'm sorry I don't know enough to say what the problem is, but ...

Thanks for the heads-up.

I've traveled a similar path.  I sold the first 24-120 I owned because it was just so soft at 85mm and longer.  I bought the Tamron 24-70 G2, rented the dock, and fine-tuned at the four ...

Within an hour from downtown: Strawberry Plains Audubon Center is a great birding site, especially if you get here in the next 2-3 weeks while migration is happening: http://strawberry.audubon.org ...

Thanks for taking a look. I do see the loss of detail that you and bclaff mentioned. How could I have avoided that at the time I took the shot? Is there a PP solution?

I don't know why the PS and LR histograms are different. I thought it might be because the LR histogram that I posted above was from the raw file. But I downloaded my own jpeg from my OP and ...