Recent content by munchycarrot

Brilliant argument, you’re helping me to cement things into my head a bit more so thanks for posting what I couldn’t put into words properly to myself :D thanks to all the above... a good discussion is always the best place to start. You’ve all helped hugely (y)

Ive been testing a range of high ISO’s with a clean background and with a bit of noise removal and careful not to zoom beyond silly on my iPad, results are crazy. I think I was too quick to dismiss the tc and not even try when the light had dipped a bit. I will save for a longer lens which...

It was too big for me to really enjoy it. Suffered a lot with a neck problem but thankfully that’s improved with my change of job last year. Your shots of the WTSE are amazing

I’ve just posted a pic of the neighbours black lab on here (scroll down a bit) shot at 1000 iso but no converter (Disproves the poor performance theory lol) I’ve deleted any shots I had taken with the tc at high iso so I’m going to take some test shots at some point while I have a few days off...

Stunning shots. Thanks for sharing. I’m going to try some more well thought out shots and concentrate on the garden birds we have as they’re a great test. I’ve started to take them for granted even though I love my shots I‘ve got with the outside set up.

Thanks all, much appreciate the food for thought. It’s making me think about me and my attitude towards the gear I have. I love the D500 and the 300pf. I think I am going to change the way I take shots and edit to how I used to when I first got this set up. I’ve let bad habits creep in and...

This - I think my issue is that I’ve used the tc and got poor results for all sorts of reasons and then dismissed it. Just been going over images in LR and from what I already knew (I crop too much) I never use NR and am zooming in to more than 100% to crit the images. I’ve gotten lazy too...

Hi all, thank for posting this Ben while I‘ve been at work. I’m the picky person Ben talks about :) thanks for the suggestion Gramps, long time no see :wave: The 300pf is amazing, I don’t like the tc as the af is sluggish and imo degrades the quality too much. I’m also disappointed with the...

Little update... The repairers are still awaiting parts from Nikon so Hdew said it's gone on long enough and a new one is en route (y) Wouldn't have found this so quick if it wasn't for the FoCal software

Haha, good to know tho :)

Sent off just now to a company in Glasgow... hopefully it won't take too long :) Edit nearly 2 weeks on (28th)... still waiting. They couldn't find a fault, then they retested & found that it needed recalibrating, now the report is they've found something that they're not sure about so they...

Just to add, I think subject distance are coming into play so further reinforces the misalignment, been looking at charts of misaligned glass vs perfect and the results are echoing mine. Ben has spent pretty much the whole day since 8am reading, testing and more testing with me. We just had a...

We have spent the whole day testing and re testing on Bens super duper Feisol legs, his body, my body and I fear it does need to go back. Not the end of the world and it will be interesting to see what Nikon repairers have to say too. It's a shame coz that 'new gear out of the box' feeling...

Tested on a tripod with the suggested -14 and with 0 and the minus 14 is worse if anything. I'm at a complete loss with it. The astigmatism % says it's higher than average and the lens elements may be misaligned [emoji53] Tested on another D500 body and results are coming back the same (-14...

Tested on a different body and get the same results pretty much. Had camera on a tripod and took pics with the suggested -14 on and off and seem sharper when it's back to 0. Also says the astigmatism % is higher than average and lens elements could be misaligned... so stressful. I'm at a...