Sootchucker
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HI all. Looking for some advice please. I have a Nikon 24-120 F4 VR (which I've owned since new about 3 years now), and to be honest I haven't used for some time.
Well the other day I decided to travel with just my ungripped Nikon D810 body and this lens as a walkabout package. As light levels were fairly dim (circa 1/80-1/125 sec @ F5.6) I had the VR switch on and in VR "Normal Mode". When I checked the images afterwards, most were slightly soft (and some really soft).
I put this down to me never AF fine tuning the lens on this body, which I subsequently did using the Reikan Focal software. I ended up with a value of -3 at the 24mm end and -5 at the 120 end, so I set to -4 as an overall figure. I then took some more shots (with VR off and on a Tripod) and all images were tack sharp - happy days - or so I thought.
Yesterday, I took the same combination out, and to my surprise, they were soft again. I couldn't' understand this, and inadvertently then turned the VR switch off and boom !! all images were tack sharp again ? I repeated, shooting with VR on and VR off with the same shots, and even at lowish shutter speeds (1/60-1/80 sec), all the shots with VR off were noticeably sharper then with VR off ?
Anyone else experienced this before ?
Well the other day I decided to travel with just my ungripped Nikon D810 body and this lens as a walkabout package. As light levels were fairly dim (circa 1/80-1/125 sec @ F5.6) I had the VR switch on and in VR "Normal Mode". When I checked the images afterwards, most were slightly soft (and some really soft).
I put this down to me never AF fine tuning the lens on this body, which I subsequently did using the Reikan Focal software. I ended up with a value of -3 at the 24mm end and -5 at the 120 end, so I set to -4 as an overall figure. I then took some more shots (with VR off and on a Tripod) and all images were tack sharp - happy days - or so I thought.
Yesterday, I took the same combination out, and to my surprise, they were soft again. I couldn't' understand this, and inadvertently then turned the VR switch off and boom !! all images were tack sharp again ? I repeated, shooting with VR on and VR off with the same shots, and even at lowish shutter speeds (1/60-1/80 sec), all the shots with VR off were noticeably sharper then with VR off ?
Anyone else experienced this before ?
