G'day!
This weekend I'm renting a D3x out for a test drive (and 12-24, 24-70, 85mm, and 70-200). I haven't used a Nikon since my F2, and would just like your recommendation for focus settings. I've downloaded the PDF manual as the dang rental outfit won't send the manual along with the camera, and won't have much time to experiment before:
1) Friday night high school football game for some parent friends. Their kid is ranked #1 linebacker in the state and keeps catching interceptions. I figure focus on continuous-servo, but how about 9-point Dynamic Area AF? Or do I want Single-Point AF? There will often be bodies in the foreground and I'll have to keep the subject in the frame center and crop away later for artistic framing. It'll probably be with the 70-200/f2.8.
Over the other shoulder will be slung the usual Canon + 200mm/f2 so I won't be like a fish out of water.
2) Flyfishing weekend on the Encampment & N. Platte Rivers near Saratoga Wyoming, both drift boat and wading with some veteran flyfishers. The money shot I'd like is the trout rising out of the water with the background compressed via telephoto. Focusing is probably not too different from shooting the football game. I also want night starlit sky + hills + camp shots.
Thanks, Ralph