5th most common bird in Germany on the last NABU hour of garden birds citizen science survey from two weeks ago: https://www.nabu.de/tiere-und-pflanzen/aktionen-und-projekte/stunde-der-gartenvoegel/ergebnisse/15767.html

The microwave excites the water molecules, so the temperature is unlikely to exceed the temperature of boiling water significantly which is likely fine for the plastic used.

It’s just the wrong question to ask - he is likely using a bunch of different lenses between his portraits, deciding based on the circumstances on what to use. It’s not the lens which makes the picture, it’s the photographer carefully framing the scene and setting the exposure parameters. The same way the recipe execution is much more important than the pot the chef used. The lens is just one instruction of the recipe.

Do you ask the chef in a restaurant what brand of pots he uses to create the delicious meal?

Should become much better once the Fehmarnbelt tunnel is completed.

That crap is taken 1:1 from the airline business model though…

This has nothing to do with Brexit and everything to do with the UK never having been part of Schengen.

Don’t use flash for wildlife, it’s very unkind to your subject.

Don’t give stupid advice to people on the internet you have no idea of what their capabilities are. You don’t want to be responsible for a house burning down because they try to replicate your advice.

No, there is no safe way for you to do so if you need to ask, lithium batteries need specific charging circuitry otherwise they will burn on you. However, the circuitry needed isn’t expensive and Amazon has many NP-60 chargers available for very reasonable prices.

It’s both.

Cameras and lenses are expensive because phones killed the low end market, there is not enough economy of scale to sustain cheap cameras remaining. Phones are cheap because they are produced in massive numbers.

Why are cameras more expensive then phones? Sensor size, the amount of glass needed for large sensor lenses, the precision required, and the electronics needed, while the camera doesn’t offer you a general purpose MP3 and Video Player it still needs the functionality to be able to record and play back video on top of the image processing pipeline used for recording.

Screw drive AF is anyway mediocre at best, if the adapter would have been slower there would have been very little complaints, certainly less then for not including the feature.

Unlikely that there is an output limit issue, the motors in non-screw driven lenses also draw current.

Possible? Yes, there is nothing mechanically or electronically preventing adding an additional motor to a version of the adapter. Likely? Don‘t think so, Nikon isn’t earning money on people using old lenses.

I would rather bet on third parties doing it.

Too bad Nikon doesn’t build a lighter body with the same capabilities as the Z9…

Generally I wouldn’t jump systems because the gras looks greener on the other side unless you really like burning money. And you will always second guess your choice because the A7RV doesn’t have the quasi rolling shutter free readout of the stacked Z9/Z8 sensor. If the weight issue really bugs you it can be fixed with the Z8 and the lens argument becomes less and less relevant as third parties ramp up their Z lineup.

Fine powder = lots of surface area = lots of oxygen contact -> powder explosion married to a metal fire.

No.

Turns out: there was a „Handbook of the Birds of the World“ in 17 volumes… only available used nowadays and ridiculously expensive.

Whole world would be a multi volume encyclopedia, but if there would be such a comprehensive work I would totally buy it.

Have fun :)

Single point for grabbing focus first, 153 points covering the full sensor! for 3d tracking the locked on bird.

This old world guy bought the Peterson „Field Guide to Birds of North America“ for a US trip - not as good as my beloved Svensson for Europe but I was happy with it.

With an 18mm: 0%. With an 800mm: 100%

What are you doing on Reddit, go out and take pictures 😜 have fun!