Nikon D750 & D780

minnnt said:
You are bone.

Drive up Winnats Pass and turn left, there is a little pull in near a style. Climb over that and walk across the field and you're there.
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Thanks. I'm assuming that's a way of saying bone idle? Not really, more unfit ;)
 
KitsuneAndy said:
Sold the 70-200 today.

Anyone have any idea how the sigma 105 macro compares to the Nikon?
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I have the Sigma and am very happy with it. Never tried the Nikon to compare it to though.
 
So, did I miss any cloud inversions this morning, or was my decision to stay in bed vindicated?! :sleep:
 
Chuckoir said:
So, did I miss any cloud inversions this morning, or was my decision to stay in bed vindicated?! :sleep:
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Really good inversions with really nice light too, best conditions of the year so far :sneaky:
 
I also have no experience with the Nikon 105 macro, but I've been using the Sigma for a while now(testing it quite a bit today) and have found it to be VERY comparable to the Canon 100 L and that's one of the best macro lenses out there. IMHO [emoji4]
 
drb5 said:
I also have no experience with the Nikon 105 macro, but I've been using the Sigma for a while now(testing it quite a bit today) and have found it to be VERY comparable to the Canon 100 L and that's one of the best macro lenses out there. IMHO [emoji4]
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Excellent, lots of people have given the Sigma the thumbs up, so that'll save me a bit of cash as the Nikon one is a bit pricey.
 
KitsuneAndy said:
Excellent, lots of people have given the Sigma the thumbs up, so that'll save me a bit of cash as the Nikon one is a bit pricey.
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I keep toying with a macro. Read quite a bit and both get exceptional reviews, tend to go for £200 and £400 respectively secondhand. I nearly bought a secondhand sigma a few months back but thought I'd wait until next summer.
 
Livin The Dream said:
I keep toying with a macro. Read quite a bit and both get exceptional reviews, tend to go for £200 and £400 respectively secondhand. I nearly bought a secondhand sigma a few months back but thought I'd wait until next summer.
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I've had a couple of the sigmas over the years (mostly bought in the spring when I start thinking wouldn't macro be great), the reviews I've read seem to think the sigma is slightly better than the Nikon. The price of the sigma new at £319 at present is pretty good, you can pick them up for less. I can't remember what I sold the two lenses for but it wasn't a big loss from new. The only reason I sold them was because I just wasn't using them, I think that's the reason many sell them for rather than them being rubbish. The AF is noticeably slower but then I often use a 70-200 f2.8 and for macro it's easier to use manual focus set at 1:1 ratio and focus by moving in and out or with the focus ring.

Part of letting the macro go was because I've been trying to minimise the kit I have to what I actually use often enough to justify keeping it. I've managed to get my lenses down to 4, maybe even 3 as I'm finding I'm just not using the 20mm f1.8 as much as I thought. The 24-120 f4 is doing majority of my landscape stuff.
 
rob-nikon said:
I've had a couple of the sigmas over the years (mostly bought in the spring when I start thinking wouldn't macro be great), the reviews I've read seem to think the sigma is slightly better than the Nikon. The price of the sigma new at £319 at present is pretty good, you can pick them up for less. I can't remember what I sold the two lenses for but it wasn't a big loss from new. The only reason I sold them was because I just wasn't using them, I think that's the reason many sell them for rather than them being rubbish. The AF is noticeably slower but then I often use a 70-200 f2.8 and for macro it's easier to use manual focus set at 1:1 ratio and focus by moving in and out or with the focus ring.

Part of letting the macro go was because I've been trying to minimise the kit I have to what I actually use often enough to justify keeping it. I've managed to get my lenses down to 4, maybe even 3 as I'm finding I'm just not using the 20mm f1.8 as much as I thought. The 24-120 f4 is doing majority of my landscape stuff.
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Try to do similar Rob. These days I try to buy once and not swap around so much. I have my core lenses that I can't see me selling unless something really does come out that is much better. I bought into Nikon for that reason when they launched the D750. The theory was that once I have the core lenses, body upgrades will be one every 4-5 years which works out significantly cheaper than Canon. Lost a bit doing the move initially, but more than made up for it since. I have enough kit now, anything else is just GAS. The baby girl has helped quash some of that too :)
 
rob-nikon said:
The AF is noticeably slower but then I often use a 70-200 f2.8 and for macro it's easier to use manual focus set at 1:1 ratio and focus by moving in and out or with the focus ring.
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Do you mean the Sigma 105mm macro has slower AF than the Nikon 105mm, or the 70-200?
 
Slower than the 70
drb5 said:
Do you mean the Sigma 105mm macro has slower AF than the Nikon 105mm, or the 70-200?
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70-200. I've never used the Nikon macro 105mm. It's not really a problem as you don't really use AF with macro lenses unless you try using it for other things. I tried the sigma for wildlife as I wasn't using it for macro, it was ok.
 
drb5 said:
Do you mean the Sigma 105mm macro has slower AF than the Nikon 105mm, or the 70-200?
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Macros generally have slow AF. The 70-200mm is super fast (the Nikon VRII is anyway)
 
minnnt said:
Well that wash out. Still, recce'd a new location though ready for when the weather is better suited.

