Nikon 200-400Mm F4G Af-S Vr If-Ed Zoom-Nikkor

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The tripod collar is an integral component of the lens and cannot be removed. The tripod foot itself can be unbolted from the tripod ring, and Canon supplies two different sized tripod feet. While the feet are fine and well made, I personally prefer to replace the Canon supplied ones with a third-party lens foot that has an integrated dovetail built-in, allowing for a much lower profile. You can create one much cheaper then the RRS versions by using pieces from Desmond and Sunwayphoto.

Sure, you may stop down from time to time, but to get those fast shutter speeds for action and shallow depth-of-field to isolate the subject, you’re shooting wide open. The Nikon 200-400mm f/4 VR is the largest of Nikon's pro AF-S zooms in 2008, which includes the 14-24mm f/2.8, 17-35mm f/2.8, 24-70mm f/2.8 and 70-200mm f/2.8 VR.Nano Crystal Coat (N): Magic anti-reflection coating that has a variable index of refraction that's far more effective than multicoating. Unlike the manual focus super-teles, the 200-400m manual focus ring is geared for precise adjustments. It turns the full 360 degrees to get from infinity to 6.5 feet (2m)! Let me put things in perspective. At about the distance at which I think the 200-400mm optical performance starts to decline (200-300 feet) with the TC-20E III on, I was reading small lettering off the ID plate of a transformer, and the edges were crisp. That was not true with the TC-17E on the lens. Not even close to true. By dollar volume, Nikon's original 200-400mm VR has always been one of Nikon's most popular lenses, and this new -II version is even better.

Often these lenses are camouflaged for use in the bush. This one, as loaned to me by an American sportsman, was wrapped in camo bandage tape for grip. Please feel free to visit this gallery on PBase to see some of my very first efforts with the 200-400, the majority of which were taken using the D2H. Nikon introduces this new VR AF-S lens, and it's also big, heavy and expensive and doesn't do much either compared to a fixed lens. With the popularity of digital photography and the world's economy continuing to create more rich people who can afford these, Nikon has already sold about 10,000 in the past 5 years. While the two rings‚—and strangely, a stationary part at the front of the lens—have different hatching patterns on their rubber, I don't find that to be helpful because the difference isn't distinct enough. I almost always find the focus ring by feel by the slight outdent from the zoom ring.Would Nikon make a top of the range professional super telephoto lens and then skimp by putting a below par drop in filter in the optical path? How does the built-in teleconverter work? Since the rear elements of super-telephoto lenses are fairly small, Nikon was able to add the teleconverter element group slightly off to the side of the lens, which added a small bump, as shown below: I tried the 1.7x with the 200-400 and the results were catastrophic no matter the range and the aperture I dont think I will keep it. I dont plan neither to buy the TC20EIII altough apparently better than tc17 with the 200-400. 550mm with the 1.4x is sufficient for my current needs. Both the 200-400 Mk 1 and 200-500 are prone to flare with the sun near the edge of the frame. The front miniscus of the 200-400 can be screwed off the Mk 1 in high flare situations. The lens comes with a pouch to put it in and a good "duffle bag" for transit. In the corners, things are a bit different. As you stop down you lose a bit of sharpness in the corners, though you get very little vignetting (the difference in brightness of the two images, which I haven’t processed here).