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Lol, Eric - it has been known ...

I use (as does JK , I think) -0.7 comp when shooting in Italy / Spain but certainly not in even sunny UK!

Another point that occurs to me is the DOF - it may be worth taking some shots of say grass or something that shows clearly the in focus range of your settings. It is possible that the camera focus is actually in front of or behind the focus point set on the lens.

In the image below you can see the dof clearly on the sand in front of and behind the horse's hooves. - right click on the image to open in a new tab and then left click on the image to zoom in. The white specks are flying sand particles! 
This was taken with my D90 with single point focussing on the horse's chest - see how the dof is actually mostly behind the focus chosen by the camera.



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Agreed when you are photographing in the intense light of mainland Europe compared to the high humidity of the British ISLES.  Also when photographing light subjects it’s best to drop exp comp into the minus region to guarantee holding onto highlight detail. But as a general rule Nikons don’t need anything more than +/- 0.3 to protect detail.


The Fuji gives me a warning not to mess with IT’S choice. :lol:



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Lol - like the Jag that messages me to say "top up the washer fluid!"



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Nice sharp lens but not between Macro to mid-range normal photography. We are in Dublin now, came over on ferry this morning. We will be in Ireland till month end will try and post some photos if suitable.



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Graham Whistler wrote:
Nice sharp lens but not between Macro to mid-range normal photography. We are in Dublin now, came over on ferry this morning. We will be in Ireland till month end will try and post some photos if suitable.

That was my experience.

I said earlier that I felt cheated by Nikon as it was billed as performing just as well beyond macro.

It didnt …….unlike my 60mm macro that worked perfectly beyond macro.

Enjoy the Emerald Isle.



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chrisbet wrote:
I note you took the bird feeder image at f16 and ISO 2000.

In Photographylive's review of the lens they note a loss of sharpness at f16 due to diffraction  - https://photographylife.com/reviews/nikon-vr-105mm-f2-8g-macro-lens/2

It would be interesting to see the same image taken at f5.6 1/125 and ISO 100 - an equivalent EV.

I took some shots of the dreaded bird feeder  with 0EV, f5.6 and f6.3. I have put these on the Splash list to enable you to see the EXIF data.
The first one is f6.3 1/100 and the second is f5.6 1/125. They are both ISO 100

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This is the f5.6 1/125 image


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Exposure looks there or thereabouts on both those, Bob

Can I suggest you take a series of increasingly closer shots of the bird feeder. 
This time try 200iso @ f5.6 ……focus on the feeder and take shots at (say) 1foot, 3foot, 20feet away.

It should give you a better assessment of the sharpness of the lens over distance



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Eric wrote:
Exposure looks there or thereabouts on both those, Bob

Can I suggest you take a series of increasingly closer shots of the bird feeder. 
This time try 200iso @ f5.6 ……focus on the feeder and take shots at (say) 1foot, 3foot, 20feet away.

It should give you a better assessment of the sharpness of the lens over distance

Wilco - why didn't I think of that - don't answer that:doh: Meanwhile here's another bee. -albeit with 0.7Ev comp. and not cropped or otherwise molested.

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First is from 2ft Handheld:

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The second is 5ft away:


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Next is 10ft:


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20ft 


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Same distance on monopod VR on


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Sharp image in the first of the set but the rest look soft.

Do you have a brick wall that you can use as a test image against as that will show if the lens has an element that is off as it should be sharp across the whole frame.   You need to make sure you are shooting at 90 degrees to the wall!



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