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Tuesday, September 16. 2014

Camera and lens

That was quick. The Zambia pics, he says, are from Nikon D800, lens Nikon 200-400  f4 straight through.


I do not know what any of that means but it seems to work for taking pretty pictures. I just use a Lumix Travel Zoom.


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Your friend got a beautiful shot of the cat. I have the D800, and use it mostly for portraits and wide angle landscapes with the 24-70 f2.8, and the 16-35 f4. Also like the 70-200 f4 but can't afford the 200-400 OR a trip to Zambia...It's a fantastic lens, and your friend did a great job.

As for you, Bird Dog, I've been nagging you for years. Get something better than those point and shoots of yours....You could use the Nikon D3300 and a kit lens, and it would weight barely more, but get way better pictures. Or use a micro four thirds if you have to have something small and light, like the Olympus' baby version (lighter) the OMD EM10 with the 14-42 kit lens which collapses almost to a pancake for storage. Life's too short to use cr***y cameras.
#1 retriever on 2014-09-16 23:14 (Reply)

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