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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Louderback" data-source="post: 498868" data-attributes="member: 40867">Hello.I desperately need some advice. I have been a hardcore street photographer for some 30 years, using a succession of 35mm film cameras. My first digital camera was a Nikon D90, and I was delighted. Nearly everything I shot on the auto setting with Matrix Metering and my 70-200mm Nikkor lens was perfectly exposed and focused for years. Then I decided it would be in my best interest to upgrade to the FX format and I have regretted nearly every moment of it. What's strange is that I rarely have this trouble using my 50mm lens. I have spent hundreds of extra dollars sending both the D600 body and the 70-200 lens to Nikon to be separately serviced, and still everything I shoot on the street is blown out and unfocused, with all settings zeroed out. It doesn't matter if my subjects are in the shade or bright sunlight, the exposure and autofocus is nearly always way off.  I have done a lot of research, and it seems I am very much alone in my desperation with this camera. Before anyone gets too far into the weeds technically, to my way of thinking street photography is a form where there is no time to worry about changing settings for every subject. One would think that having paid over 2000 dollars for a camera, they shouldn't long for their former 800-dollar one, right? Any thoughts? They are much appreciated.</blockquote>