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That's very interesting, its nice to see you enjoy what your doing, my girlfriend and I are as of this week battling with Covid, she was hit short and hard but is comming out of it ok at the moment, i am just going in.........trialing these new drugs not approved yet, they prevent long covid and a faster recovery and the spread of teh virus to vital organs, hey will give it a go what have you got to loose LOL.Push pull or turn options with the Sigma Sports and Tamrons was always nice to have. I have had Tamron fine tune lenses to my camera body but have never had Nikon do anything other than take three tries to fix my 200-500 and my f mount 1.4 TCIII ... they got it done with the third try on each. We do have a local SPT Certified Camera Technician the only one in Idaho that I know of who is quite proficient ... he went out on his own when the last camera store in Boise closed ... he says the biggest challenge he has with Nikon is how restrictive they have gotten in selling parts, only thing I have recently used him for was repairing the mount on my D6 damaged by my own dumb careless move and inspecting the 600 f/4e that was attached and caused the damage when camera and lens slid off the seat of SUV and hit the pavement on the corner pf the battery chamber cover ... he had to get the mount from a supplier outside of the US where Nikon was still selling to. I have had him clean and service various lenses and cameras in the past when he worked for the old camera store ... so glad to have him around.
My Nikon 100-400 is very good almost everywhere and that is actually how I use it when I use it since when I want it I am usually all over the focal length. Since I have the 800mm for my small bird addiction I use it 90% of the time. This evening I have a golden eagle audubon society event at our local botanical garden and will be shooting people, flowers and maybe some birds and will be using the seldom Z70-200 and packing the 1.4 TC just in case. Then I have an indoor ordination shoot at church this weekend for a young man who is my grand daughters age and grew up in our congregation, now he is a newlywed getting ready for his first pastoral assignment in Minnesota ... making me feel a bit on the ancient side.
Years ago I was a sales and marketing manager for a farm machinery manufacturing company ... and dealt with the vagaries of QC issues on a regular basis ... I do not miss those days ... many times the response from our production and engineering managers to a customer complaint was that it was within tolerances ... to the customer if was out of his tolerance level and I had to practice the tolerance of being in between the opposing points of view
I would like a 100-400 light fast and on 45 or 60 mp small sized unit like a Z6II or Z7II better still a Z8, it would be awesome, I had a Sony A9 with a 100-400 when Sony wanted me to switch camps LOL, it was impressive, I would wind 20 fps back to 10, i was just so more relaxed picking up my D4S and 200-500 again. To soon to change plus it was all new and complicated in my mind.
My hack walk around travel unit is the 28-300 on a DF with a 50mm Ziess in my back pocket, as well the D850 and 70-200 FL in the bag if needed.
If i had to just take one lens and camera then its the D850 - 70-200 FL with a 1x and 2x TC.
Night soccer matches its the Z9 300 2.8 vr II with a 1.4 TC with the D6 on the 70-200 with a 1.4 TC.
I think mass production has improved from its trial days of a decade ago, now its cheaper to push production out within the tolerance, and address issues in the filed rather than make the effort to make perfect every unit before the leave the factory.
Manufactures know that most users wont see of pick up things to critically.
This vaires greatly dpending on what which product also.
Keep well.
