Yet Another Cycling Forum
Random Musings => Gallery => Phototalk => Topic started by: David Martin on 17 October, 2008, 11:54:27 am
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I had the chance to play with a D300 and a few lenses at Dixons in terminal 5. I tried the 70-300 VR - cool. sharp ics at 1/80 on 300mm. And total crap when turning VR off.
I'm sold..
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VR?
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Vibration reduction.
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It's a clever thingummy that Nikon have invented and it means that you can take decent pictures without a tripod even with a reasonably heavy zoom lens fitted.
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Ah. Magic gubbins. ty. I shall retreat to my techno-iggerant hole in the ground and leave the discussion to people who know about clever stuffs. :)
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I've got the 18-200VR and it is rather special.
However I wonder if it is a bit like seatbelts and I could end up taking risks that I know I shouldn't!
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I've got the Nikon 70-200 VR lens and it's pretty nifty.
I'll soon be getting Sigma's 18-200 OS HSM lens - I hope that's as good.
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I prefer shake reduction to be built in to the camera body (like Pentax does) so it will work with any lens.
Consistenly getting sharp pics at 300mm at 1/80 sounds very good, though.
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I've got the 80-400 VR and it works beautifully. Although I think that having a nice heavy lens is an aid to VR to start with!
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Lots of nice lenses to lust after there.. Must start saving my pennies.
How well do the VR lenses work with action shots?
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Wot, like this
(http://lh5.ggpht.com/grahamglen0/SPU1dZ_SN8I/AAAAAAAABPI/g4g82otCfvk/s720/DSC_2070.JPG)
or this
(http://lh3.ggpht.com/grahamglen0/SPU1susfPzI/AAAAAAAABP4/B2KwC5D_q50/s720/DSC_2215.JPG)
(http://lh6.ggpht.com/grahamglen0/SLaGf7QMf9I/AAAAAAAAAIg/oTFQ5emFrls/s720/DSC_6555.JPG)
(http://lh4.ggpht.com/grahamglen0/SLaHI4tattI/AAAAAAAAAMM/rh5tnjXVsjk/s720/DSC_7179.JPG)
I haven't yet encountered a situation where the VR has problems. I have occasionally switched on the focus limit to help it, then forgotten to switch it off again and wondered why it won't focus any closer than about 50 feet.
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Lots of nice lenses to lust after there.. Must start saving my pennies.
How well do the VR lenses work with action shots?
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I couldnt get on with canons version in their 24-105, it was very good at low shutter speed with static objects, like a building or a big landscape, but anything moving needed the same shutter speed regardless of the VR being on or not. A 1/12th second pic of a friend would have the background perfectly sharp but the person would have motion blur.
I sold it and got a 2.8 lens with similar range (tamron 28-75) and use the extra light to give me a faster shutter speed.
what shutter speed was that top one of yours, ZH?
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The Nikon VR has an active setting, for when taking pics from a moving vehicle, apparently!
I've not fathomed out what it actually does yet.
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Most VR/IS lenses have a panning mode which turns off the left/right sensitivity so you can track moving things.
I've just got my first compact with IS and need to remember to turn it off when using a tripod....apparently it actively creates blur otherwise.....I've yet to test that though.
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I got the Sigma 18-200 OS/VR lens yesterday for my D40. I haven't used it yet so I can't comment on the VR capabilities or it's general performance.
It's intended to be my main walkabout lens and in particular for use on holiday when I don't want to lug multiple lenses around, however, this lens is big and heavy and one of the reasons I chose the D40 is that's quite small and light (but well built).
I hope I get used to it.
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I couldnt get on with canons version in their 24-105,
The 100 - 400 is brilliant. The viewfinder seems slightly "sticky" as you are getting the position right - you move the camera a bit and nothing changes, then it goes "OK, I give up, you can move it" and the image jumps. As Rob S says, the need to select panning mode when taking pictures of moving objects - otherwise it tries to counteract your panning which is very disconcerting.