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| Posted: Tue Jul 5th, 2016 17:35 |
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Eric
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jk wrote:On a monopod or tripod the D3 and 400mm f2.8 is fairly easy to use but if you are carrying two cameras one of which has the 400mm attached life becomes burdensome. Well I certainly feel like a beast of burden. The results are awesome though. I was happy using a D3 with my 500mm on a tripod...it was lugging it about that irked me.
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| Posted: Wed Jul 6th, 2016 12:27 |
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Robert
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Eric wrote:Robert wrote:  When I was working for the building firm I worked for for many years, not many wanted to assist me with tasks I was engaged in because what ever it was, it was bound to be BIG and ****ing heavy! I haven't changed!!! When you add my surveyors tripod and my heavy duty pan/tilt head, the assembly can get a rather heavy. That was probably why I got vertigo having carried it for 9 miles one day at Donnington race track. At Rockingham I variously tried a Quad and trailer and my trusty push bike. Mind you even I drew the line at carrying my tripod on my pushbike...
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| Posted: Thu Jul 7th, 2016 13:14 |
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Eric
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Robert wrote:Eric wrote: You rough tough Lancashire lads! 
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| Posted: Thu Jul 7th, 2016 15:05 |
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Robert
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 (Cumbria!). Although I was born in Lancashire... Brung up in the West Riding then emigrated back to Lancashire, until the boundaries commission decided I was actually in Cumbria...Confused? So am I!!! 
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| Posted: Fri Jul 8th, 2016 03:14 |
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jk
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Easier to just consider yourself a world person!
____________________ Still learning after all these years! https://nikondslr.uk/gallery_view.php?user=2&folderid=none |
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| Posted: Sat Jul 9th, 2016 23:11 |
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TomOC
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Robert wrote:Tom, re. The Flash commander... Thanks, Robert. I still have to finish unboxing - been traveling and working on a project... teasing myself with the little beauty sitting on my desk at home 
____________________ Tom O'Connell -Lots of people talk to animals.... Not very many listen, though.... That's the problem. Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh |
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| Posted: Sat Jul 9th, 2016 23:14 |
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TomOC
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Iain wrote:May be good glass Robert but the weight of the 400 F2.8 would be enough to make me part with it. The 300, that would be a different story. The weight is so much more severe once you get a bit used to carrying around a Fuji most of the time. That can really spoil you !
____________________ Tom O'Connell -Lots of people talk to animals.... Not very many listen, though.... That's the problem. Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh |
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| Posted: Sat Jul 9th, 2016 23:15 |
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TomOC
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Eric wrote:Robert wrote: +1
____________________ Tom O'Connell -Lots of people talk to animals.... Not very many listen, though.... That's the problem. Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh |
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| Posted: Sun Jul 10th, 2016 04:31 |
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Robert
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TomOC wrote:Iain wrote: My 'brand loyalty' and the fact I am locked into one system prevents me from experimenting with alternatives. I am hard pressed to afford one set of gear, two sets would be completely out of reach. At my last visit to car racing, one lad had what I think was a Sony... It was a tiny camera, the lad told me it was full frame, he uses it almost exclusively for video. He had a Pele? case full of very fast, top Canon lenses which he uses on the Sony via an adaptor. It appeared to be mirrorless, basically a sensor on the back of the lens. In the building/construction trade lightweight gear is useless/rubbish. I have grown accustomed to working with heavy gear all my life and consider the D3 and a 2.8 Nikkor to be featherweight in comparison with a 90Lb rock drill leaping about trying to do it's own thing, or lifting a half ton beam in by hand on my own. I accept it can get a bit heavy after walking 9 miles back and forth all day round a circuit but it keeps me fit, some people pay thousands of £ to lift weights in a gym, or ride a bike bolted to the floor, which I see as about as pointless as it gets.
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| Posted: Sun Jul 10th, 2016 09:41 |
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jk
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I just bought a Fuji X30 as it better than my Nikon as a pocket/walk around camera. I do find that we need to always compromise with image quality, getting the shot and also not worrying overly on using the best or heavy gear all the time. Sometimes just getting the shot is what is required.
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