bipock Offline Upload & Sell: Off
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VR was turned off and the focus limiter was set to 6m-Infinity as I knew everything would likely be outside of that range. Lens is new, so I haven't cleaned the contacts.
I sold the 200-400 as I plan to move to a 600 in the next few months. While I could be wrong, I am pretty sure I'm not expecting the same results given that I am shooting with less length. In the situations I experienced yesterday, While the 200-400 and 1.4x would have been almost full coverage, the 80-400 would only have been slightly less and still had plenty of the subject under the AF point to AF. Biggest example was a mallard in full sun on the water swimming and the lens initially hit focus n the head and immediately started jumping.
My second body is a D610 and while it may work better on it, my intent was never to use it there. It will always be on the 7100, or until makes a better crop camera that's where it will be.
Rick, your experience shows what I was thinking of a bad copy. Unfortunately, my store is small and only keeps one copy at a time, so I can't try them side by side. They have sold 3-4 other copies with no reported issues, but none of those users are using it for BIF. Wildlife, yes, but static situations only.
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