Mike H

Chances are the vulture didnt try to fly until it dried out. Often they dont fly until later in the morning if it rained or was even a heavy dew over night.

A few control points adjusting brightness and contrast

All my lenses tested out right on the money, no focus adjustment necessary. Battery lasts for 1200 to 1500+ shots with varying amounts of chimping. Only complaint is I wish it had a built in flash.

I have it and its ok on focus speed. I use mine as a travel lens on cruises. Its worth the money considering the size, cost, rotating barrel and aperture. Its sharper and just as quick focusing ...

The 500 is noticeably quieter than the 300.

Nikkor 80-200 AF cry, and I cant stand to hear an old faithful lens cry

using SanDisk extreme pro 32 gig and PNY Elite Performance 64 gig SDHC cards here never a problem with either one.

shot over 700 frames in 20 min. At 10 fps I got stuff I wouldn't have gotten at 8, but of course Ive had to delete over 450 frames so far :-D

Test it yourself look into the lens and take a series of photos watching if the diaphragm stops down consistently or not at all.

from my cold dead hands and/or computer when its upgraded to where I cant run that older software any more. Its just too easy and too successful to not use it I was just PP some photos taken on my ...

Thats what I do, convert to TIFF and finish in NX2, now and then a bit of PS E. The only thing I dislike about the process is the TIFF's are huge. PS I havent been able to get the above mentioned ...

https://www.keh.com/shop/nikon-80-200mm-f-2-8-macro-ed-autofocus-lens-77.html Maybe pick up a 80-200 f2.8 like this for a while, until the budget recovers. Im still using one I bought in the 90's ...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Modified-Nikon-TC-16A-for-D300-D610-D750-D800-D7200-Df-D3-D3s-D4-MF-to-semi-AF/331837454720?_trksid=p2047675.c100011.m1850&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIC.MBE%26ao%3D I ...

You did quite well considering it was cloudy most of the day, hazy all day and planes were back lighted most of the day. It was also crowded and expensive. All in all great for seeing static and ...

Yes it could be over done in a hurry, I had only used 2 times it on wooden buildings or a rail fence.

With the D500 I have started plugging the camera in instead of putting card in comp because my comp doesn't read SDHC cards but it will thru the camera. And it it is much faster that way! Also my ...

With buildings Ive had some success with making 1 element into sepia. Sepia layer added then erased where needed

I have many Tundra Swans (we call them Whistling Swans around the Chesapeake Bay) on KR-64 When they come back this fall the D500 and 200-500 will be waiting for them. I love seeing and hearing ...

this is the one (out of many Ive worked on) that comes close to what I want in false color. B&W's end up looking good about 1 out of 2 maybe 3 and its still a touch too magenta Still better in B&W ...

Nice. Though in the B&W's you might want to bump up the contrast a bit for better blacks and make the foliage closer to white (meaning less grey)