freddd
New member
Just came back from Tanzania and had with me 2 Nikon Z8s, Nikon S 70-200 F2.8 and Nikon S 400 F4.5. For those thinking of equipment, this combination is wonderful.
- Total weight of my bad was 8kg. Very easy to handle the two cameras with lenses, including in the safari vehicles
- Incredible quality. With the 70-200, in some cases I cropped pictures and the result remained oustanding
- Very useful with low light conditions with F2.8 and F4.5 respectively
- In practice, I didn't miss a 600 or longer. In some cases, you could see heat waves and a longer lens would have made very little difference
- Initially, I struggled with changing subjects, from mammals to birds. You don't have much type to change settings. I put the recall function as a Bird mode and assigned it to the lens Fn2 button. This proved to be very effective (switch to Bird recognition, high speed 1/4500, open a little aperture). Very practical. Also, I usually don't do birds but I was surprised how well it worked for BIF.
- ended with 10,000 pictures over a week so going through selection now but as said above, quality (to my eyes) on a MacBook 16inch screen is fantastic.
Hope this helps
Frederic
- Total weight of my bad was 8kg. Very easy to handle the two cameras with lenses, including in the safari vehicles
- Incredible quality. With the 70-200, in some cases I cropped pictures and the result remained oustanding
- Very useful with low light conditions with F2.8 and F4.5 respectively
- In practice, I didn't miss a 600 or longer. In some cases, you could see heat waves and a longer lens would have made very little difference
- Initially, I struggled with changing subjects, from mammals to birds. You don't have much type to change settings. I put the recall function as a Bird mode and assigned it to the lens Fn2 button. This proved to be very effective (switch to Bird recognition, high speed 1/4500, open a little aperture). Very practical. Also, I usually don't do birds but I was surprised how well it worked for BIF.
- ended with 10,000 pictures over a week so going through selection now but as said above, quality (to my eyes) on a MacBook 16inch screen is fantastic.
Hope this helps
Frederic