Walking around with the D3 plus 300/f4 AFS

[Neil]

I've been in Sydney for a week and it was raining there too (It's been drizzling and cold in Hong Kong for over a month now ).
I didn't do much digiscoping as the light wasn't much good so I had the D3 plus Nikon 300/f4 AFS and Nikon 1.4x tele with me most of the time. My Default iso was 1600 and I was hand holding. I didn't use a tripod with this combo the whole week.
Here are a few of the grab shots as I walked around .
Neil

Nikon D3 plus Nikon 300/f4 AFS lens and Nikon 1.4x teleconverter

Sydney,
Australia,
February, 2008

[Outboard]

The first shot looks noisy but the rest are pretty damn fine. Love the Black-shouldered Kite.

[Neil]

The first shot looks noisy but the rest are pretty damn fine. Love the Black-shouldered Kite.

The Black-faced Monarch image (first one) was in particularly poor light under trees so I used iso 6400 . I didn't use any Noiseware-type adjustment but it could be smartened up a bit. Neil.

ps I had even worse light problems with the Bald Eagles in Canada but the iso 6400 got me some images that others couldn't get.

[Helios]

ISO6400 is always going to be noisy, but its pretty amazing that the image is still very usable.