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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fozzybear" data-source="post: 1441648" data-attributes="member: 69297">Have just bought a 150-500 today, a big treat to myself after a few rough weeks with a hard time at work and a week of bad headaches (now cleared up... thank God!). Although the weather is pretty rank at the moment and it's difficult to test the lens out, I did take a few shots at my back door. I found the lens is back-focusing a bit but I 'should' be able to correct that with the D300's af fine tuning. Where the focus was there was a pretty reasonable amount of detail though, it seems as though it might be as good as my 70-300VR, which would be fine with me if true. Of course I need to get the AF sorted and put some practice in to work out getting the most from it, from my initial results I need to do some work!It was dingy, raining on and off and pretty blustery but I thought this one didn't come out too bad - was taken at ISO3200, 1/250th at f/11 on a tripod and the left foot is in focus rather than the head (I did focus on the head though - will spend some time playing with AF fine tuning...) but still not bad for all that I thought. Sharpness is much less than my old 300mm prime, but since that lens has awful colour fringing (some of which I cannot correct and looks awful) I'm hoping this will work out ok... especially after spending all that cash on it! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />The second shot is one I took the other day with my Nikon 70-300VR, slightly different angle but not much further away. Cropped in a bit more than the first shot I think though.</blockquote>

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