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<blockquote data-quote="Fortkentdad" data-source="post: 554349" data-attributes="member: 24285">Lots of great advice already posted so won't repeat (well not too much).VR is good.&nbsp; But good technique is better.&nbsp; Somewhere I read something like IQ is 90% skill and 10% equipment.&nbsp; Or something like that.&nbsp; That being said some lenses are just stinkers.&nbsp; And that can be a problem with your particular copy of that lens.&nbsp; Sometimes this can be corrected in the camera by making adjustments in the camera (I don't know if all camera models have lens adjustment capacity).&nbsp; I have an old non-VR Siggy 100-300 in my collection.&nbsp; It is collecting dust.&nbsp; It worked dandy when I shot film decades ago - now when I go pixel peeping I can see it isn't nearly as sharp as say my Tamron 70-300 VR or a Nikon 70-200 2.8.&nbsp; As for going cheap.&nbsp; Sometimes a cheap lens is tack sharp - images taken with my AFD 50mm 1.8 ($100 lens) are as sharpe as 50mm images taken with my $1300 Tamron 24-70.&nbsp; But I'm comparing a classic prime to a zoom.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Fortkentdad, post: 554349, member: 24285"] Lots of great advice already posted so won't repeat (well not too much). VR is good. But good technique is better. Somewhere I read something like IQ is 90% skill and 10% equipment. Or something like that. That being said some lenses are just stinkers. And that can be a problem with your particular copy of that lens. Sometimes this can be corrected in the camera by making adjustments in the camera (I don't know if all camera models have lens adjustment capacity). I have an old non-VR Siggy 100-300 in my collection. It is collecting dust. It worked dandy when I shot film decades ago - now when I go pixel peeping I can see it isn't nearly as sharp as say my Tamron 70-300 VR or a Nikon 70-200 2.8. As for going cheap. Sometimes a cheap lens is tack sharp - images taken with my AFD 50mm 1.8 ($100 lens) are as sharpe as 50mm images taken with my $1300 Tamron 24-70. But I'm comparing a classic prime to a zoom. [/QUOTE]

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