ytwong wrote:
Looks like your D600 suffers from dust spot issue..
I can't tolerate that anymore so I just sent mine to Nikon service today.
To be fair I change lenses a lot. in dusty conditions, nothing a quick wet clean cant take care of.
Just sold my D700 and looking at the D600. Really nervous about the dust/oil issues. My primary camera is an F6, but wanted a smaller and lighter full frame DSLR. The D600 specs are very nice with very little I will miss from my D700. Just hope the dust/oil issues won't drive me nuts.
Oneonta River Gorge. I wish I had more water, fewer people and less sun in the canyon, but I worked with what I had at the time. I think I went crazy with some of the tones, but I'll just roll with it.
twistys4me wrote:
Awesome shot pburke!! How hard is it to manual focus that lens with motorsports?
I used to shoot professionally in the 90s, using Canon AF gear, and even then I only used the AF to quickly pre-focus for the area to shoot. I never really AF the actual shots. The setup I used above actually can AF (that's the beauty of the TC-16A once modded), but it isn't a fast AF, so it's really the old shooting style, just pre-focus where you want the car to be exposed, and then expose when they get there.
The thing that has changed since the film days is that you now can shoot this thing at ISO 400 without noticeable degradation, so you can get more depth of field and you have more keepers at the end of the day.
It is much harder to get them as they drive away from you, especially with the main features of the car in the shade - this one was taken without the TC - and I had a lot less keeper frames from that angle
