I’ve sold my Nikon gear 😥

[@AbhinavYadav-zm7ut]

Good video, but hate the clickbait. Curious though, why didn’t you choose the Tamron 50-400?

[@birdzandbees]

Sorry about the click bait, it won’t happen again m, shame on me! Now down to the choices I was going to go with and why. The canon 100-400mm mkii L which for insect photography only would probably have been the best choice on the fringer adapter but I’ve realised that adapter lenses don’t have the same stability on Nikons as you can’t turn the stabilisation in the lens on,which brings me to the tamron which I had considered but same problem for video with this as it happens with the Nikon z 70-180mm f2.8 (made by someone else but labelled Nikon) and I shoot handheld 99.9% of the time. Also it has a 1.5mm metre minimum focus distance and the last thing is even stopped down it’s not great for extreme close subjects. Hope that answers your question. I love buying off brand as long as it fulfills the brief.

[@mikeblack_pw]

I did the same; 400 4.5 -> 100-400. I don’t bird. But I do some sports and landscape with telephoto and a long prime was a bit constricting. Nice video.

[@birdzandbees]

Thank you, hopefully I’m going out with it for birding over the next couple of my days off so fingers crossed it’s a me lens

[@DjCjFoto]

LoL, I owed the lens, great lens, but I hated that hood as much as you do. I went the other way, I replaced it with 400f4.5..

[@birdzandbees]

For birds 100% the f4.5 the correct choice and the best 400mm IQ I’ve used apart from the f2.8 big boys and I’ve owned the canon 400mm DO mkii f4 and 100-400mm mkii L lenses but for insects and close subjects I know this will be the better choice without even shooting in anger (found the same with canon gear) I’ll definitely miss the f4.5 though 😢😢

[@RobertVarner-h5b]

Why should I care?

[@birdzandbees]

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