Day 208—Winsome, Lose Some

This is Winsome, one of two Ron Smith memorial roses, this one given to me by my friends Royetta and Cherry after Ron died. It has remained healthy and beautiful after five years. My blog title today is just because of my unsuccessful efforts to photograph the hummingbird again this afternoon; he was tantalizingly close — I heard him scolding me while he was hidden away in the branches of the pear tree — but he never appeared while I was outside so when I noticed a couple of buds opening on Winsome, which is a miniature rose, it occurred to me that I should try out the DX crop factor on my D800. I took the first shot with the image area set to FX as it usually is and the second with it set at DX which has a crop factor on my camera of 1.5. So I guess technically all was not lost; I learned something else about my new camera. Using the crop factor, the images appear closer because the files are in essence cropped in camera; these files are half the size as when I set the camera at full FX with virtually no loss in quality. What I see in the view finder is the entire scene that would be shot if the camera were in FX mode but with a crop mark showing the borders of the cropped shot.

Focal Length 300mm
ISO 100
f/5.6
1/320
WB Fine Weather
SOOC

Focal Length 300mm (450mm in DX)
f/5.6
1/320
WB Fine Weather
SOOC