Nikon 2185 AF-S NIKKOR 70-200mm f/2.8G ED VR II Lens - Bulk packaging (White box, New)

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ED: Magic Extra-low Dispersion glass for reduced secondary chromatic aberration (sharper pictures). Desert Fountain, 19 November 2016. Nikon D810, Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8E FL at 155mm, f/2.8 hand-held at 1/40 at Auto ISO 800. bigger or full-resolution file to explore on your computer. When you use a lens with its rear nodal point so far forward, the corners of the finder often take on a darker, fuzzier double-image look because the condenser lenses and Fresnel screens are looking in the wrong place! The corners of the finder look awful, but the image on film and on-sensor are unaffected by the finder image. The original 50-300mm f/4.5 and other super-teles have suffered from this same ugly-finder effect for the same reason.

Oddly, if you're a tripod-hugger who looks too hard in the far corners where real photographers would never put their subjects, the TC-14E and TC-17E give sharper corners than the lens alone! If you're worrying about this lens' sharpness, you're probably not a seasoned full-time pro. This, and all Nikon's previous 80-200mm and 70-200mm lenses, have been the standards against which all other professional zooms have been judged for many, many decades.There are no color fringes as shot on modern Nikon DSLRs, which by default correct any that may be there. This new Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8 E FL is the world's best 70-200mm lens because it's the sharpest, the best made, and most importantly, the lightest and closest-focusing f/2.8 70-200 ever made. It focuses nearly instantaneously and has great vibration reduction so you won't need a tripod.

Desert Palms at Dawn, 21 November 2016. Nikon D810, Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8 FL at 180mm at f/8 at 1/250 at Auto ISO 100. bigger or full-resolution file to explore on your computer. It gets a little closer than that. AF stops just short of the manual focus stop, so if you're at the edge, twist the focus ring by hand and you may get what you need. The pictures below illustrate the focal length range from wide to telephoto, on FX (35mm full-frame) and DX (APS-C) camera bodies: The camera reads the effective lens speed (f/5.6 maximum instead of f/2.8) and actual focal length (140~400mm) with a 2x converter. Fast, quiet AF with a silent wave motor. You won't scare sensitive subjects as other AF lenses might.The 70-200mm VR isn't very hot on the TC-20E. If you have all three TCs and do a direct comparison as I did, the results from the TC-20E and 70-200 VR combination are clearly inferior to any other combination, looking at D3 output at 100%.

What this gobbledygook means is that you can't tell how sharp this lens is by looking through the finder. The corners will always look dark and blurry because Nikon's finders aren't optimized for this lens. AF seems almost as fast and sure. It's not quite as fast as without a TC, but not much slower either.This diaphragm will not work with any of Nikon's primitive first generation DSLRs introduced before about 2007, or any 35mm camera. On these old cameras the lens shoots wide-open at f/2.8. Its macro ability is unmatched by any other Nikon f/2.8 tele zoom, with a super-close 1:4.76 maximum reproduction ratio.

Desert Construction, 20 November 2016. Nikon D810, Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8E FL at 200mm at f/2.8 at 1/1,000 at Auto ISO 100. bigger or camera-original file to explore on your computer.

So long as you want to shoot at f/2.8 with any camera, no problem; but there is no way that cameras introduced before 2007 can stop down the electronic diaphragm. Pros laughed at that review. Pros wrote me from all over the world telling me how their 70-200mm is the best lens they've ever owned, how they earn their living with it day-in and day-out, in the dark, in the rain, indoors and outdoors, and how other pros call them asking what lens was used for such-and-such shot since it was so sharp. One pro wrote that he's glad he never read that review, since if he did he might never take his 70-200 out of his bag! Most cameras also allow you to program, in the camera's custom functions menus, to have these buttons do other things, like start AF.