I wrote a nice post and when closing out of preview, I apple-q\'d firefox. Anyways, I\'ve been shooting with the 200mm f/2.0 VR for the last few hours and I\'m loving it. Its probably Nikon\'s best lens in terms of raw image quality, period. I\'m a big lens noob and have only used it for a few hours, so be gentle I handheld it for about 4 hours straight and my 80-200mm felt like a 50mm prime in comparison (which was actually sort of nice when I switched lenses).
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First 2 and last are ISO200, next two are ISO3200. The lens is meant for shooting high school basketball in a very dark gym. All bokeh is completely natural.
Jan 09, 2009 at 11:51 PM
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Anyways, I\'ve been shooting with the 200mm f/2.0 VR for the last few hours and I\'m loving it. Its probably Nikon\'s best lens in terms of raw image quality, period. I\'m a big lens noob and have only used it for a few hours, so be gentle 
I handheld it for about 4 hours straight and my 80-200mm felt like a 50mm prime in comparison (which was actually sort of nice when I switched lenses).