This is why the camera body matters more than ever before. Glass is terrific, but a powerful sensor makes it really shine. And vice versa, of course.
OTOH, if he didn't have a lens with f2.8 & 300mm he couldn't have got the shot either. Assuming the lens used was the Nikon 300mm f2.8 VR, the lens still cost $1,700 more than the camera. I think the D300 would have got the shot also, at f2.8 and 1/500 shutter speed. Anyway, the important thing with this shot is the light. Where I live there are currently millions of migrating birds and thousands of public places to find them. I was out this morning, in fact. Left my Nikon home and took my Beretta 12 ga. though. I assume this was shot in one of the Northern Plains states, such as Nebraska or North Dakota? This is a fairly common scene there this time of year. (Although the light makes this one excellent.)
This is why the camera body matters more than ever before. Glass is terrific, but a powerful sensor makes it really shine. And vice versa, of course.
It sure doesn't hurt Thanks!
This is why the camera body matters more than ever before. Glass is terrific, but a powerful sensor makes it really shine. And vice versa, of course.
Two23 wrote:
OTOH, if he didn't have a lens with f2.8 & 300mm he couldn't have got the shot either. Assuming the lens used was the Nikon 300mm f2.8 VR, the lens still cost $1,700 more than the camera. I think the D300 would have got the shot also, at f2.8 and 1/500 shutter speed. Anyway, the important thing with this shot is the light. Where I live there are currently millions of migrating birds and thousands of public places to find them. I was out this morning, in fact. Left my Nikon home and took my Beretta 12 ga. though. I assume this was shot in one of the Northern Plains states, such as Nebraska or North Dakota? This is a fairly common scene there this time of year. (Although the light makes this one excellent.)
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Wrong! I have the D300 and 200 f2 VR and left 'em home. The noise would have been unbearable, SOOC.
I brought what I know would do the job at that FL and the light I had to work with. Millions/thousands
of places huh Glad you're not prone to exaggeration, Kent!
Where I live there are currently millions of migrating birds and thousands of public places to find them. I was out this morning, in fact. Left my Nikon home and took my Beretta 12 ga. though. 
I assume this was shot in one of the Northern Plains states, such as Nebraska or North Dakota? This is a fairly common scene there this time of year. (Although the light makes this one excellent.)
Thanks! 
Glad you're not prone to exaggeration, Kent! 