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Originally Posted by AlexN
True.. I have manually focused and photographed a dragonfly in flight with a 500mm super-tele before.. but it was a pure fluke! I know it can be done, but in this day and age, would you if you didn't have to?
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It doesn't hurt to hone manual skills imho. Whilst I generally let AF do the work these days, in poor light or contrast, I usually switch to manual and do it the old fashioned way.
The lens does appear, by all accounts, to be optically half decent. That said, it's far too large to be used without a tripod, and that'd make it awkward for any moving subjects. Probably would be quite good for stuff like Safaris etc though.
Dave