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Dogbytes In reply to chriseastmids [2019-05-07 05:39:30 +0000 UTC]

Thanks Chris. All down to the camera, I’m afraid! I upgraded to the D850 mainly for its ability to track focus better than the D610 - and it does! This was from a sequence eight shots as Nippa approached flat out. In two of the shots, if I’m pixel-peeping, her eyes are a bit soft (could have been my tracking abilities rather than the camera’s. It is mind-bogglingly capable (I no longer have any excuses!). Shot with the new 70-200/2.8 which helps too.

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chriseastmids In reply to Dogbytes [2019-05-07 20:16:46 +0000 UTC]

well it works so well, excellent in fact, so i look forward to seeing more

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Dogbytes In reply to chriseastmids [2019-05-10 06:01:34 +0000 UTC]

I know I’ve said it before, Chris, but for me at least the equipment does make a difference. I do like to go out with confidence that it is able to reflect what I see before me. I want to capture what I see before me and then work on it from that point - I don’t want to capture an image and then have to work on it just to get it to the point of what was in front of me when I saw it. Does that make sense?
Anyway, I am very happy with this set-up and, hopefully, it’ll last me another four or five years. I bought it second hand (well, 800 shutter clicks, so nearly new) but it was a considerable investment to me. Also I didn’t want to spend ‘wages money’ to buy it so I sold a lot of stuff, including things I really liked or had considerable sentimental attachment to - so it isn’t just a box of electronics that I swapped some spare cash for.
It has also inspired me in a different way - I now feel that it is too much money to have purely as a hobby, so I’m going to try to make some money out of it. We’ll see what happens!

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chriseastmids In reply to Dogbytes [2019-05-10 12:48:07 +0000 UTC]

John i truely understand, if we look back at photographers the equipment we have now is so complicated and so costly, it really is about the way the photographer see's and records what they see, you control very little apart from how you frame (and even that you can only control in a split second as most scenes change constantly) and how you see and want to tell the story, it really is down to the photographer and not the equipment, i wish you all the best in what you want to achieve

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