Neil,
Any chances to try it on your D3s?
I haven't yet Jason. I'll try it next week with the D810 and D3s. Off to Beijing today for a few days.
Neil.
Neil,
Any chances to try it on your D3s?
Great captures Neil. Especially the bulbul.
Paul
Had the lens for just over a week and the TCE14III converter even less and of course we've had pretty rubbish weather since then. I've also been keen to find out how the lens gets on with the converter and see if it would be reasonable to leave the converter on most of the time during an upcoming holiday, so it has been on the lens all the time.
Finally had a bit of light today but not a huge variety of birds to try and get shots of. The combo has some limitations but fortunately image quality isn't one of them, the Redshank, Mallard and Long-tailed Tit were all shot wide open, the Redshank and Long-tailed Tit at 700mm the Mallard at 600mm. The main drawback is the less than snappy autofocus and intermittent focus-lock, even on a contrasty subject. However, if you can live with this and basically work around it I think this combo is fantastic as a lightweight and portable way to get to 700mm.
Not really had the conditions to try and get any bif shots although the gull isn't too bad and that's at 700mm. The drawbacks above obviously make it a little bit hit and miss but I think in good light and a good contrasty subject it would be okay - time will tell.
Pete
I got my repaired D810 back yesterday to took it out on the 200-500/5.6 today. It seemed to AF a tad faster than the D7200 in good light but not much in it. I love having the zoom as birds can come quite close sometimes.
Neil.
Lamma Island,
Hong Kong,
25th November 2015
first ever non Olympus great i had (in 30 years) and this is what i got in my first day.
focal length 380 mm.
f 5.6 at 1/1250 sec
iso 320
WB manual 5200K
too bad the focus seem to be better on the belly. hope i can get better results next time.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ammadoux/23322376906/in/dateposted-public/
super details Neil.
this is full frame, not very happy as the focus was more on the wing, still need to learn how to control the heavy lens more.