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Spot the Yorkshireman [emoji28]£3150 at Panamoz, if they come down to £3000 I'll buy one...........I live in hope [emoji38]
Spot the Yorkshireman [emoji28]£3150 at Panamoz, if they come down to £3000 I'll buy one...........I live in hope [emoji38]
Spot the Yorkshireman [emoji28]
Now down to £3080.........I'm starting to get cold sweats and panic attacks!!!
Watching the 500PF price too now!
£3150 at Panamoz, if they come down to £3000 I'll buy one...........I live in hope
I'm not looking....Have you checked the price lately?
I'm not looking....
I don't know whats going on with these lenses, but MPB know have 4 up for sale and WEX had one up for sale the other week too....
Out of interest did you try Focal with the 500 and TC14e-III ? when I try it always fails, I can do in camera focus lens adjustment but not with focal as it appears to fail to lock on, still love mine thoughI bought mine in a lockdown madness impulse purchase from Harrison, I bought it primarily because of the weight factor and wanting another 500mm prime. OK it's not the F/4 I used to own but it's a damned good replacement for it. Mine is attached to a D500 and I use a mkiii t/c quite often with it. The one and only critisism is the foot, its cr@p, I have now removed the Nikon one and got a Wimberley AP500 foot fitted instead (£60 from WEX).
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Out of interest did you try Focal with the 500 and TC14e-III ? when I try it always fails, I can do in camera focus lens adjustment but not with focal as it appears to fail to lock on, still love mine though
My 500PF has landed now so looking forward to giving it a whirl this weekend and then comparing the results with my 500mm f4 VR. Happy days.
I could be interested in a 500 PF though if there was one going!
So as not to clog Pooley's sales thread, I thought I'd bring this back to the top for Si @Son_of_Thor
https://panamoz.com/gb/nikon-afs-500mm-f56-vr.html
I'm hanging on until they come down to 2500
My 500PF has landed now so looking forward to giving it a whirl this weekend and then comparing the results with my 500mm f4 VR. Happy days.
Just wondering if you had a chance to get out with your PF and how you got on.....
only £2910 @ panamoz today thats cheaper than e-finity
Phil, don't - just don't! I had already noticed the further 50 quid drop on Panamoz...
You've talked me into it
Well I hope they don't come down anymore now I've bought one!
Nice one - thought you were about to bite when I saw you enquiring after a Nikon TC!!
I've been umming and arring for months Si, trouble is I've been too happy with the Sigma but curiosity has finally got the better of me.
It was a tough call though, being a tight git, I'm going to be gutted if they come in price down some more
I have and I’ve tried it on my D5 and D850 so far. Very happy with it so far, focuses very quick for a f5.6 lens but not as quick as my FL 70-200. The weather hasn’t been brilliant really to really test it out but for carrying round whilst walking it’s superb. I use a Rapid Black strap and I don’t even notice it when walking my dogs. All in all I’m very happy with it. I haven’t done any direct comparisons with my 500mm f/4 VR yet but I will soon I hope.
Would love to see some comparisons between this f5.6 and the f4, for me the thing I keep wondering about is how soft the DOF is on the f5.6 compared to the f4.
Anyone tried the 500 PF with a DSLR on a gimbal? Only wondering as I did try this once with the 300 PF and TC and it's so light there was no way it was going to balance
The Manfrotto Nitro fluid head works great, I want to do more video and purchased one recently. I am very impressed with itI have used mine on a gimbal. Needs a long plate to get it to balance (I have a RRS foot). Will balance with both D500 and D810 with or without grips. Is probably easiest with ungripped D500. I rarely bother with a tripod since swapping my 500f4 for the 500pf but have used successful when required. Have thought about trying a fluid head as I seem to shot more video now and I can’t pan smoothly with a gimbal.
I have used mine on a gimbal. Needs a long plate to get it to balance (I have a RRS foot). Will balance with both D500 and D810 with or without grips. Is probably easiest with ungripped D500. I rarely bother with a tripod since swapping my 500f4 for the 500pf but have used successful when required. Have thought about trying a fluid head as I seem to shot more video now and I can’t pan smoothly with a gimbal.
The f/4 gets used mainly at motorsport events which are now all closed. The f/5.6 was for wildlife which in this grim weather isn’t even worth getting out for and the only pics I did get were some BIF in which it did very very well on my D5. I might set up something up at home and try the 2 lenses and see how they give different DOF on the images.
That would be excellent mate. It would be good to see them both in comparison to each other with a fixed subject and varying distances to the backgrounds.
I know the 500 f5.6 prime does have better bokeh but how close is it to the f4 - the 200-500 can give some nasty spangled bokeh sometimes.
Not had any issues with the boken, at relatively short distances it is compariable with 500f4 (aperture adjusted). This is always subjective but I am happy.
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I've been umming and arring for months Si, trouble is I've been too happy with the Sigma but curiosity has finally got the better of me.
It was a tough call though, being a tight git, I'm going to be gutted if they come in price down some more