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Quentin
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Registered: Jan 24, 2004
Location: United Kingdom
Posts: 75
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Review Date: Jan 24, 2004
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: Not Indicated
| Rating: 10
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Reach, optical quality at the price
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slight softness beyond 300mm
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I'm giving this an excellent rating, because quite frankly, its a steal at the price. Focusing is slow, but the image is sharp, and the VR really works. Not as amazingly sharp as my 85mm F1.4, but sharp by any normal standards.
A regular in the camera bag.
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 Jan 24, 2004
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Howard Passman
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Registered: Mar 24, 2003
Location: United States
Posts: 656
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Review Date: Nov 28, 2003
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: $1,200.00
| Rating: 8
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I think it works well in low light as long as you can manually focus. See example shot at f5.6 and 1 second!
Light enough to lug around.
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Focus hunts and is noisy on the D100. It has a tough time with moving subjects unless they are really filling the frame
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I have the 70-200 f2.8 AFS VR also and I'm finding the 80-400 gets more use because of the reach.
This shot was taken at 1 second f5.6
http://www.pbase.com/image/20911103.jpg
I was lucky to focus at all. It was quiet dark.
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Nov 28, 2003
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rob_r
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Registered: Aug 11, 2003
Location: United Kingdom
Posts: 265
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Review Date: Aug 26, 2003
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: Not Indicated
| Rating: 10
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Sharp as ...., if you know what to do!
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Slow AF of course
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Depends on what you want it for. Sports? Perhaps not. Wildlife.. as long as it stays still long enough to focus on - give it a second - great. And that suits me. Some say it's soft @ 400mm - maybe so on a film/FF body, but on my d100 it's hard to see it's softness (same field of view as 600mm thereabouts).
Seeing as it would cost £1600 to get the heavier 70-200 VR & TC2 thingy telecon... well it's an easy choice to spend less.
Nah, for the money, and for the versatility - less to lug around (tripod and lens weight combined) - and if you're not worried about the focussing speed, go for it. Sure, it ain't f2.8 (but VR buys you headroom on that) and it ain't AF-S (doesn't bother me), but at this cash (200-400 --- £5000 anyone!?!) its a steal.
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Aug 26, 2003
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dbaleckaitis
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Registered: Jan 29, 2003
Location: United States
Posts: 333
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Review Date: Apr 22, 2003
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: $1,400.00
| Rating: 8
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VR! Fast, heavy, nice contrast
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Have not found anything other than weight!
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Works great when attached to a D1X (Yes I said D1X)!
I am very happy with this lens.
Well constructed and heavy. VR works great, HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
Dan
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Apr 22, 2003
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brbriggs
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Registered: Sep 5, 2002
Location: United States
Posts: 240
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Review Date: Apr 1, 2003
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: $1,200.00
| Rating: 10
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Great for low light and wild life.
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May need manual focus at times, but the M-F ring is well designed and easy to use.
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Recommended.
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Apr 1, 2003
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Art B
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Registered: Oct 2, 2002
Location: United States
Posts: 1294
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Review Date: Mar 31, 2003
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: Not Indicated
| Rating: 8
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Image quality; VR
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Cons:
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Slow to focus
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Plays nicely with the D100 (and the F100). The VR functionality truely lives up to the advertising, in that it will give you 3 extra stops. Really shines in situations of hand held wildlife.
The slow focus probably doesn't lend itself very well to high speed action, although using the focus "Limit" mode does help a bit.
I've owned this lens since soon after it landed on dealer shelves.
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Mar 31, 2003
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mrdinh
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Registered: Dec 26, 2002
Location: United States
Posts: 1655
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Review Date: Mar 31, 2003
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: Not Indicated
| Rating: 8
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light for its coverage
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Cons:
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not too good under low light conditions
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incompatible with d1x?...i heard that again...what!...i'm not sure what ya'll talking bout?....i don't have any with my d1x and 80-400...please explain....
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Mar 31, 2003
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erikff
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Registered: Sep 8, 2002
Location: South Africa
Posts: 1281
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Review Date: Mar 30, 2003
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Recommend? no |
Price paid: $1,200.00
| Rating: 4
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sharp
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slow focussing, VR problems with D1x
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I had this lens for just under a year and hated it from the moment I first bought it. I think that my expectations must have been too high but I found this lens extremely slow and in addition I had compatibility problems with my D1x.
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Mar 30, 2003
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