I drove to Tiger Creek Preserve on Saturday morning and never even got my gear out. There were hundreds of Partridge Pea blossoms, but all were spent and falling apart. I continued on to Ridge Audubon Center and photographed what I think is Southeastern Sunflower. This morning — Sunday 23 AUGUST 2020 — I worked several cranes from Palmetto Drive which abuts North Field. We have had so much rain here that I wouldn’t dare even think about driving on the grass fields right now. The lake is higher than I have ever seen and there are large puddles all along Park Avenue, the main drag that heads down to the lake. <\/p>\n
Well more than half of the price-slashed Used Gear stuff listed in yesterday’s blog post sold or have a sale pending. Including and especially Anita North’s Nikon 600 VR. There are still some great buys there. <\/p>\n
Be sure to read down to the end to find the link to Arash Hazeghi’s article in which he details the many reasons that the SONY a9ii AF system is far superior to anything in a Nikon or Canon dSLR …<\/p>\n
After hearing so many good things about the Canon EOS R5 and researching the RF 100-500 lens, I am trying to arrange a loan so that I can see for myself. B&H affiliates are eligible to loan photography gear for evaluation purposes. My good friend Izzy thinks that he can arrange it. <\/p>\n
Yesterday on the phone with a used gear buyer I mentioned that I would be trying to get my hands on the R5\/RF 100-500 rig. He asked if I thought that I might switch back. I only chuckled … <\/p>\n
\n| \n | This image was created at Bolsa Chica by Arash Hazeghi with the handheld Sony FE 200-600mm f\/5.6-6.3 G OSS lens<\/a> (at 400mm) and the blazingly fast AF King, the Sony Alpha a9 II Mirrorless Digital camera body. <\/a> ISO 400: 1\/4000 sec. at f\/5.6. <\/p>\n Image courtesy of and copyright 2020: Arash Hazeghi<\/p>\n |