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It's been years since I visited the River Safari , so I decided to give the Nikon D850 and my Nikkor 60mm f2.8 micro lens a workout at this attraction. I recommend bringing a macro lens like the Nikkor 60mm or the Nikkor 105mm to places like this as the lighting can be pretty dim so the fast aperture of f2.8 can help a lot. Also the macro lenses allow for very close distance focusing which is an excellent way to capture impactful images !! The Nikon D850's Auto Focus performa

I wanted to play with the Focus Shift so badly that I decided to spend a couple of hours doing some macro photography on flowers in the Flower Dome , Gardens By The Bay. A few tips & lessons that I have learnt from today's session : 1. after composing the shot, prefocus to a point just before the nearest point to the camera that you want sharp becomes in focus. This would then become the start focus point. 2. AF must of course be enabled , use AF-S 3. For smaller size flowers

This post is probably going to sound very biased ...... but I am still going to post my findings on how amazing the D850 RAW & JPEG FINE file quality really is. Today I was out looking for some birds to photograph and ended up photographing dragonflies flying again. This was the shot of the session (see below) Captured at 600mm angle of view , the Nikon D850 was set to DX mode so this image only has 20 Megapixels i.e only 40% of full resolution. Image Capture Settings : ISO

For those that have just acquired the Nikon D850 and have not tried the new Focus Shift feature, here are some initial recommendations on how to set. INITIAL RECOMMENDATIONS FOR Nearest subject focus distance ~ 8 to 10 feet Furthest subject focus distance - infinity Lens aperture set to f5.6 to obtain best lens resolution/contrast performance (can try f8.0 also) Focus Step Width at 5 Lens focal length 60mm 35m

This is the first time Nikon has introduced this feature and it is in the Nikon D850 !! I had my first experience using it today at Gardens By The Bay. Basically this feature enables the camera to capture individual images by shifting focus points automatically. The images can be then saved in a separate folder (user defined) which can then be stacked during post processing. Once the Focus Shift setup is done, all the photographer needs to do is to activate start and the came

It wasn't that great a day weather wise but I was anxious to exercise the Nikon D850 with the Nikkor 80-400mm f4.5/5.6. I really wanted to see what I could produce with this practical and hand-holdable combo at the Jurong Bird Park. All the images that I will be sharing were all captured in a single 5 hours session. Photographing birds at the Bird Park may sound easy to some but I find that the park is a very realistic location to photograph birds in a similarly challenging e

Sharing my first reactions on using the new Nikon D850 for macro photography on one of my favourite macro subjects, the ROBBERFLY. My regular Nikon DSLR used for macro work would normally be the Nikon D500 as I like the additional magnification provided by the 1.5x (DX) crop sensor, so would the new D850 provide me with macro images that I expect as this is now a full frame DSLR ? Equipment used 1. Nikon D850 2. Nikkor 60mm f2.8 micro lens 3. Nikon SB700 flash with customise

Thanks to Nikon Singapore for wanting to work with me as one of the thirty two Nikon D850 Asia Pacific, Middle East & Africa campaign photographers. Truly honoured and proud to be associated with the Nikon brand and craftsmanship. As I work with numerous photography genres, I use different Nikon cameras for different genres. When it comes to sports and wildlife I use the Nikon D4 and the Nikon D500. For all other genres, I used the Nikon D810 which has a 36.3 megapixel (MP) s