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p.1 #1 · p.1 #1 · Post Your Best 80-400mm AF-D VR Images

There's a thread for the newer one, so how about a thread for the older version? Went through my hard drives and found these from five years ago. Kids having some summer fun at a carnival


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Jun 19, 2017 at 03:40 PM

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p.1 #2 · p.1 #2 · Post Your Best 80-400mm AF-D VR Images

I never got very many good ones with that lens. Partly because I didn't know what I was doing...

First time I ever saw wild bison in the Henry's

Slackliners, long ago.

Jun 19, 2017 at 04:31 PM

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p.1 #3 · p.1 #3 · Post Your Best 80-400mm AF-D VR Images

Here's some.

Jun 19, 2017 at 08:04 PM

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p.1 #4 · p.1 #4 · Post Your Best 80-400mm AF-D VR Images

Here's a few more.

Jun 19, 2017 at 08:07 PM

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p.1 #5 · p.1 #5 · Post Your Best 80-400mm AF-D VR Images

Here's to being this age again


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Jun 20, 2017 at 06:27 PM

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p.1 #6 · p.1 #6 · Post Your Best 80-400mm AF-D VR Images

viczig wrote:
Here's a few more.

Great pics

Jun 20, 2017 at 07:44 PM

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p.1 #7 · p.1 #7 · Post Your Best 80-400mm AF-D VR Images

NightOwl Cat wrote:
Here's to being this age again

Be nice but I dread the world they are inheriting

Jun 20, 2017 at 07:46 PM

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p.1 #8 · p.1 #8 · Post Your Best 80-400mm AF-D VR Images

ckcarr wrote:
I never got very many good ones with that lens.

Same here - I never really got any acceptably sharp images from the original 80-400 VR. That lens was certainly not one of Nikon's best efforts.

Jun 21, 2017 at 08:32 AM

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p.1 #9 · p.1 #9 · Post Your Best 80-400mm AF-D VR Images

It was my primary tele lens for wildlife till I moved on but I still used it for airshows because it was light and I was able to deal with the slow af system. I never had an issue with it producing unsharp images, I still have it sitting on a shelf but since I got a 200-500mm f5.6 it hasn't seen much use.

Jun 21, 2017 at 03:55 PM

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p.1 #10 · p.1 #10 · Post Your Best 80-400mm AF-D VR Images

I'm still using mine, as a matter of fact, I packed it on this trip east.

Jun 22, 2017 at 12:04 AM

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p.1 #11 · p.1 #11 · Post Your Best 80-400mm AF-D VR Images

Well, what I said shouldn't be misquoted, as it was. I'm generally not in the habit of blaming lenses. What I said was

I never got very many good ones with that lens. Partly because I didn't know what I was doing...

Don't think I knew a thing about shooting wildlife when I owned that lens.... Which was my point.

Jun 22, 2017 at 07:59 AM

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p.1 #12 · p.1 #12 · Post Your Best 80-400mm AF-D VR Images

Where is Morris on this one? I remember he use to get great BIF shots with this lens.

Jun 25, 2017 at 01:18 PM

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ckcarr wrote:
Well, what I said shouldn't be misquoted, as it was. I'm generally not in the habit of blaming lenses. What I said was

Don't think I knew a thing about shooting wildlife when I owned that lens.... Which was my point.

Know what you mean. Had this lens in my early days on my D700 and made kinda OK pictures but never really WOW pictures and of course blamed the gear. Upgraded the gear over the years but also improved my skills.
That made I had this lens kinda unused for 2 years.
Last April however I decided to take this lens on a birding trip as my second lens to be used on a D500 and D4. I must say that I was really pleased with the pictures it produced in respect of sharpness, bokeh, ... This is actually a stellar lens tat makes it all that much harder if I have to select lenses again on my next safari (got bitten by the NAS virus).

Anyway, a fellow countryman of mine and friend does show here what the lens is capable of:
http://www.yvesadams.be/photo/2014/02/
http://www.yvesadams.be/photo/2017/03/

Jun 25, 2017 at 03:44 PM

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p.1 #14 · p.1 #14 · Post Your Best 80-400mm AF-D VR Images

Sold mine for a 200-500E; despite all complaining in several forums this old zoom served me well all over these years.

Some samples:

Sayaca Tanager eating palm fruits

Sayaca Tanager eating exotic palm fruits by Jose, on Flickr

D7200 @ 330mm, ISO 320, f/8 at 1/15s (VR on, windowsill supported). 44% cropped (10.5/24Mp).

Juvenile Yellow-billed Cardinal bathing

Juvenile Yellow-billed Cardinal - bathing sequence by Jose, on Flickr

D300 @ 400mm hand held, ISO 320, f/9 at 1/640s.
Sequence during 4 seconds. ~8% crop (1.0/12.2Mb) for each image. Not bad for a "horrible" zoom.

Smooth-billed Ani sunbathing the wings.

Smooth-billed Ani sunbathing the wings. by Jose, on Flickr

D300 @ 400mm, ISO 500, f/8 at 1/500s, VR ON, supported on a BushHawk gunstock mount. 75% cropped (9.2/12.2Mp).

Jun 27, 2017 at 09:38 PM

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Vinnie_VdB wrote:
Know what you mean. Had this lens in my early days on my D700 and made kinda OK pictures but never really WOW pictures and of course blamed the gear. Upgraded the gear over the years but also improved my skills.
That made I had this lens kinda unused for 2 years.
Last April however I decided to take this lens on a birding trip as my second lens to be used on a D500 and D4. I must say that I was really pleased with the pictures it produced in respect of sharpness, bokeh, ... This is actually a...Show more →

The bokeh on this lens is to die for. The new one didn't disappoint either.

I only rented this version about 10 years ago on a D70. I made some of my favorite pics with it at a music festival and always dreamed of owning it. Three years ago I bought the new one and I am loving it.

It has decent contrast and colour imho. Sharpness was fine for a zoom.

Jun 29, 2017 at 06:53 AM

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p.1 #16 · p.1 #16 · Post Your Best 80-400mm AF-D VR Images

Brought mine along with me on my trip to Massachusetts. While there, I finally made it out to Martha's Vineyard, and shot from the deck of the ferries.


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Jul 06, 2017 at 06:11 PM

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p.1 #17 · p.1 #17 · Post Your Best 80-400mm AF-D VR Images

Couple more from my trip east.


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Shot from ferry deck

Rockport, Mass.

Jul 14, 2017 at 07:33 PM

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p.1 #18 · p.1 #18 · Post Your Best 80-400mm AF-D VR Images

Taking off


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Oct 01, 2018 at 06:06 AM

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