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There are two thing in what you say Eric,
1. I am now taking even small birds with space around then to give an idea of the environment they live in so I dont need to fil;l the frame.
2.While the D5 would, in my opinion,would give everything you need for wildlife photography there is still the issue that it is FF so you need to get closer for the shots or crop more.
I will try and find the article that I read Iain. It was interesting because it compared D5, D850 and the D500 in wildlife situations. The conclusion was indeed that the advantage of the D500 was obviously the DX multiplier. But when light levels were low, the noise levels of the D500 were a little higher than the D850 but a lot higher than the D5. So in situations where you needed to use high iso you were better off using the D5 and cropping. Interestingly he was of the view that the extra pixels of the D850 didn't best the D5. He felt the old chestnut of 'bigger pixels are better' still came up trumps.
I know it's a different generation but I wonder if you have got a view about the D4 in low light situations compared to the D500? Which wins at say 3000 iso....a D500 or a cropped D4?
PS....I think your cropping is just right. You put the bird in the habitat to give a more interesting image.
Last edited on Sat May 26th, 2018 09:17 by Eric
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