I think 50mm is super for landscapes!
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Where did you get to? Pretty bleak, was supposed to be brightening up by now and I was going to go out deer 'hunting' but I won't unless the light improves :rolleyes:
 
minnnt said:
Bolehill Quarry.
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Crikey, I used to live just up the road from there and never given it a thought about a good place for photos :facepalm: Stubbing Court just down from there would be great too if you could get some low lying mist on the water :)
 
Grindleford Way? Didn't even know there was a place called Bolehill or even a quarry around there :oops: :$ I'm just heading just above there now onto Big Moor, fingers crossed it's a bit brighter up there.
 
rob-nikon said:
I've had a couple of the sigmas over the years (mostly bought in the spring when I start thinking wouldn't macro be great), the reviews I've read seem to think the sigma is slightly better than the Nikon. The price of the sigma new at £319 at present is pretty good, you can pick them up for less. I can't remember what I sold the two lenses for but it wasn't a big loss from new. The only reason I sold them was because I just wasn't using them, I think that's the reason many sell them for rather than them being rubbish. The AF is noticeably slower but then I often use a 70-200 f2.8 and for macro it's easier to use manual focus set at 1:1 ratio and focus by moving in and out or with the focus ring.

Part of letting the macro go was because I've been trying to minimise the kit I have to what I actually use often enough to justify keeping it. I've managed to get my lenses down to 4, maybe even 3 as I'm finding I'm just not using the 20mm f1.8 as much as I thought. The 24-120 f4 is doing majority of my landscape stuff.
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I had the sigma 70-200 and just never really gelled with it. Wanting macro for ring shots etc but will also use it for portraits, there is also the 105 and 135 DC of course, but that'd still leave me with no macro
 
minnnt said:
Flat as a pancake here. Good luck!
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Light was good, but took me over an hour and a half to find any deer by which time the sun had set :facepalm:
 
Anyone got any suggestions if I want to plonk the D750 on a tripod and let it rip at full FPS until the buffer is full with minimal intervention from me?

I'll need to trigger it as the event won't be entirely predictable, but once it starts I'd ideally like to then be using another camera handheld to capture it at a different focal length.
 
ukaskew said:
Anyone got any suggestions if I want to plonk the D750 on a tripod and let it rip at full FPS until the buffer is full with minimal intervention from me?

I'll need to trigger it as the event won't be entirely predictable, but once it starts I'd ideally like to then be using another camera handheld to capture it at a different focal length.
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The only thing I can think of is a remote shutter but you'd still have to hold the button down on that.
 
ukaskew said:
Anyone got any suggestions if I want to plonk the D750 on a tripod and let it rip at full FPS until the buffer is full with minimal intervention from me?

I'll need to trigger it as the event won't be entirely predictable, but once it starts I'd ideally like to then be using another camera handheld to capture it at a different focal length.
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Pixel Opplias, RF remote works upto 100m away. Can be set to various modes, machine gun included and is cheap as chips at about £20. But yes you will have to hold down the button while using your other camera.
 
ukaskew said:
Anyone got any suggestions if I want to plonk the D750 on a tripod and let it rip at full FPS until the buffer is full with minimal intervention from me?

I'll need to trigger it as the event won't be entirely predictable, but once it starts I'd ideally like to then be using another camera handheld to capture it at a different focal length.
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Doesn't the buffer fill in around 2 seconds and then carry on at a slower pace? I was surprised how short it was when I was photographing fishing Ospreys. I was using 14 bit raw, 12 bit raw gives a bit longer.

snerkler said:
The only thing I can think of is a remote shutter but you'd still have to hold the button down on that.
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Yongnuo remotes are pretty good, they are the best solution to reliable remote triggering I've found. They don't have a lock button on the remote like the cable releases do. I would think you need a shutter lock for it to carry on after initial triggering.
 
@ukaskew Or easier a wired remote with lock function, lock on and forget until your done with the other camera then unlock, buffer empties and ready to go again. All for about £3...
 
MartinCornwall said:
Pixel Opplias, RF remote works upto 100m away. Can be set to various modes, machine gun included and is cheap as chips at about £20. But yes you will have to hold down the button while using your other camera.
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I think that's the one I have (y)
 
rob-nikon said:
Doesn't the buffer fill in around 2 seconds and then carry on at a slower pace? I was surprised how short it was when I was photographing fishing Ospreys. I was using 14 bit raw, 12 bit raw gives a bit longer.


Yongnuo remotes are pretty good, they are the best solution to reliable remote triggering I've found. They don't have a lock button on the remote like the cable releases do. I would think you need a shutter lock for it to carry on after initial triggering.
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Buffer's not great in the D750, about 12 shots before it fills then down to about 1 fps. I didn't know you could get shutters that lock so will constantly fire until you unlock it :oops: :$
 
snerkler said:
Buffer's not great in the D750, about 12 shots before it fills then down to about 1 fps. I didn't know you could get shutters that lock so will constantly fire until you unlock it :oops: :$
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I've never tested it but I would think it would if it was locked up. I've only ever used the cable release lock button for bulb timing bug I guess it would do constantly fire the shutter if it wasn't in bulb. That may be something I may have to test.
 
snerkler said:
The only thing I can think of is a remote shutter but you'd still have to hold the button down on that.
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Remote shutter with a lock, pre focussed in shutter priority would then fire when something moved into focus
 
Went out tonight to try and take pictures of Stags/Deer but just got this instead :rolleyes:


DSC_6349 by TDG-77, on Flickr
 
rob-nikon said:
Slower than the 70

70-200. I've never used the Nikon macro 105mm. It's not really a problem as you don't really use AF with macro lenses unless you try using it for other things. I tried the sigma for wildlife as I wasn't using it for macro, it was ok.
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No worries, thanks.

I need the AF for what I use the macro for unfortunately...or fortunately depending what way I look at it. [emoji23]
 
Someone quickly let me know why I can't switch back on focus lock beep? I'm in AFS and BBF with AF-L.
 
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