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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mikenott" data-source="post: 1565800" data-attributes="member: 71182">Thanks for all the replies and apologies for not replying earlier - was on a weeks leave and then working in Tanzania, South Africa, Malawi, Zambia and Mozambique. Not much time for any bird watching but did get 4 hours on the Zambesi watching bee eaters, kingfishers and cormorants..... nice.I had a play yesterday taking into account the various suggestions. I will post some photo's tonoght, but my conclusions were:1. Turning VR (vibration reduction) off made a small, but discernable difference.2. Moving from AF to Macro focus made a BIG difference. For whatever reason the AF function hunts all over the place, but the macro is just about right every time. Only issue is that the pictures are darker and more colour saturated requiring more post-photo processing.3. Anything much above minimum zoom on the camera can deteriorate picture quality significantly. There is a good point at about 50% optical zoom beyond which quality detriorates rapidly.Tried my Canon20D with a 50mm 1.8 lens and got similar results. It was the wrong lens (end of lens focus) but reassured me that the Nikon P6000 was working well. My secondary question is "Does it matter if the scope is in focus? Can the camera adjust for lack of focus in (say) macro mode? and does it matter if you focus with reading/distance glasses on or off?". May be simple questions, but i would appreciate some guidance.Will post some pictures this evening for constructive criticism and (hopefully) some tips!Michael.</blockquote>

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