This is going to be fun! I’m bringing out all my trivia along with knowledge to help you create your bag of confidence! KelbyOne Gear Conference is talking camera gear baby for and you’re invited to join the amazing line up of instructors for a great two days! I’m creating two new classes for the conference, What Nikon Camera Should I Get Next and How to Pick the Right Nikon Lenses for You! Yeah, they might sound very Nikon-centric (because that’s what I shoot) but all that I’m covering applies to any and all camera or lens and YOUR photography. We’re going to approach the answers to these questions from YOUR point of photography, not mine! In discussing the basics and applying those to specifics, you will find in my classes and the conference what you need to design and obtain the perfect kit for your photography. Join us, it’s going the be great!

I don’t know if I told you, but when we were shooting Snail Kites, one of my friends shot 49,000 images in 9 hours! That really has made an impression on me. I asked myself if some killer great opportunity came up, would I have enough card space. I asked my IT guy Chuck who crunched the numbers and decided based on what he came up with that I needed backup cards just in case. Shooting stills and video, the Z 9 chews through space writing all those gorgeous files! So for my upcoming time on Kodiak with the Browns, I’m going into the field with twice the normal ProGrade space to record stills and video!

The key to the speed of the Z 9 and its Expeed 7 dual-stream wizardry is the writing speed to the memory and the write speed of the memory. It’s needed for 20fps Raws or 120fps Jpegs stills and 125 minutes 8K video to work so seamlessly. The Z 9 has two CFexpress Type B / XQD or dual slots (do yourself a favor and go CFexpress!). Optimized for high-performance CFexpress Type B cards like those from ProGrade, the dual slots are independent so you can load them with a CFexpress and/or an XQD, different sizes or write speeds. If you want your Z 9 to deliver all the speeds Nikon reports in the Z 9 literature/instruction book, the ProGrade Cobalt 1700 MB/s cards should be inserted.

Up in Yellowstone celebrating spring when, bam, winter came roaring back. Six inches of snow plastered us this morning. While gorgeous, it’s likes, make up your mind!

The US Fish & Wildlife Service has put out this simple and excellent guide, How Best to Enjoy a National Wildlife Refuge. The simple tips are common sense and will aid any photographer planning a trip to any of the hundred refuges we’re so lucky to have available to us. Check it out!