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What’s Up?<\/h3>\n

I added about 50 images to the Southern Ocean Photography Guide, ordered some warm clothing for my upcoming Japan trip, and answered another zillion e-mails. Swim, core exercises, ice bath, and three healthy meals made for a perfect day. <\/p>\n

Today’s blog post took nearly three hours to assemble, from soup to nuts. <\/p>\n


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The Streak<\/h3>\n

In spite of having been buried by travel, teaching, the exhibit, and several major writing projects for the last two months, today\u2019s blog post marks 86 days in a row with a new educational blog post. Again, please remember to use our B&H links for your major gear purchases. Your doing so is always greatly appreciated. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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B&H <\/h1>\n

B&H was the primary sponsor of my solo, career retrospective, 67-image exhibit at the San Diego Natural History Museum. Thank them (and me, for the work I do on the blog) by clicking on the logo link above to shop for camera bodies and lenses.<\/center><\/p>\n

Selling Your Used Gear Through BIRDS AS ART<\/h3>\n

Selling your used (or like-new) photo gear through the BAA Blog or via a BAA Online Bulletin is a great idea. We charge only a 5% commission. One of the more popular used gear for sale sites charges a minimum of 20%. Plus assorted fees! Yikes. The minimum item price here is $500 (or less for a $25 fee). If you are interested please e-mail<\/a><\/center> with the words Items for Sale Info Request cut and pasted into the Subject line :). Stuff that is priced fairly–I offer free pricing advice, usually sells in no time flat. In the past few months, we have sold just about everything in sight. Do know that prices on some items like the EOS-1D Mark IV, the old Canon 500mm, the EOS-7D, and the original 400mm IS DO lens have been dropping steadily. You can see all current listings by clicking here<\/a> or by clicking on the Used Photo Gear tab on the yellow-orange tab on the right side of the menu bar above. <\/p>\n

Douglas Bolt sold his Tamron SP 150-600mm f\/5-6.3 Di VC USD Zoom lens for Canon in like-new condition for $699, Diane Miller sold her 300mm f\/2.8L IS lens, the old three, for $2899, and Roberta Olenick sold her Canon EOS-1D Mark IV camera body in excellent condition for $1279 USD, all within the last week. I learned last Wednesday that the sale of IPT veteran Brent Bridges’ 300mm f\/2.8L IS lens for $4599 is pending. And I learned last Thursay that Mark Hodsgon’s 70-200mm f\/4L IS lens became pending on the day that it was listed. More recently Walt Thomas sold his used Canon 100mm f\/2.8L IS USM Macro lens in mint condition for $749 and just yesterday Erik Hagstrom sold his Canon EF 24-70mm f\/2.8L II USM lens and Bill Condon sold his Canon 500mm f\/4L IS USM lens in like-new, near-mint condition for the full asking price, $4199, in one day after getting three offers.<\/p>\n

When I sent a follow-up e-mail asking that Bill check the listing, he sent this lovely e-mail in reply:<\/p>\n

Artie, the listing was more than perfect. I had three offers in the first 36 hours and my lens was sold for asking price on the second day! I am grateful for your help: your added words gave true legitimacy to the value of my lens. Thank you, thank you, thank you!<\/em> Bill<\/p>\n

After all the work that I have put into the Used Gear Sales Page, I know how to price the stuff fairly so that it will sell fairly quickly. And for items that I am not familiar with I have taught myself how to come up with solid prices…<\/p>\n

New Listing<\/h3>\n

Nikon D4 dSLR Professional Camera Body<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Sash Dias is offering a used Nikon D4 body in excellent condition for $2399; the body is pristine except for a small rub mark near the mic button. It is a Nikon USA body, has been babied for its entire life, and has less than 30,000 actuations. The sale includes the Nikon D4 body, the front body cap, the original battery and battery charger and insured shipping via USPS Priority Mail. Your item will not ship until your check clears unless other arrangements are made. <\/p>\n

Please contact Sash by e-mail<\/a><\/center>\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad or by phone at 508-439-1097 (Eastern time).<\/p>\n

New Nikon Gear<\/h3>\n

Click here<\/a> for a link to slew of new Nikon stuff. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Nikon’s Two New Flagship DSLRs<\/h3>\n

About ten days ago Nikon introduced two flagship camera bodies, the Nikon D5 DSLR Camera (Dual CompactFlash)<\/a> and the Nikon D5 DSLR Camera (Dual XQD)<\/a>. XQD is a new, faster type of card. <\/p>\n

Canon EOS-1D X II<\/h3>\n

As for me, I can’t wait for the 1D X II to be announced…<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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This is the original image (see photo next) from which this tight crop was created was made on the first morning of the 2015 San Diego IPT with the hand held Canon EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L IS II USM lens<\/a> and the Canon Extender EF 1.4X III<\/a> with the rugged Canon EOS-1D X.<\/a> ISO 400. Evaluative metering +1\/3 stop: 1\/160 sec. at f\/18 in Manual mode was less than ideal. <\/p>\n

Center AF point (by necessity)\/AI Servo Expand\/Rear Focus AF as originally framed was active at the moment of exposure (as is always best when hand holding). Click here<\/a> to see the latest version of the Rear Focus Tutorial. Click on the image to see a larger version. <\/p>\n

Tight crop of Heermann’s Gull with some sort of immature lobster as prey<\/strong><\/h2>\n