Was hiking around a marsh with my 500/4E FL on a monopod on my shoulder over the weekend. Several times I forgot to turn off the camera before slinging it on my shoulder and now the VR is making a noticeably more audible sound than before
This is most pronounced when I rock the body around the long axis of the lens. Did I manage to fry it? I am not noticing an immediate impact on performance in the pics, but they were mostly birds at 1/2000s and faster. Will do some hand holding tests at 1/100-1/200s later today.
It should not unless the lens is actually in the swamp, then all bets are off. The VR should turn off when the camera goes to sleep. I leave cameras on in safari vehicles for example that can be bumpy. I don't turn anything off.
EB-1 wrote:
It should not unless the lens is actually in the swamp, then all bets are off. The VR should turn off when the camera goes to sleep. I leave cameras on in safari vehicles for example that can be bumpy. I don't turn anything off.
EBH
Hah, no, the lens was safe and dry all the time.
My timeout is set to 5 min so when I am waiting for a bird to do something I don't have to wake it up every minute or so. I just tested the VR and it works fine, despite making noticeably louder noises, as if something is loose and knocked around.
Bought the lens used a month or two ago so not quite sure what is normal. I remember the 80-400 being fairly noisy too.
While investigating further I removed the 1.7x TC that I was using over the weekend and tested the lens bare.... No unusual VR noise. Put a 1.4x TC on... no noise. Put the 1.7x back... no noise. I cleaned the contacts on the TC just in case and will keep an eye on it.
