Recent content by zeameth

this is the right answer :) i bought mine new for about your budget aswell.

i picked up the following late last year and have been seriously impressed. Stable, light for its size, twist lock legs and a steal at that price. Ball head is pretty nice as well but you can always shift that to lower the effective cost. a steal at that price...

it was 1 per customer per order - i was able to buy 2 more individuals and apply them

just to add to the mix. tamron have a new 17-35 f2.8 to f4 out which takes 77mm filters. its available at a little over 400 new in a few places. beats my 15-30 tamron in virtually every area except contrast for astro work on a d850. By comparison its tiny and light.

that's a wonderful shot, beautiful colours, wish i had taken it myself :)

Hi bill a good number of meteors there and some good colour, I popped out last minuite and got about 45 minute of shooting in last friday night. a few strikes but nothing worth writing home about really.

I had a tamron 70-200 VC (model before the g2) and it was very good. Focused nearly as fast as the Nikon vr2 and i could barely tell the difference between the lenses unless there was flare (different characteristics) It was a far bit sharper than the sigma 70-200 OS i tried at the same...

Hi Nick, We don't leave for another 6 or 7 weeks, so unfortunately i'm not able to answer many of your questions. My progress thus far as been banging my head against with air Madagascar, i did eventually speak to someone based in Paris, who assured me that while there is a carry on limit its...

Only think i can think of was when i sent mine in it was not only exhibiting the flare but the curtain was getting mechanically jammed, perhaps they put it through as a different issue? My paperwork states it was dealt with under the normal recall so :S

hmm they reset mine :S

Happens to mine aswell, low battery stops the camera from taking shots but will stay on for a little while longer. Even less funnier is when my d500 states the battery is dead, i pop it into the d750 and get another 200 frames or so...

There are also a coupple of tamron 150-600s out in the market. The first version was very similar to the sigma in terms of perfrmance. There are also slightly older 150-500s and 50-500 available from sigma, these in turn should be cheaper overall. I actually own the sigma 150-600 (it goes...

Have to say i love wider environmental shots showing animals within their natral habitat (or whats left of it in all too many cases). Wonderful images

i won't speak for kodiak system but i can tell you how i do my intitial check on a lens and body combo, essentially its what Tijuana Taxi suggested, use the direct sensor input (liveview) as the benchmark. Lock down the camera on a sturdy tripod facing a nice contrasty target while wide open...

its the version immediately prior to the Sport version that i remembered, it did have OS found the article here: https://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2012/09/lensrentals-repair-data-january-july-2012/ Ive not handled the non OS version myself