[BobB49]

The problem appears to have gone away. I'm not sure what I did. I reset it a couple of times (holding the two buttons on the top right hand side of the camera down -- of course this resets all of the settings back to default) I'm thinking that my issue may be that my subject (the Eagles and the nest) had alot of Black and Grey in it. The camera had a time focusing on and metering it. I'll just have to keep tinkering. I thought that it may be a calibration issue of somekind. I'll keep you posted. Could have also been that with the 1600mm lens the slightest breeze would subtly move the lens. (But I had a very high shutter speed on a tripod so - well.. I'm still working on it.)