Steve Walker Offline Upload & Sell: Off
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First, congratulations. It is certainly a great experience to be able to shoot with a 600.
As others have said, an appropriate tripod with a full gimble head will make your life easier and dramatically increase the keeper rate. I have shot mine hand held on quite a few occasions when there was not sufficient time to get the tripod set up. But, I shoot it on the tripod well over 90% of the time.
I did the micro adjust exercise and found that mine did not require any adjustment (on a D700).
The most counterintuitive thing for me was the idea that you really need to be making contact with the lens and camera when the shutter fires. Google "long lens technique" and you will find out more than you might want to know.
Practice was quite important for me. It is amazing how this lens will uncover any subtle flaw in technique. With the proper technique, it is razor sharp at all apertures and distances.
I find that mine takes the 1.4 extender very well and the 1.7 extender quite well. The 1.7 is spectacular at close distances (when shooting smaller critters), but I seem to get results that are not quite as good at longer distances. This is probably due more to atmospherics than to any optical issues with the extender.
Visit the N&W forum regularly and post some pictures when you get a chance.
Good luck.
Steve
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