TM - was there a pattern to the 25% missed focus shots? I mean did they share a common issue -- going away, moving toward you. going left or right or the 2nd and 3rd shor of a sequence?
PennsyBill wrote:
TM - was there a pattern to the 25% missed focus shots? I mean did they share a common issue -- going away, moving toward you. going left or right or the 2nd and 3rd shor of a sequence?
No rhyme or reason to the misses, Bill...routine shots with my other lenses. Light was starting to fade
but SS was plenty fast/OS off...no reason for the OOF shots. Had a gorgeous redhead taking the 3rd barrel
thru rays of last light...hair flyin'/mane flyin'...couldn't wait to pull 'em up. Nada. Let me down. We're done.
Hey Trench sorry to hear Miss Siggy was a miss... sometimes literally. Seems they can't shake the focus consistency issues of the previous 120-300, 300, and 100-300's. All incredible teases in the end to many people. Did you find the issue could be related to focus-recompose-refocus issues? Some in the older model "know" were saying that with the tele Siggy's you had to refocus a shot any time you moved the zoom ring, whereas the Nikkors could hold the focus through zooming if you follow me.
I hear ya though... no matter how capable a lens is optically it doesn't mean a hill of beans to an action/sports shooter if you can't count on it every time you need it. Thanks for the test drive though!!
When you know you just nailed it and the shot isn't up to what you know it should have been, you either need to get rid of the lens or it will ruin your confidence. You did the right thing.
Light was starting to fade