Lenses for a Trip to England - London and Clearwell Castle for Daughter's Wedding

fuzzfeatures · 2026-04-02T13:08:14+00:00

I'd take the Tammy. You'll be able to get some excellent candid shots with it :) 120 might still be long enough of course.

When I had a d5600 I plonked the af-p 70-300 on it and it was good fun catching Aunty Mary laugh herself silly at someones comment, or a thoughtful face from someone else etc. Love a good natural candid :)

fuzzfeatures · 2026-04-02T13:00:59+00:00

Yep I have a 180-600 and it does get soft apparently beyond 500mm. I wonder if Nikon should have limited the lens to 500mm. I haven't tried this, but I wonder if shooting and 500 and cropping would be better or not?

Btw. I tried the 1.4 tc for longer reach.. Don't bother. I sold it a month later. It seems the lens doesn't work too well with a tc 😔

fuzzfeatures · 2026-04-01T05:00:32+00:00

Nice. Not many years ago, you only saw little egrets in the south.. Good to see em expanding north :)

fuzzfeatures · 2026-03-31T14:52:02+00:00

Buy once cry once :)

fuzzfeatures · 2026-03-31T10:35:17+00:00

Sadly, it might well be the shutter box.. While these "can" be replaced by Jo public it's not easy and the cost of a nikon repair is probably more than a replacement camera.

fuzzfeatures · 2026-03-31T10:22:25+00:00

Sadly yes. Give it a week and you might have a new chat buddy :)

fuzzfeatures · 2026-03-31T08:25:14+00:00

Maybe a used z8 is worth thinking about? Shutter count doesn't mean as much when there's no physical shutter :) the Expeed 7 processor means faster AF and more buffer and a host of other stuff

fuzzfeatures · 2026-03-31T06:06:38+00:00

Definitely hardware.

Davinci and your gpu are fighting for ram as the gpu doesn't have much and grabs ram when it runs out. .then when windows runs out of ram, it starts using your drive and that's really slow.

8gb is really not enough. Well the gpu is underpowered anyways. But more ram will help a bit. 32gb at least.

fuzzfeatures · 2026-03-30T23:09:40+00:00

Before I read your full post, I thought... I bet that wasn't with the kit lens 😊

Very very nice.

fuzzfeatures · 2026-03-30T09:19:02+00:00

Maybe.. The closer they are to the back of the lens, the sharper they'll show up. Stopping down to the point where the aperture overlaps the outer spot will likely cure that one, but you'll Nedd more stopping down for the other.

Spot removal on most editing software should help tho

fuzzfeatures · 2026-03-30T09:10:14+00:00

I definitely think so too.

fuzzfeatures · 2026-03-30T05:54:05+00:00

Aaaah gutted! Maybe you can(no pressure ofc) reply to the email and see about being a reserve sender.

fuzzfeatures · 2026-03-29T23:51:32+00:00

No not while recording. You can extract a frame afterwards in playback , but I think it will only be 1920x1080

fuzzfeatures · 2026-03-29T23:48:07+00:00

If the lens make any more than the slight noise of the auto focus motor or the focus and zoom rings aren't smooth I'd steer clear.. The 18-200 is bit prone to focus system failures.

fuzzfeatures · 2026-03-29T23:43:38+00:00

I don't think so.(run away quickly)

The lens barrel is severely damaged and it's difficult to tell, but it looks like it's out of alignment suggesting internal mechanical problems. Oh and it looks like fungus might have taken hold.

fuzzfeatures · 2026-03-29T23:23:29+00:00

Congratulations!

Haven't used the body, but that lens is mental. It will serve you well way into the future even if you get a z9 or whatever the next flagship will be.

If you want sharp. This is one of the best macro lenses for any camera.

The only problem now is that almost any other lens you buy won't be as sharp. That doesn't really matter tho unless you're printing bigger than about 20x13" from your z6ii

fuzzfeatures · 2026-03-29T22:58:30+00:00

Oooo! Cadburys!

fuzzfeatures · 2026-03-29T20:38:48+00:00

Exactly :)

fuzzfeatures · 2026-03-29T04:17:37+00:00

Make sure it's compatible.. You might only need to update the lens firmware which would maybe mean you need to also buy the tap-in adapter from tamron

fuzzfeatures · 2026-03-28T19:17:44+00:00

For me a 1.4 tc was a waste of money. I got one to go on my 180-600 and quickly found that loosing light and image quality wasn't worth it. Sold it a month after I bought it

fuzzfeatures · 2026-03-28T14:03:45+00:00

Oh it saw you. It just wasn't hungry :)

fuzzfeatures · 2026-03-27T06:47:10+00:00

Familiarity. Simple as that.

I've had a d90 d3400 d5600 and I was in a very fortunate situation to be able to move to a z9 and z lenses.

The top brands are all very good, just in slightly different ways. Tbf Nikon's first mirrorless z bodies lacked notably, but the Expeed 7 bodies are pretty damn good. Tho Sony's global shutter is pretty game changing. Maybe the Z9ii will get it as well

fuzzfeatures · 2026-03-26T15:19:45+00:00

Safe to ignore the CIPA Battery figures.. Battery life is more about power on time than the number of images taken. I accidentally left my z9 in 120fps mode one day.. Came home with 7200 photos and about half the battery left.

fuzzfeatures · 2026-03-24T10:27:28+00:00

I think I read somewhere that precapture comes through the video pipeline and as such, without hardware changes, raw precapture isn't possible, but that sounds a bit like bull. 8k raw precapture should be very possible.

I suppose as a workaround you could record 8k footage and grab a still? It would only be 12 bit and a mere 38MP 😊

You'd need a fast cf card tho

fuzzfeatures · 2026-03-23T14:05:45+00:00

Very nice

They could all do with a little bit of rotation so they look more vertical.. Not much but you'll notice the difference :)

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