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Posted: Thu Sep 17th, 2015 08:59

Joined:	Sat Apr 14th, 2012
Location:	Fareham, United Kingdom
Posts:	1888
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Just back from a wet 3 weeks in Ireland. I took the 80-400mm plus 1.4 converter as it is more compact than my super new 500mm also did not want to risk the new lens in locked car etc! To amuse myself on several wet days in our holiday cottage on W Coast I had a go at birds on the feeder in the garden out of the window. They were so tame I moved the feeder to 15 feet and just took all pix I wanted to hone my bird skills.

Several new things JK said VR no use with long lenses so I did tests as light was poor a lot of the time. Still got pin sharp hand holding with VR 1/125 sec at 650mm. So was then able to cut down high ISO and also stop down more. After three days of wet weather days at the window I was getting 70% good results only failures were birds moving their heads.

So happy with this lens and converter that I am not going to sell it!! Watch this space I will soon post some results from my new 500mm F4 AF-S. So at least I now know I can now trust VR with slow shutter speeds!

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