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<blockquote data-quote="hark" data-source="post: 756109" data-attributes="member: 13196">I had a chance to test out this lens a little more today - coupled with the 1.7x TC. I followed some advice by @<a href="https://nikonites.com/member-9240-backdoorarts.html" target="_blank">BackdoorArts</a> on when to switch between Single Point and Dynamic 153. There are still some slightly soft images so I will continue to put this lens through its paces. But overall some images are usable. Photoshop's Shake Reduction does help in some instances. This was one (since I cannot use Topaz on this laptop due to only 6GB RAM). This was definitely a worthy test. I switched from Single Point to Dynamic 153 after the hawk took off from a tree covered with branches. Fortunately the lens was able to lock on to the bird despite there not being a great deal of contrast present. Then when the hawk took off from this location, I was already in Dynamic 153 which seemed to work rather well. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />There was only a slight crop to this image from the original RAW file.[ATTACH=full]354361[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="hark, post: 756109, member: 13196"] I had a chance to test out this lens a little more today - coupled with the 1.7x TC. I followed some advice by @[URL="https://nikonites.com/member-9240-backdoorarts.html"]BackdoorArts[/URL] on when to switch between Single Point and Dynamic 153. There are still some slightly soft images so I will continue to put this lens through its paces. But overall some images are usable. Photoshop's Shake Reduction does help in some instances. This was one (since I cannot use Topaz on this laptop due to only 6GB RAM). This was definitely a worthy test. I switched from Single Point to Dynamic 153 after the hawk took off from a tree covered with branches. Fortunately the lens was able to lock on to the bird despite there not being a great deal of contrast present. Then when the hawk took off from this location, I was already in Dynamic 153 which seemed to work rather well. ;) There was only a slight crop to this image from the original RAW file. [ATTACH type="full" width="60%"]354361._xfImport[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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