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Crop vs Converter
On Wed, 13 Aug 2014 06:07:40 -0700, Savageduck
wrote: On 2014-08-13 12:37:01 +0000, android said: What's the best make do if you cant afford proper fullframe glass? A crop camera or a 1.4 teleconverter. The crop camera gives more speed but a fullframe sensor should give you less noise to compensate for that. I think that a lot people deep into telephoto are interested in that! The 24MP DX sensor on the D7100 @ $1,099 and with 6fps, and reasonable low light performance probably gives you the best value these days. 6fps only for jpg. Shooting raw you fill the buffer after ~3shots and then you're stuck with how fast your card is and it still is the crucial factor even with an Extreme Pro 95MB/sec SD card. Also feels like I went back in time to my D70 as most of the controls are concerned. I am not a great proponent of TCs. Add a Nikkor 70-300mm VRII to the 24MP D7100 and you will have plenty of crop room. Add the new Tamron 150-600mm VC and you have more reach than you could possibly need. One has to evaluate specific TC/lens pairs.I find the TC-14EII behind a first gen 200-400mm f/4 VR to be fine. Depends what type of birds you want to shoot as to how much is enough reach. Hell! with my measly 12MP D300S + the 70-300mm I can still get shots like this: https://db.tt/HrtYe2HG Now try something with about 1/10th or smaller of that wingspan in flight. |
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Crop vs Converter
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On Wed, 13 Aug 2014 06:07:40 -0700, Savageduck wrote: On 2014-08-13 12:37:01 +0000, android said: What's the best make do if you cant afford proper fullframe glass? A crop camera or a 1.4 teleconverter. The crop camera gives more speed but a fullframe sensor should give you less noise to compensate for that. I think that a lot people deep into telephoto are interested in that! The 24MP DX sensor on the D7100 @ $1,099 and with 6fps, and reasonable low light performance probably gives you the best value these days. 6fps only for jpg. Shooting raw you fill the buffer after ~3shots and then you're stuck with how fast your card is and it still is the crucial factor even with an Extreme Pro 95MB/sec SD card. The User Manual says otherwise. For 12-bit NEF and JPEG, 6 frames per second. It slows to only 5 fps with 14-bit NEF. The memory buffer is specified for 6 lossless compressed 14 bit NEF files and 7 lossless compressed 12 bit NEF files. It's pretty hard to argue with that for a 24 MP DX sensor at that price. Also feels like I went back in time to my D70 as most of the controls are concerned. Yes, Nikon always has done a good job on controls. I am not a great proponent of TCs. Add a Nikkor 70-300mm VRII to the 24MP D7100 and you will have plenty of crop room. Add the new Tamron 150-600mm VC and you have more reach than you could possibly need. One has to evaluate specific TC/lens pairs.I find the TC-14EII behind a first gen 200-400mm f/4 VR to be fine. Depends what type of birds you want to shoot as to how much is enough reach. Hell! with my measly 12MP D300S + the 70-300mm I can still get shots like this: https://db.tt/HrtYe2HG Now try something with about 1/10th or smaller of that wingspan in flight. Well, of course that is a different problem. Still, a D7100 will be about the best buy in a camera for that too. -- Floyd L. Davidson http://www.apaflo.com/ Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska) |
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