NotASpeckOfCereal

I tend to align the tracker via the scope before equipment is attached. But if one is using the counter-balance, attached equipment should be too much of bother. My only problems so far with the SG is

Hey there, can you give a link to something that details the problem? Tells how to identify it? I have the SG Pro and haven't had any problems with it, but I'm new with it and may just not have ...

There are plenty of scenarios where you don't have the time / chance to take a test shot and need to chose or quick change the metering mode before you shoot. Chris

Nikon didn't get anything wrong, they are just estimating on the side extreme caution. They do this because they don't know what you're going to shoot. In edge cases, you can take a shot of a scene ...

Like the others, I mostly use Matrix, but will choose another depending on the scene. So the answer really is: know them all, don't just set-and-forget to a single mode. Chris

About that patience: we may not be talking 'just around the corner'. I would not wait for them if you need cards now. And when they do come out, your XQD cards will still be valid. Chris

... so mamma don't take my Kodachrome away ... Chris

<shrug> I was only responding to your "If he had been recording to 2 cards" comment about being able to recover the video, which is probably not accurate.

Except that with some cameras, only still photos go to both cards. I know that with the D850, videos only go to one card. Chris

Nikon didn't test their LCDs with polarized sunglasses?! That's outrageous!! :-p

Yup, me as well. This is especially true moving from Nikon F to Nikon F. "Yup, it looks like this works the same, so I can skip this section". I do too. I don't read it in its entirety at that ...

That's not what they're for. They are operating instructions for the hardware, with a few examples, most of which aren't sufficient for full comprehension of the feature. 3rd party books are the ...

Besides there being a table of contents, as someone else pointed out there is an index. So rather than read the entire manual, if you find the menu system perplexing, you could probably open the ...

I don't have a D810, but I can tell you that you should expect the NEF to exist on both cards, when the 2nd slot is configured as backup. This was true for my D3 (which pre-dates the D810 by quite ...

Noise reduction apps like Photo Ninja reduce noise in a completely different way than dark-frame reduction does (either in camera or in an app). The dark-frame method is a process of subtraction, ...

Hopefully someone else can chip in here, because I use ONLY a dedicated stacker app for this (mostly Sequator, which is free). But I've always heard that one could do it in Photoshop and this ...

I can think of a few reasons why it could have been done without making it too much larger (it would still be smaller than the D750). But mostly, I think that the MILC camera that they release in ...

Just a note: as others have pointed out, turning on long-exposure NR does create an a temporary dark-frame, which it subtracts that from the NEF and saves the modified file (you don't get the ...

I don't anyone that's EVER made this mistake. After all, it's a two-button push, and you have to do it twice. Mark, consider that you never did it by accident even though you had it. Just because ...