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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Clovishound" data-source="post: 778590" data-attributes="member: 50197">Well, I got a chance to go take some pictures today. Overall I'm pleased. I really missed not having a long telephoto lens. I'm going to have to do something about that sooner rather than later. The camera handled well overall. Good ergonomics.   AF was decent, but had some issues in certain circumstances. I put it in one setting and left it there. I'll have to do some research and figure out what will likely work best for me.   Got used to the electronic viewfinder pretty quickly. The only issue is you have to remember to hit the button if you haven't done anything with the camera for a while and the VF shuts down. Not a big deal, just something else to adjust to. I like being able to have both the viewfinder and back screen showing the scene. Just have to be careful not to touch the screen, or else turn off the feature that lets you take a picture by touching the screen. Nice feature, but annoying if you don't know how to turn it off. Wasn't looking to run through all the features and learn them today, just get a feel for the camera and what it could do.   The 24-70 is not a macro lens, but it sure allows you to get close. I don't think I managed to bump up against the minimum focusing distance.   Downloaded the pictures and looked at them. They are sharp. Not hugely sharper than similar images taken with the D3400. They do seem to have better contrast and depth at high magnification.   Here's a close up of a Monarch. I can go up to about 140% magnification before sharpness breaks down. Long before that you can see sharp details of "fur" on the body and scales on the wings.  [ATTACH=full]371423[/ATTACH]And just for fun:[ATTACH]371424[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

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