My new D7100 is not a lemon... :)

[coastalconn]

I vote for............................It's working perfectly as designed.
Met a lady out shooting using a D800e. She slipped and the camera barely scraped the ground. Something was weird with the circuitry. She started using her 2nd body D7100. I can't tell the difference from her D800 pics vs her D7100 pics. They are all very impressive. D7100 winner winner Osprey dinnner!

I know the D800 has better ISO performance and I'm sure more DR, but I would still have a DX camera. If the new D7100 was as bad as the first I was really toying with the idea of a D3. Glad I don't have to spend that much. I might be able to get the 150-600 still

Awesome captures! The bokeh in #3 is outstanding!

Oh, man, I am so happy for you! You've got a properly-functioning camera...no more fighting it!!! Good deal! The first shot, the one of the osprey with the band on its leg, is pretty cool. Really a nice, tightly framed shot.

My fav - #2 & #5.. The images are just so damn sharp! :hail:

just great glad everything came togather happy shooting

Thank you kindly!

Gees, the guy can shoot !!

LOL, that first shot is to die for with those details and look. It means business, phew wish that was mine. The second shot, my goodness, outstanding details and stare with the selective focus bang on the eye, oh so good. Love the feather layering on the back as well. That eastern .... Phoebe is a fantastic little bird and another excellent sharp shot.

Beautiful shots and extremely well taken. Great eye for a shot. Owl's, man I want to see those one day.

All the best up there. Any camera is a lemon in the wrong hands, yours is not

Danny.

Thank you Danny!

Beautiful as always. As happy as I am for you to have a fully functioning body ( camera), it's a little annoying to know you took all those awesome photos with sub par equipment.

Are you on a Facebook photography group by chance? Because I swear I saw the hawk picture on one of my groups.

Umm, Osprey? Besides my page that Astro linked, I posted it in "Raptors in Focus" also

Are you on a Facebook photography group by chance? Because I swear I saw the hawk picture on one of my groups.

https://www.facebook.com/KristoferRowePhotography

So was it just AF that was out in the other D7100 ??
Danny.

The AF would never settle in, I thought it was my lens for the first few months and actually sent it back to be repaired because the HSM was locking up at infinite and all the things you read online. I wish i had your god-like manual focusing skills, but I don't think anyone does!

Number 2 is nothing short of perfect :thumbup:

Whoooooot! Nice to hear!

Thank you!

 

[nzmacro]

Ahhhh I see. Thanks to Astro for the link as well. What a complete pain in the butt that would have been. that's nightmare stuff. Its the sort of thing you start question if the brand you are using is right. I guess all cameras go through the quality control issue now and again. Interesting reading in that other thread, but just glad its all sorted now, because man can you shoot !!.

Be great to see what you think of the Tamron 150-600 when you get a couple of weeks in with it, that should be fun to watch.

All the best and pleased for you now, that's all good news.

Danny.

PS: BTW ..... "May the sun be at your back and the birds be in your face!" = perfection

 

[SpikeyJohnson]

Glad to see you got a new camera! You definitely have a knack for those wildlife shots. I'm assuming those were the sigma near 500? I didn't realize how finicky wildlife was to shoot 'til this weekend when I was driving the canyon and shot a few of the deer. I have never shot wildlife before and I think your composition of the subjects is awesome

 

[coastalconn]

Ahhhh I see. Thanks to Astro for the link as well. What a complete pain in the butt that would have been. that's nightmare stuff. Its the sort of thing you start question if the brand you are using is right. I guess all cameras go through the quality control issue now and again. Interesting reading in that other thread, but just glad its all sorted now, because man can you shoot !!.
Be great to see what you think of the Tamron 150-600 when you get a couple of weeks in with it, that should be fun to watch.
All the best and pleased for you now, that's all good news.

Danny.

PS: BTW ..... "May the sun be at your back and the birds be in your face!" = perfection

It was so incredibly frustrating all winter! I went from 19/20 sharp shots to 1/40. I got the lens and camera about the same time in oct/nov. Thinking back I tried a Nikon 300 F4 about the same time and it did the same strange jittery nervous thing. Perfection it is Thanks Danny! Keep those Kingfishers coming!

Glad to see you got a new camera! You definitely have a knack for those wildlife shots. I'm assuming those were the sigma near 500? I didn't realize how finicky wildlife was to shoot 'til this weekend when I was driving the canyon and shot a few of the deer. I have never shot wildlife before and I think your composition of the subjects is awesome

Thank you sir! I pretty much always shoot with my Sigma 120-300 F2.8 OS non sport with the 2x TC on. Wildlife is one of the trickiest subjects, you have little control over the light, less control over your subjects and normally a split second to get the shot. You really have to log tons of hours of practice, followed by a gazillion hours in the field. With my Ospreys I go to certain nests on certain days based on sun position, wind and tides! Just to give you an idea of sharpness, here is the second shot uncropped.. sorry for web compression..

 

[Raj_55555]

Wow! TBH I actually like the un-cropped version better... Amazing shot.

 

[nzmacro]

Wildlife is one of the trickiest subjects, you have little control over the light, less control over your subjects and normally a split second to get the shot. You really have to log tons of hours of practice, followed by a gazillion hours in the field. With my Ospreys I go to certain nests on certain days based on sun position, wind and tides! Just to give you an idea of sharpness, here is the second shot uncropped.. sorry for web compression..

Excellent summary and bang on the money. Time, dedication, patience and stubbornness are the best tools we own and those cost nothing.

I go to certain nests on certain days based on sun position, wind and tides!

Exactly !!. Very well said and the only way to shoot. Cropping goes hand in hand and that's a darn good crop looking at the second shot.

All the best Kris and that shot is just OUTSTANDING. Make one heck of a cover on a nature mag IMO.

Danny.

 

[pjaye]

Are you on a Facebook photography group by chance? Because I swear I saw the hawk picture on one of my groups.

https://www.facebook.com/KristoferRowePhotography

A group, not his own page.

I'm part of two facebook photography groups and I swear this same picture popped up. I'm asking because both groups are local to me and the OP is not.

 

[pjaye]

No, it was on a local group. I tried to look again last night on the facebook page, but couldn't find it. Going to look again. I swear it was the same pictures because there were multiple comments on the talons. And I noticed the wings were clipped. If I find it and it is the same one, I'll let you know. Both of these groups are specific to my city.

 

[coastalconn]

No, it was on a local group. I tried to look again last night on the facebook page, but couldn't find it. Going to look again. I swear it was the same pictures because there were multiple comments on the talons. And I noticed the wings were clipped. If I find it and it is the same one, I'll let you know. Both of these groups are specific to my city.

Thanks for the lookout! I would be very interested to know if someone just shared it, or if they stole it. As long as my watermark is there I don't care..