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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kb57" data-source="post: 3414566" data-attributes="member: 133932">After all my deliberations, last saturday morning found me visiting a colleague who lived dangerously close to a camera shop - London Camera Exchange in Gosforth (Newcastle on Tyne).  I went in to have a look at the 300 f4 PF, not expecting them to also have a D7200 in stock...once I got them in my hands I was hooked.  Haven't had much opportunity to get out in the field since weather was really bad here at the weekend, but what I've seen so far has blown me away, coming as I did from a bridge camera.I held back on the TC1.4 until at least my next paycheque - I know reach will be an issue, but for now 450mm 35mill equivalent isn't so bad coming from a 600mm equivalent small-sensor camera, coupled with much better cropping ability.  The following House Sparrow and Woodpigeon pics won't win any prizes, but were taken in poor light in the garden, and cropped down quite heavily.  Practising with different settings on the coots at my work pond, but they'd contravene BirdForum's nest ban.  Thanks everyone, this has been an instructive debate - I think this will work for me, but others will draw different and equally legitimate conclusions about what works for them.</blockquote>