JJphoto


I rented the 500 from Lensrentals.com and really hated to ship it back.....it's a VERY NICE piece of gear, I would love toone of my ownbut I'll have to wait awhile. (I'm hopeful the new 600 will weigh in like the current 500)


BTW....you might know this already....those camera settings were derived by using the Sunny 16 Rule... a neat little trickto help us expose the whites on a sunny day :


Start with f/16 ISO 200 1/200 sec then any combination that gives the same amount of exposure will work fora sunny day.


for example : if you drop the f stop to f/11 that will let in twice as much light so you have to change the shutter to 1/400 or reduce the iso one stop,


you can calculate any permutation needed to get the settings necessary for the shots you are making. You have to keep checking the histogram as the light changes just to verify that the whites aren't being blown out.


if you suddenly see a dark colored bird or an all whte bird a little quick exposure compensation may be needed but those basic rules work very well.


Joel