{"id":37616,"date":"2023-03-02T11:30:45","date_gmt":"2023-03-02T18:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/?p=37616"},"modified":"2023-03-02T11:31:44","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T18:31:44","slug":"nikon-d800-cropping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2023\/03\/02\/nikon-d800-cropping\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikon D800 cropping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>1,000mm?  Hand held?  No prob.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Cattail fields are a favorite perching palace for male redwinged blackbirds. (The blah-looking females keep a far lower profile).<\/p>\n<p>The birds are fairly shy and while it&#8217;s a joy to listen to their <a href=https:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/guide\/Red-winged_Blackbird\/ target=_blank>trilling sounds<\/a>, getting close enough for a good picture is something of a challenge.<\/p>\n<p>The long end of 300mm on my 28-300mm AF-S VR Nikkor is really not enough for the job, but it&#8217;s not like I&#8217;m going to lug around 8.4lbs and $12,000 of <a href=https:\/\/www.nikonusa.com\/en\/Nikon-Products\/Product\/Camera-Lenses\/AF-S-NIKKOR-600mm-f%252F4E-FL-ED-VR.html target=_blank>600 f\/4 AF-S Nikkor<\/a> bottle, so I make do with what I have:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/Red-winged blackbird.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n<i>The red winged blackbird on a favorite perch.<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n<p>How best to do that?  Simply crop like crazy, taking benefit of the massive pixel count of the Nikon D800, and handhold with VR for a perfectly sharp result, using center spot AF:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/Red-winged blackbird crop.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n<i>Here&#8217;s the full frame.  Focal length equivalent for the crop is 1,000mm.<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1,000mm? Hand held? No prob. Cattail fields are a favorite perching palace for male redwinged blackbirds. (The blah-looking females keep a far lower profile). The birds are fairly shy and while it&#8217;s a joy to listen to their trilling sounds, getting close enough for a good picture is something of a challenge. The long end &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2023\/03\/02\/nikon-d800-cropping\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nikon D800 cropping<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,82,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nikon-d2xd700d800","category-nikon-lenses","category-photographs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37616"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37621,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37616\/revisions\/37621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}