Suddenly the lens i regretted now i Appreciate...

[Photo Lady]

Well, the expression " live and learn " has been around for long time. I guess you learned a good lesson and in the process realized you have a pretty good lens. I find a 70- 300 is actually a very useful lens... I own two of them,one fairly old, and the other relatively new.

Thanks Derrel.. i am still in a bit of shock......

 

[Photo Lady]

So awesome!

thank you.. all because of you with the weekly forum.. or i would have never bothered trying it...

That’s really great to know. Some weeks we get almost no participation and I wonder if people are bored with it.[/QUO

 

[Photo Lady]

So awesome!

thank you.. all because of you with the weekly forum.. or i would have never bothered trying it...

That’s really great to know. Some weeks we get almost no participation and I wonder if people are bored with it.

I am not bored with it..learned so much from it..and hope it continues..

 

[K9Kirk]

Nice pics and it seems to be a fine lens. It's too bad the same can't be said for my "kit" Canon 75-300 which is notorious for it's ability to produce the most splendidly crappy pictures. lol! I am curious as to what settings you stumbled upon. I'm assuming you discovered shutter priority mode (S or TV) or other?

 

[Photo Lady]

ATTACH=full]188386 after i make changes to camera i should write it down.. i just do it.. and it worked..thank you Kirk.. i AM happy

 

[K9Kirk]

Nice shot. What is the [/I]?

 

[Photo Lady]

Nice shot. What is the [/I]?

Lol i don't know... thanks

 

[K9Kirk]

lol! I thought that maybe it was a Nikon setting (I'm not familiar with Nikon). Never mind, all that matters is that you're happy.

 

[Warhorse]

Glad you found your "settings", wish I could find the great settings you have.

 

[Photo Lady]

lol! I thought that maybe it was a Nikon setting (I'm not familiar with Nikon). Never mind, all that matters is that you're happy.

thanks ... yes happy...

 

[Photo Lady]

Glad you found your "settings", wish I could find the great settings you have.

i am sure your doing just fine... lol

 

[LightSpeed666]

Both of my raptor pics that you gave likes for, were done with a Tamron SP AF 70-200mm f/2.8 Di LD Macro.
The dragon fly in flight was also done with it. You know , I'm new with all this , but, the lens itself is excellent.
It does a 1:3 macro too. It's perfect when 1:1 is too much.

I was going to get the HD PENTAX-D FA★ 70-200mm F2.8ED DC AW - $1600.00

I have the
smc PENTAX-DA★ 16-50mm F2.8 ED - $1050.00. This is a very good high quality lens.
BUT. The Tamron in a side by side comparison renders images just as good or better in some instances.
I paid about 700.00 for my Tammy. It's noisy compared to the DA* 16-50mm, on auto focus.
This auto focus noise before the shutter flip ( which I just thought about thanks to this thread) is real quiet on a Pentax, is what made the last Hawk look at me.
I only got one shot. But you saw it. It came from the Tamron. If not for the noisy auto focus that hawk would not have looked right at me. I was close. Real close.
So close to that bird that I shot him at 82mm focal length. Not 200mm. But only 1 shot.......and poof. He was gone. You can tell in the photo that he was alarmed and in the process of taking flight.

For image rendering, and sharpness, it is deadly. I think you may end up liking that Tamron.

Have a good day, Mam.

 

[Derrel]

Manual exposure mode with auto ISO enabled at a good combination of shutter speed and f-stop for the conditions at hand is a powerful combination,especially with a good sensor such as the D500 or the D800 has.

 

[K9Kirk]

Manual exposure mode with auto ISO enabled at a good combination of shutter speed and f-stop for the conditions at hand is a powerful combination,especially with a good sensor such as the D500 or the D800 has.

That's what I used to do and it worked pretty good except (maybe just my camera sensor) the camera wouldn't always get a proper light reading, it would sometimes read the background instead of the subject and give me dark pictures due to low ISO. That method I have to say still works best on the fly when you don't have time to change settings and have to shoot like right now. Best for birds on the move in certain situations. I got to watching videos and I adopted Arthur Morris' method which you have to work at a little more being that it's not "auto" but my ratio of good pictures to bad pictures has increased dramatically. In case anyone is interested, here are the two videos that have helped me the most with settings for wildlife. I highly recommend watching them no matter what camera you have. Happy snapping!

 

[Photo Lady]

Both of my raptor pics that you gave likes for, were done with a Tamron SP AF 70-200mm f/2.8 Di LD Macro.
The dragon fly in flight was also done with it. You know , I'm new with all this , but, the lens itself is excellent.
It does a 1:3 macro too. It's perfect when 1:1 is too much.

I was going to get the HD PENTAX-D FA★ 70-200mm F2.8ED DC AW - $1600.00

I have the
smc PENTAX-DA★ 16-50mm F2.8 ED - $1050.00. This is a very good high quality lens.
BUT. The Tamron in a side by side comparison renders images just as good or better in some instances.
I paid about 700.00 for my Tammy. It's noisy compared to the DA* 16-50mm, on auto focus.
This auto focus noise before the shutter flip ( which I just thought about thanks to this thread) is real quiet on a Pentax, is what made the last Hawk look at me.
I only got one shot. But you saw it. It came from the Tamron. If not for the noisy auto focus that hawk would not have looked right at me. I was close. Real close.
So close to that bird that I shot him at 82mm focal length. Not 200mm. But only 1 shot.......and poof. He was gone. You can tell in the photo that he was alarmed and in the process of taking flight.

For image rendering, and sharpness, it is deadly. I think you may end up liking that Tamron.

Have a good day, Mam.

thank you for all your info... i think i am on my way now that i discovered what was wrong...