Not sure what the big deal it to be honest. I do full 12 hour weddings with the 200/D4 strapped to me as well as a 800E/35. On a side note my doctor says he has never seen such a fast onset of Scoliosis in his 46 years of practice..
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Having said that, however, the other day a guy handed me his D4 with the 200 f2 attached and any desire I'd ever had to own that lens evaporated faster than spit in the Sahara.
If I'd been handed the lens and never taken any pics, I'd also be skeptical. But having used the lens, I'm like the NRA members, 'from my dead cold hands'...
Joseph, that's a really cute shot! Seriously though, it does need a little getting used to at first, but repeated usage gets those muscles working properly quickly enough, as long as there's no medical problems preventing it.
Taking Laura's cue....
This kid moves up to bulls tonight sure hope he's ready!
D3 f2.5
a footnote this event started out with 3 photographers, by 7:30 or so
it was down to me. DX and f2.8 glass had to yield to FX and da Chubster.
Roughstock is quite lucrative, the darker it gets.
I wanted to test out a few things last night with the harvest moon and my new Zeiss 21 2.8 but I also brought my big pig along for the ride with a TC-20EIII
D4 200 2.0VRII w/TC-20EIII while on DX crop mode (600mm effective focal length)
Fish can fly - with a little help from osprey...
200 VR2 has perhaps the fastest AF locking to target of all the lenses I have tried. Great for fast action photographing, like the few second moments of osprey hitting.
I get hooked into buying a used 200mm F2 VR after looking at all these beautiful shots. I have access to a 300mm F2.8 VR and upon recieving the 200 the autofocus seemed to make more noise then the 300 so I took to APS for a CLA and was informed it would need a new autofocus motor and flexible circuit board at a cost of $850. The manual focus and VR seem fine and the lens has very low usage, no visible impact damage and was babied by it`s original owner. Any advice or input of past experience with this issue would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
I had to haul one of these around for a few days and at the time. I just wasn't impressed in the least with it.. I had made a comment earlier back. But after seeing some of the work in here, it deserves a second look... I'm liking the images on here.
Taking Laura's cue....
sure hope he's ready!
this event started out with 3 photographers, by 7:30 or so
