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I live by the ocean, so we have lots and lots of seagulls, good for practicing BIF Nikon D750, Tokina AT-X AF SD 80-200mm at 200mm f7.1 1/1000, ISO 320, slightly cropped. Pulled up the exposure about +0.73 in post. The Tokina is from the early 90s and I am frankly baffled that it actually works for BIF. Of course the amazing autofocus system in the D750 helps a ton. This lens was dogshit on my old D300, but works quite well on my D750, especially stepped down.
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 Another seagull. I liked how this turned out, but it's becoming painfully obvious that I need another 100mm or so of lens... when I can actually aim it properly  Typically it goes like this, though I know it's a difficult angle (full frame at 200mm, jpeg straight from the camera):  -> 
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Jun 29, 2022 21:56
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 I saw a small duck family walking past the house across the street today  The ducklings did not have a good time getting over obstacles though...
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Jul 2, 2022 23:52
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Just picked up a Nikkor 70-300 AF-P VR and this thing blows me away. 1/1600, f/7.1, ISO400, D750 + 70-300
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Aug 1, 2022 16:07
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 Got lucky with this one 
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Aug 13, 2022 21:56
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Shooting against the sky like that I usually do +2/3-1 stop. Darktable is a good free lightroom alternative. Not as polished though.
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Dec 19, 2022 07:11
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I shoot raw+jpeg for most things, but jpeg for birds since the raw buffer on the D750 is pitiful. Don't do that without having nailed your settings though 
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Dec 19, 2022 16:07
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Mega Comrade posted:Isn't the buffer like 12ish shots for 14bit? That's not awful but I can see it being limited for BIF, you could go down to 12bit, would probably double it and you only lose a smidge of data in the darkest of shadows. You know, I hadn't looked into that, going to check it out tonight I have a pretty good in-camera jpeg preset, so it's not a big deal, but this warrants investigation.
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Dec 19, 2022 16:51
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Lights posted:I picked up one a few weeks ago and finally took it out the other day and it was utterly useless due to the hot shoe adapter being super wobbly. Very annoying, because I really like the idea of being able to track birds in a non-600mm field of view. I didn't have time to troubleshoot it til today - the screw that attaches the hot shoe to the weaver rail was loose. But then when I fixed that, I discovered that the little plate on the bottom was a millimeter or so too narrow, so if the scope gets bumped, it'll wiggle and go out of alignment even if the knob is tightened all the way down. I think I might be able to stick a toothpick in to wedge it in place a bit better, might try that out sometime. Do you have a picture of this contraption?
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May 27, 2023 01:09
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 A making GBS threads bird. Also still trying to figure out focus - it nailed the wingtip (and a bit of the poo poo  ) but the rest of the bird is out of focus.
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Jun 16, 2023 20:44
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jarlywarly posted:I find the zoomable EVF saves me most of the "is that an interesting bird or just another wood pigeon" shots these days. The EVF is quite the help for this, yeah Ohai.  Bai! 
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