Originally posted by RICHARD L. Hello Theuns,
How do you like your 67 M 55-100 mm f/4.5 zoom ? Heft, ease of focusing, focal range, sharpness ?
Regards
Richard, I absolutely love the lens. For now it stays on the camera until the 'first love' wears off a bit, then the other beloved lenses can have their turns again :-)
I found the focus easy to get used to, but without the split screen it would have been very difficult or close to impossible with the viewfinder. I found the focus very sensitive, even though the 'stroke' is long and smooth. As you approach infiniti the sensitivity seem to increase.
With the butterflies the manual focus was the only way to go because the background was scattered with distractions for autofocus. My wife tried with her D850 and only got nice shots with the background in focus and blurry butterflies. She could not convince the Nikon autofocus to see the butterflies.
I tried two methods with the manual focus and only one worked, sort of. At first I tried to identify a focus zone and waited for the butterflies to go into the focus zone (like a 'kill-box' approach). That didn't work because the butterflies didn't get the memo. There were four of them tangled in the dance. When two left I decided to change tactics, lest the last two also decide to leave.
For the second method I followed them in the viewfinder best I could and purposely focused behind them then hit the shutter button and pulled the focus forward while shooting. Hence I got one shot in focus and two shots almost in focus.
In a different setting with the background below the action autofocus may just do the trick.
What amazed me most was that I became excited about butterflies. Maybe my testosterone levels are dropping faster than I thought :-)