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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Neil Morris" data-source="post: 1898579" data-attributes="member: 71873">Rosie,Forgive me. It's been ages. I'm glad you're finding your way around your camera and lens. I'm sticking to my guns re the original contrast issue - in low light the 400 DO does seem to produce lower contrast, rather greyer, pictures than other lenses. However, in the sunshine, I really can't fault it. In fact my main problem is that either the lens or my EOS 7D body (or both) seem to drop focus almost every other shot. Frustratingly, I am getting out of focus shots in between crisp shots. When trying to test the AF on even a static printed grid, and also on a test grid on-screen, it often failed to find focus despite there being plenty of contrast in the grid for the AF system to latch onto. It's proving inconsistent and difficult to pin down. I've just punched in a new suite of settings for C1, C2 and C3 modes on the 7D and I attached a sheet describing these. Give me a little more time and I'll let you know if these are proving any more successful than my previous settings. I'd welcome your comments, and anyone else's, on these or other settings that have been proved to perform well for wildlife photography.As for Woking, it's a pleasant enough part of the country but a little tame for birding. Some very goods heaths but little else. These days, I'm acutely conscious of burning too many carbons by zipping all over the place in a car (pretty much given up twitching!) and I tend to reserve my longer journeys for monthly gulling visits to the Thames Estuary. We do have some good butterfly and dragonfly sites nearby, but I haven't really connected with any good weather yet this year.Hope you continue to enjoy your rig. All the best, Neil</blockquote>

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