Well I had a great weekend taking pics with the D7100 and 300mm f4. So far I am really happy with the combo and have been getting some decent pics. Here is just a preview of some of the pics I will be posting this week as I edit through the rest of them. Enjoy. CC always welcomed. Thanks for looking!!!
1. Osprey

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3. Sandhill cranes by my pond in the early morning light.

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6. Great Egret

7. Great Blue Heron

8. Red shouldered hawk (taken off my back deck with horrible light)

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10. Wood storks in my pasture sucking down a crayfish

11. Down the hatch is goes

12. Drake Mottled duck

13. Tri-colored heron on the stalk

14. Tri-colored heron with the minnow flip

15. Juvenile Little blue that hasn't changes colors yet

16. Killdeer pretending its hurt to distract me from its nest

17. Common Moorhen

18. White Ibis

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20. Mourning Dove

21. Least Sandpiper

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I'm curious what setting you have for the in-camera sharpening, and if you add sharpening during post?
Sure wish I had a 300.
Thanks! I have the camera set to 7 in the in camera settings and I add some in LR4 if I need to. Most of the time they are plenty sharp. The 300 sure is sweet for the price. I don't have any complains about it so far.
Care to comment on the D7100? Particularly: file size, buffer, burst rate and write speed.
So far I am really liking the 7100. I have had it for 2 weeks this Friday and I have put close to 2000 clicks on it so far. I am coming from a D300 so that is what I am comparing it to. The AF seems to be better on the 7100 and image quality blows the D300 away. The file sizes are about 12-14mb shooting in JPEG large and fine. I get 6 fps in continuous high and am using the sandisk 95mb/s card so the write speed is fast and it has no problem clearing the buffer. I haven't tried it in raw so I can't comment on that. So far no complaints from me.