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Wildlife Examples

See commentary on the Examples 1 page for the approach to image processing. See At the Zoo with the 200 f/2 for more wildlife examples.

Is the D3x a wildlife camera? I wouldn’t have thought so, but after shooting it for a day, I’m persuaded that the D3x is an excellent choice (ignoring ultrafast frame-rate requirements). The ability to crop from 24.4MP is a huge plus.

This page contains mostly wildlife images, focused manually and handheld, sometimes at too-low shutter speeds. Critical sharpness is not the goal here (these are “real” images taken in slippery conditions), though most are reasonably sharp. Light was mostly flat with slight directionality, late on a December 27 day near Pescadero, CA.

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Diglloyd DAP is DSLR-oriented, but also contains workflow and other topics. Much of the focus is on Canon and Nikon but also Pentax and Pentax medium format.

Special emphasis is placed on lens evaluation, focusing on Canon and Nikon and Sigma lenses, but with a few others like Rokinon/Samyang.

  • Make better images by learning how to get the best results right away.
  • Save money by choosing the right lens for your needs the first time, particularly some of the new Sigma Art lenses vs Nikon and Canon.
  • Workflow discusses image organization, raw conversion and post processing. Many examples show processing parameters for direct insight into how the image was converted.
  • Jaw-dropping image quality found nowhere else utilizing Retina-grade images up to full camera resolution, plus large crops [past 2 years or so].
  • Real world examples with insights found nowhere else. Make sharper images just by understanding lens behavior you won’t read about elsewhere.
  • Aperture series from wide open through stopped down, showing the full range of lens performance and bokeh.
  • Optical quality analysis of field curvature, focus shift, sharpness, flare, distortion, and performance in the field.

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Harbor Seals, Phoca Vitulina
D3x + Voigtlander 180/4 APO macro, 1/320 sec @ f/8, ISO 800, handheld, manual focus

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