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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chris Mayne" data-source="post: 1359828" data-attributes="member: 59513">Well, lens number 3 turned up last Friday, and then East Anglia was plunged into gloomy cloud, fog and rain!  Finally got out yesterday to the Norfolk coast, and the lens worked fine all day *phew*.  In fact I'm really pleased with the results, the IQ is just as I was expecting.  Just need to go through the 600+ shots now!  I'll post some in the gallery when I get them sorted.I was expecting to need the 1.4x TC on permanently, but often I was finding 700mm just too much.Oh, and the 30m shooting distance I mentioned previously - I was just challenging the lens really.  Not my intended distance for normal work, but its good to know that the 500 will work at a distance if I am out and about without a scope an need a reasonable shot of something further away (I started my bird photography with a digiscoping set-up).Chris</blockquote>