Great picture with good texture. I get close but the red seems to bleed and the texture is not crisp like your. Can you give me some idea of the lens or setting?? Thanks again and keep posting.

Words well said, I tend to be of the lousy variety.

Thank you! I will try tonight, weather permiting.

Sorry to hear of your loss. We lost our girl "Charlie" (half yellow lab and half golden retriever) about 3 1/2 years ago when she was 9 1/2. Took us 3 years to get up the courage to get another dog as loosing the first one was so painful. Finally got a yellow lab female (Maxine, call her Max for short). Totally forgot how much work a puppy is, lol. I will look around the Minn area for you and if I find something will let you know right away. Good Luck !

Nice photo. Mind if i ask the setttings? Thanks again.

I have that lens and love it. Clarity is better than I expected. Bought it probably 3 years ago. Good luck.

This is great information - thank you for helping this novice.

Thanks for the input, will do. Would you recommed getting a better quality filter and put it on? I have heard pluses and minuses about whether you should us them or not.

Tried to take off autofocus and go manual focus, same result. Moved the auto focus to "S" and moved the focal points down from 20 something to about 9 or so and theh down to 1 hoping that might help (take a lot of pics of birds in trees so need to reduce the focus points for that). Skyfilter is Promaster 62mm UV (MC) - bought it so long ago not sure if it was a cheapie or not. Used to have a 70-300 Nikkor but dropped it - god that was a nice crisp lens, wish I had it back. Swithed off VC when I have it mounted on a tripod - figured that out awhile back. Any help would be greatly appreciated - not looking too buy another lens this close after Christmas - lol. Thank you again.

I have the same issue with the Tamron SP 70-300 F/4-5.6 Di VC USD on my new D7000. I have been futsing with the AF-A to AF-S and AF-C to try and get a better focus but have not been able to get real clarity no matter what I try. Was looking at an 18-200 lens but was told the glass on the Tamron was better. Any ideas on what I can do to make things better? Thanks for the help.

I am not as good as I once was but I was once as good as I ever was.

George,

I plan on mounting it onto my D7000 with an adaptor that I just ordered. Not much money into the adaptor ($ 30) so figured why not try. Was told it would work so will set the camera to manual and go back to focusing like the good old days. Will this work?

Thanks

Rick

It is a Planar 1,4 / 50 with a red T and star on it. Serial number 6880726 - is this a good lens? Bought it so long ago, cannot remember.

So you are saying that the Zeiss is going to make good pics - assuming the idiot holding the camera does not mess it up? I bought this 1.4 many years ago and probably only used it twice - looking forward to using it again.