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I thought about that and decided to stay with this composition. Actually come to think of it, I probably could have stooped down a little. Need to get that 14-30mm/f4 S and go back for more ...

This is right in Jim's neck of the woods: China Beach in Point Lobos, near Carmel/Monterey Z6 with 24-70mm/f4 S @ 24mm, f11, 1/80 sec and ISO 100. Wish I had a 14-30mm/f4 S.

First of all, just a bit of background: I bought my first Nikon lens in 1977, the year Nikon introduced Auto Indexing (AI). Now 40+ year later, I have purchased probably over 40+ Nikkor lenses ...

That is what I would do. Back in year 2000, I went to Tanzania for safari. I had the 500mm/f4 and 300mm/f2.8 with me. I stayed in Amsterdam for one night to break up the long trip. At the Schiphol ...

Here is a different example where the subject is much farther away. Nikkor 500mm/f5.6 PF @ f5.6, 1/1600 sec, and ISO 400 on the D850 (FX format). Again, this is a 100% crop but otherwise there is ...

I have both of those two types of lenses, a 300mm/f2.8 AF-S from 1998 (1996 version) and the first-generation 200-400mm/f4 AF-S VR. Back in the film era, the 300mm/f2.8 was very useful under lower ...

Below is the entire frame from the D500. There is no post-processing other than cropping in the earlier 100% crop (i.e. no sharpening). That is a golden-crowned sparrow, which is a small bird that ...

This is the center of a 100% crop, Nikkor 500mm/f5.6 PF, wide open @ f5.6, 1/1600 sec with VR on, ISO 450 on DX-format D500, hand held

As I said, mine was available in late December 2018, and its serial number is 2041xx. Three months later, it looks like that has advanced to 2055xx. In other words, the rate of increase is around ...

Your friend's case in Canada, about a 2.5 month wait, seems to be in the ballpark. BTW, it would be nice if your friend can share the first 4 digits of the serial number for that 500mm PF. In your ...

This is certainly sad. I have been to Paris and Notre Dame only once, back in September 2005. I love the candles inside.

You certainly would experience diffraction at f16 and f22, but that would only make the images slightly unsharp. It shouldn't make a huge difference. Personally, I have had some very bad ...

Please keep in mind that in these days, a cruise to Antarctica can easily cost over US$10K plus airfare, etc. For those of us who take photography seriously, it makes a lot of sense to buy, rent, ...

It sounds like you already have the 70-200mm/f2.8 FL and a TC-20E III but not a 1.4x TC. If I were you, I would first get a TC-14E III, but keep in mind that it does not fully work with any older ...

Thank you. I have been on photo trips to all seven continents around the world. In fact, I have been to each continent at least twice, as this was our second trip to Antarctica. There is a lot of ...

Since my wife and I bought our first house in 1987, we have been buying home-owners insurance, including an "umbrella policy" that covers high liability, but we have never filed any claim in 30+ ...

... Interesting that the 600mm/f4E has sold more than twice as many as the 500mm version, but the 500mm has direct competition from the Sigma 500mm while the 600 doesn't. Now there is the ...

I wonder how you arrived the 12,000 figure. Again, that one 500 PF that was in stock at my local camera store in late December and I eventually picked up on January 2 (2019) has the serial number ...

Roland still has 204977 on his web site as of now (April 15, 2019), same as a week ago. However, next time he updates it, we'll know that 2053xx serial number is marmotguy's. :-D Seriously, someone ...

Steve, not sure you are referring to any particular individual. But regardless, I have been to far corners of the world quite a few times, and photography is important to me. Whenever I got to ...