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steve
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 Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2007 9:59 am Post subject: Nikon 70 - 300 a good wildlife lens |
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any guys played with one "much" better than the 18-200 VR compromise
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uncle aj
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| Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2007 10:16 am Post subject: |
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I think John (Jonnyoxygen) uses this lens. I have a Tamron 200-500 that I've been using a lot as my prime 300mm lens is back in Japan being repaired. 
When the new Nikon VR lenses come out next month I will try to persuade my wife to let me buy the 500. Wish me luck. :? |
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| steve i use the 70-300 lens all the time for bird and wildlife photography,but i am about to acquire a sigma 170-500 lens in the near future just to give me that ltlle extra reach. |
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steve
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| Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 10:44 am Post subject: |
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| uncle aj wrote: | I think John (Jonnyoxygen) uses this lens. I have a Tamron 200-500 that I've been using a lot as my prime 300mm lens is back in Japan being repaired.
When the new Nikon VR lenses come out next month I will try to persuade my wife to let me buy the 500. Wish me luck. :? |
500mmVR 5K PLUS!!! whoa! think i'm at my limit with regard cost to pleasure ratio |
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uncle aj
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| steve wrote: | | uncle aj wrote: | I think John (Jonnyoxygen) uses this lens. I have a Tamron 200-500 that I've been using a lot as my prime 300mm lens is back in Japan being repaired.
When the new Nikon VR lenses come out next month I will try to persuade my wife to let me buy the 500. Wish me luck. :? |
500mmVR 5K PLUS!!! whoa! think i'm at my limit with regard cost to pleasure ratio |
I think I'm going to wait a while for this one. I have a 300mm 2.8VR and a X1.4 and X2 TC. The results with the X1.4 TC are very good and the speed of focus is still quite fast. Mind you the 300mm cost me 2.5K and that was a bargin. At the time I bought it, they were going for 3K+
I've just had a thought.................I could put my short movie on general release and the royalties should pay for the 500mm VR lens. 
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