One reason I bought the Olympus E-PL1 is that it has shake reduction. To see how effective the shake reduction is, I mounted an Nikon 70-300mm VR lens on it and shoot at 300mm (that is the only 300mm I have)--handheld. I guess the shake reduction is working, otherwise the result would have been more blurred.
BUT it is extremely difficult to focus, since unlike Nikon's lens VR, the body shake reduction does not seem tostablize the image when focusing.
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Showing posts with label 70-300mm VR. Show all posts
Monday, April 23, 2012
Sunday, December 31, 2006
AF-S VR Zoom-Nikkor 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 G IF-ED
I just received my first VR lens. I was very excited. I tried to take some indoor shots with it right after I opened the box, handheld, at 1/10s. That is the meaning of VR, right? It didn't work. The pictures are blurred. It is still a lens, not a miracle. This lens is not for indoor, 50mm f/1.8 or f/1.4 will suit better for that purpose. It has other shortcomings too: it is rather bulky, much heavier than the non-VR 70-300mm G, auto-focusing is not that fast and easily get confused when shooting complex scenes (this might has more to do with the D50 body though).
At this point, I thought, maybe I should not give up searching for a good 180mm ED AIS manual focus lens (auto ones are good of course, but rather expensive and bulky). VR does have its limitation.
Once back to the real world, I become very happy with this lens. I am able to get sharp pictures handheld at 1/50s or faster, not guaranteed, but with high confidence. A new lens like this always brings you something fresh. For example, I found out today we have more than one racoons in our backyard:
I have not mounted it on a tripod yet. But the lens is sharp enough. There are more important things that I want to worry about than sharpness. What I like most about this lens is its color rendition. I know it will be great. Even the non-VR non-ED $100 70-300mmG has pretty good color rendition. This one costs five times more. It gonna give something.
A very small amount of color fringing can be seen at the long end when wide open when shooting backlit scenes:
It is very acceptable and stopping down the lens will totally solve the problem. Again, as I rememberd, CA is not an issue even for that non-ED non-VR version. Nikon's coating technique must be very mature now.
You can find more sample shots at my Picase web album:
http://picasaweb.google.com/westernfort/70300mmVR
At this point, I thought, maybe I should not give up searching for a good 180mm ED AIS manual focus lens (auto ones are good of course, but rather expensive and bulky). VR does have its limitation.
Once back to the real world, I become very happy with this lens. I am able to get sharp pictures handheld at 1/50s or faster, not guaranteed, but with high confidence. A new lens like this always brings you something fresh. For example, I found out today we have more than one racoons in our backyard:
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| From 70-300mm VR |
I have not mounted it on a tripod yet. But the lens is sharp enough. There are more important things that I want to worry about than sharpness. What I like most about this lens is its color rendition. I know it will be great. Even the non-VR non-ED $100 70-300mmG has pretty good color rendition. This one costs five times more. It gonna give something.
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| From 70-300mm VR |
A very small amount of color fringing can be seen at the long end when wide open when shooting backlit scenes:
 |
| From 70-300mm VR |
It is very acceptable and stopping down the lens will totally solve the problem. Again, as I rememberd, CA is not an issue even for that non-ED non-VR version. Nikon's coating technique must be very mature now.
You can find more sample shots at my Picase web album:
http://picasaweb.google.com/westernfort/70300mmVR
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