A tough shoot at 6:40 am when the sun was rising behind the forest. ISO 3200 is less than perfect on the D500 when the light is low and the main subject resides at a distance. Fortunately, I was able to sit on a bank, create a body tripod, and rely on VR to make this image happen.
regards,
bruce
The Making of Lemonade...
My heron rookery is dying after 12 very productive years. The island of trees are dying, and the cormorants are taking over abandoned heron nests. I have nothing against cormorants, but they do lack the grace of herons flying too and from their nesting platforms.
Yesterday I decided to put the canoe in the water, paddle to the rookery and do some photography. As is often the case in the upper Midwest, the prior nights weather forecast was not even close to expectation. Partly cloudy morning light was replaced by a thick dense layer that I like to call pea soup. I shoved off despite the less that flattering light w/ my D500 and 500PF, set auto iso to a max of 3200 and made the most fo the session. In the end, I was left with very few portfolio worthy images (like none), but it was still a great day on the river.
cheers,
bruce
Can you tell me what is this “Memory Set” button on the rear of lens? It’s different from 4 buttons i think. How do and what do you set it up for and is it useful?
6683 wrote:
Can you tell me what is this “Memory Set” button on the rear of lens? It’s different from 4 buttons i think. How do and what do you set it up for and is it useful?
Pressing that button at a particular focus distance sets that distance in memory. If the switch on the side is set to memory recall, then pressing any of the four front buttons will return the lens to that focus distance as fast as the motors will allow. This woul dbe useful if you are at a particular location and there is always action happening at a fixed distance. Sometimes you might find stuff elsewhere but you can immediately recall that distance so that focus acquisition is very fast for anything happening there.
JasonTheBirder wrote:
Pressing that button at a particular focus distance sets that distance in memory. If the switch on the side is set to memory recall, then pressing any of the four front buttons will return the lens to that focus distance as fast as the motors will allow. This woul dbe useful if you are at a particular location and there is always action happening at a fixed distance. Sometimes you might find stuff elsewhere but you can immediately recall that distance so that focus acquisition is very fast for anything happening there.
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