Great lens, irrespective of price I think. I don't use it a lot but when I do use it it does its part as long as I do mine. These are quite heavily cropped and I might have been a but too enthusiastic with sharpening:
trenchmonkey wrote:
Thanks, Alfonso...many fine samples have been posted by some happy shooters thus far.
Yes, Will I agree 100%.. all the images displayed here by all the members are amazing. I have to get one of these for when I go on vacation in 2 months.
Well since no one wants to play "shoot the dollar" (see previous post ), I went for a walk around with the 70-300 -- a rare occasion given the spring monsoon we've had.
I used mine this afternoon to snap a few. D700 1/500 f/5.3 at 200mm, ISO 1600, shot in RAW. No post processing or sharpening other than standard output sharpening for export to JPG in LR3:
lovely "patch" job @ the beach 
I love when folks come out of the woodwork like this. 
