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My new Nikon d5500 arrived Friday evening. I had received the Nikkor 70-300 AF-S VR-II lens a few days previously from Joel.

This was just in time for the final day of my 13 YO Grand Daughter's softball season on Saturday.

I really am not much of a photographer. I was concerned with exposure settings. So I just set the camera to sport mode and let it control everything but the zoom.

To say that I am satisfied is an understatement. I am thrilled!

This is Abbey at the end of her fifth game in two days. She pitched all but two innings of the entire series, against girls as old as 16.

300 mm, ISO 400, 1/1600 sec, f/5.6 (notice the shimmer around the subject. I am shooting through a chain link fence)





70 mm, ISO 400. 1/1000 sec, F/4.5
Here's Abbey adding another point to the scoreboard. And I don't know where the chain link fence went. It was in front of me when I shot the photos!










I thought the Fuji HS-20 was a decent camera. But I could not have caught these memories with the Fuji.