The Knuck Duster

Welcome to the real world--a world where wild owls are baited with mice and Cecil the lions are shot for sport! Wildlife photogs and their allegedly "unethical" harmless practices should be way ...

With photo clubs, beware of regression to the mean!

Agreed 100% Wildlife photography is a competitive space. Peanut butter, bait, chum-feeding, predator-prey calls--everything is pretty much fair game!

Wrong. "Wildlife" is the native fauna of a region. Tameness is irrelevant.

Ah, that explains it. ;) I wonder if he also defends the Nikon 50mm lenses as "outresolving" the D850 sensor--when not even Nikon does!

Agreed! Nikon's suboptimal LVAF is a point of difference (POD) that competitors can exploit as a key differentiator. That's just what Sony has done in positioning itself as better than the ...

Not at all. The animals didn't give chase because the humans stood their ground. People who retreat "train" animals to chase them. This is why you never run from a wolf. It's classical and operant ...

The plain truth of the matter is that not even Nikon agrees with the most diehard of its fanbase anymore. Some of the fanboys have long railed against mirrorless, for instance, whereas many signs ...

Strong words! Hell hath no fury like a fanboy miffed?

And, having conducted an exhaustive review of the literature, he is well within his rights to do so. Researchers do it all the time--whether in the form of a meta-analysis or compilation of case ...

Thanks for sharing this! I am amazed at how much noisier the D850 image looks!

It may be much faster, proportionately, but it is still slow in absolute terms--as is the consensus on much of the Internet. Imaging Resource, for one, had this to say: " given the D850's ...

That's not Google Earth. That's google maps. THIS is Google Earth: Let's see your images of the Mumbai CST airport as good as these:

You've been ignored and disrespected by Nikon support. They are a product-centric company, not a customer-centric one, so this comes as no surprise. It is time to teach them about Brehm's theory ...

In what way is it a big improvement?

Wrong. Fortune favors the brave. Those photogs bagged the shot...and lived to tell about it--one-upping the meek critics who could only marvel at their exploits from a distance.

You say it best, Griddi!!! Yes, the memories matter most.

He IS informed now. It's called experiential learning. Look it up. An unsubstantiated overgeneralization to which the OP himself serves as a potent counterexample.

Exactly, Vaughan. Nikon's LV AF is lamentably subpar. I mean, even cellphones have markedly superior focusing than that--which would come as a surprise not just to the millennial generation raised ...

Right, and vaughanB is doing the informing .