Posted by Paul Rycraft on February 5, 2007 at 10:30 AM
managed to get to Slimbridge Saturday, trying to get to grips with new kit.
D200
70-200 VR
f4.0
iso 200
1/1600
Need to get to grips with the metering as I have so many shots with blown highlights.
Posted by Nick Railton on February 5, 2007 at 10:56 AM
Hi Paul,
The pics not bad but I would stop down a bit, I have found that f/5.6 is best/sharpest for this lens, also I am not sure how you have setup in camera but if you are shooting jpg try setting in camera as follows.
Colour Mode III
Sharpening +1
You could probably set ISO to 400
I never really had a problem with blown highlights with the D200, I could leave on matrix metering all day and never needed to adjust ev + or - . I guess to be be sure your are not getting blown highlights set - EV by the histogram and highlight display.
Discussion
1 repliesD200
70-200 VR
f4.0
iso 200
1/1600
Need to get to grips with the metering as I have so many shots with blown highlights.
The pics not bad but I would stop down a bit, I have found that f/5.6 is best/sharpest for this lens, also I am not sure how you have setup in camera but if you are shooting jpg try setting in camera as follows.
Colour Mode III
Sharpening +1
You could probably set ISO to 400
I never really had a problem with blown highlights with the D200, I could leave on matrix metering all day and never needed to adjust ev + or - . I guess to be be sure your are not getting blown highlights set - EV by the histogram and highlight display.
Hope This Helps
Cheers
Nick