Re: Official Nikon Z 180-600mm f5.6-6.3 VR Image Thread
SCoombs wrote: LarsHP wrote: SCoombs wrote:
I'm generally in agreement with this. The thing is, as I said in my comment above, at least to me almost all if the 180-600 examples people have been posting in various places look fairly soft. (...)
While I have seen soft images posted by user duncang, the vast majority I have seen in this thread and this looks very sharp. My own sample also performs well.
Both of these images are extremely soft. The 7.1 is better, but is still soft.
Sour Grapes
1. Regarding your 180-600 comments - The images posted throughout this thread show that it is "acceptably sharp" even wide open at 600. Of course this comment I am making right now is subjective; i.e. *the images speak for themselves*.
As I go back through this thread, I think you are the only person who insists that the 180-600 images we see on this thread are soft.
2. You are the first person I have read who has such a low opinion of the 200-500. You call it "wildly inconsistent" and you are "fairly sour on" it.
If your 2-5 was "wildly inconsistent" why did you keep it? Would anyone continue to shoot a lens they had such a low opinion of?
My 2-5 (bought in 2018) has been consistently tack sharp, albeit unbalanced (external zoom) and in recent years increasingly unwieldy.
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I can still carry my 2-5, but I do not want the weight anymore of any big lens. That is probably the reason I will not purchase this new 180-600 (it's just 1/2 pound lighter than the 2-5). That said, I may buy the 400 2.8 TC some day. For me, that particular lens might be worth the heavy weight (maybe not ). But WOW....what a lens!
Sep 16, 2023 at 08:58 AM
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). But WOW....what a lens!