Oh NOOOOO Laura! Ouch! Hope nothing else was hurt. It is not funny trying to negotiate life as an unpracticed lefty!! Hope you feel better and get well soon!!!
Thanks Mary. Fortunately I had some experience after rotator cuff surgery almost 8 years ago, but no gripping is new. Trying to figure out how to cook something for breakfast at the moment.
mjgphotoz wrote:
Oh NOOOOO Laura! Ouch! Hope nothing else was hurt. It is not funny trying to negotiate life as an unpracticed lefty!! Hope you feel better and get well soon!!!
Thanks everyone! Yes it could have been worse, if I had hit concrete instead of grass. I just hope I don't lose my job, as I am in the 90 day probationary period, and obviously unable to perform my duties.
gbohannon wrote:
Hey gang. Trying to remember if anyone on here is shooting with a D850. Trying to find out how well they focus with manual focus glass. Asking for a friend
George
Hi, George. I've been using a D850 for a few months. I came from the D800, which I used since 2012.
For me, the optical viewfinder is somewhat improved and a little easier to use with MF lenses. It has 100% coverage and a bit higher magnification (.75 vs .7) than the D800 and D810.
The biggest improvement is the live view with focus peaking. Focusing off a tripod with MF glass (which I do a lot) is much easier with the D850 than the D800.
I wasn't ready to move to an all EVF camera (yet) so the combination of an improved optical finder with much-improved live view works for me.
The gear reviews at Imaging Resource are usually good. Here's a link to their D850 review.
Regarding focusing using the D850 I had a chance to evaluate a 200-500mm f/5.6 lens with 'unusual' characteristics recently. It was quite sharp at 200 and 500mm up to 100 feet, and rapidly declined at distance. Close intermediate focal length settings were abysmal, 300mm and 400mm were mush.
While investigating this performance I used the the D850 on a massive tripod with electronic front shutter, and had lots of opportunity to use different focusing methods. I found that the focus peaking had 3 sensitivity settings and even the narrowist was more accepting of out of focus conditions compared to my old splitting the visual difference method.
I used a road map target with a mirror to insure perpendicularity, and also tested 4 135mm lenses, a 135mm f/2 AI-S, a 135mm f/2 DC, 135mm f/2.8 and a 135mm f/3.5. When focusing both of the f/2 lenses my results were as good or better using the visual method.
I found you can split the focus positions use focus peaking by selecting a setting half way between turning on and off red the red peaking settings too and this agreed with my visual focus judging. I do wish there was an even narrower setting for focuc peaking, maybe next model?
It is not funny trying to negotiate life as an unpracticed lefty!! Hope you feel better and get well soon!!! 
