p.5 #1 · Will you upgrade to the new 70-200vr when and if it comes out?
With my D700, if I turn Vignetting control off in the camera then I have dark corners. The D700 & D3 were programmed to know the limitations of the 70-200mm 2.8 and automatically fix it by default. With vignetting control set to normal I don't see dark corners unless I am shooting a white background at 2.8 and then they are not very dark. If you put a filter on the lens then you would need to turn vignetting control to high.
It is also entirely possible that newer 70-200's produced were slightly modified in their calibration to reduce vignetting on FX. It wasn't important on the old ones because they were primarily used for DX cameras.
p.5 #2 · Will you upgrade to the new 70-200vr when and if it comes out?
if you shoot JPG or process RAWs using Capture, you won't see any vignetting. since both these alternatives haven't been on my list of options since the Coolpix 5000 first supported RAW, they are useless to me. i use Lightroom and ACR and RAW only because i like to be able to process more than a couple of images an hour. corner softness isn't corrected by any of these since it's such a sharp falloff to mush.
Herb...
Mike Mohrmann wrote:
I have not seen this either in the 4 months I have owned it. And yes, I shoot wide open quite a bit with the D700. Yet others are insistent that they see heavy vignetting wide open on FX. Can't quite explain why our experiences are this extreme with the same lens.
p.5 #3 · Will you upgrade to the new 70-200vr when and if it comes out?
dionysis wrote:
With my D700, if I turn Vignetting control off in the camera then I have dark corners. The D700 & D3 were programmed to know the limitations of the 70-200mm 2.8 and automatically fix it by default. With vignetting control set to normal I don't see dark corners unless I am shooting a white background at 2.8 and then they are not very dark. If you put a filter on the lens then you would need to turn vignetting control to high.
dionysis wrote:
It is also entirely possible that newer 70-200's produced were slightly modified in their calibration to reduce vignetting on FX. It wasn't important on the old ones because they were primarily used for DX cameras.
HerbChong wrote:
if you shoot JPG or process RAWs using Capture, you won't see any vignetting. since both these alternatives haven't been on my list of options since the Coolpix 5000 first supported RAW, they are useless to me. i use Lightroom and ACR and RAW only because i like to be able to process more than a couple of images an hour. corner softness isn't corrected by any of these since it's such a sharp falloff to mush.
Sounds like any combination of these explanations could be the reason(s) why I am not seeing the vignetting:
I shoot my D700 in RAW and process in Capture.
I have my D700's vignetting control set to Normal.
I don't use a UV filter on my 70-200 VR1.
My 70-200 VR1 is a fairly recent build based on the serial number (less than one year old).
p.5 #4 · Will you upgrade to the new 70-200vr when and if it comes out?
No plans to upgrade at the moment.
Still use the 80-200AFS, love it and until I have bought everything else on my list will probably stay with it not that I haven't thought about it though (unless of course it develops fungus or somesuch then it obviously moves up the list).
