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<blockquote data-quote="hark" data-source="post: 775768" data-attributes="member: 13196"><p>Since I tested out the 300mm lens on my D500 Saturday - small birds at a distance and was impressed - I went out on Monday with this lens and the 1.7x TC. Nope. Everything was soft. This one I managed to sharpen enough although it is excessively sharpened. It was the best of the images I took.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]369313[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>But just to be sure, yesterday I went out with just the lens, and it performed very well. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> So cleaning off grime from the lens' contacts as well as the contacts inside the D500 body seemed to resolve the issue with the lens. Obviously the refurbished 1.7x TC just isn't going to cut it.</p><p></p><p>So today I went out with the 300mm and the 1.4x TX on my D500 and came across this Red-Tailed Hawk. The lens does very well with this 1.4x TC which hadn't been the case ever since I began having issues with the lens.</p><p></p><p>So question for anyone - and there is no wrong answer here - the background and the hawk are pretty much the same color and brightness. I darkened the background as well as lightened it yet didn't like either. Both of these are 'as is' so to speak since none of the changes to the background were pleasing. Curious what others think they'd prefer ... a darker or lighter background Or would it be best just to leave it as is? </p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]369314[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]369315[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hark, post: 775768, member: 13196"] Since I tested out the 300mm lens on my D500 Saturday - small birds at a distance and was impressed - I went out on Monday with this lens and the 1.7x TC. Nope. Everything was soft. This one I managed to sharpen enough although it is excessively sharpened. It was the best of the images I took. [ATTACH type="full" width="60%"]369313._xfImport[/ATTACH] But just to be sure, yesterday I went out with just the lens, and it performed very well. :) So cleaning off grime from the lens' contacts as well as the contacts inside the D500 body seemed to resolve the issue with the lens. Obviously the refurbished 1.7x TC just isn't going to cut it. So today I went out with the 300mm and the 1.4x TX on my D500 and came across this Red-Tailed Hawk. The lens does very well with this 1.4x TC which hadn't been the case ever since I began having issues with the lens. So question for anyone - and there is no wrong answer here - the background and the hawk are pretty much the same color and brightness. I darkened the background as well as lightened it yet didn't like either. Both of these are 'as is' so to speak since none of the changes to the background were pleasing. Curious what others think they'd prefer ... a darker or lighter background Or would it be best just to leave it as is? [ATTACH type="full" width="60%"]369314._xfImport[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" width="60%"]369315._xfImport[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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