11-28-2015, 09:15 AM
Dave, I disagree with the Tele belongs to Nikon and Canon. Birds in flight are not easy to catch in general and honestly I don't care wether keepers come from DSLR or mirrorless systems. There's no guarantee in higher keeper rates for me, using Nikon and having only a 300/4 + 1.7 TC. Lack of practise, sure, but in strong winds like here in Wales birds have to adapt to it. Very difficult to predict.
And why didn't I take the 150-600 with me? Beside the additional weight the main reason was: I couldn't finish the AFMA for it. With and without TC 1.4 there are 32 combinations of focus distance and focal length. I finished most of them, but at infinity things get tricky. Targets in 1km distance won't do for infinity. I need clear sky, it was raining.
Why AFMA and this fuss? Mirrorless can solve that. I don't care wether I get an image from DSLR which turns out to be out of focus because incorrect AFMA and have to delete it or I don't have to delete it because I didn't get it. And there were at least three situations the camera would not focus at all. So, DSLR as queen of Tele? Not in my kingdom...
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And why didn't I take the 150-600 with me? Beside the additional weight the main reason was: I couldn't finish the AFMA for it. With and without TC 1.4 there are 32 combinations of focus distance and focal length. I finished most of them, but at infinity things get tricky. Targets in 1km distance won't do for infinity. I need clear sky, it was raining.
Why AFMA and this fuss? Mirrorless can solve that. I don't care wether I get an image from DSLR which turns out to be out of focus because incorrect AFMA and have to delete it or I don't have to delete it because I didn't get it. And there were at least three situations the camera would not focus at all. So, DSLR as queen of Tele? Not in my kingdom...
Edited some of the autocorrection based typos