Love this lens - 70-200mm f/4

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Steve B

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Had a chance to try out my new lens at a local county park today. I was very satisfied with the performance. These were all shot handheld at ISO 100 with a D7100. All photos are JPEGs straight out of the camera with no editing except for cropping.
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Bird house taken at 200mm 1/640 sec at f/4.
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Really cropped down from 6000x4000 to 880x1042. Still a lot of fine detail. Remember this was handheld.
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Dragonfly 200mm 1/800 sec at f/4 cropped from 6000x4000 to 2364x1529.
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Another dragonfly at 190mm 1/400 sec at f/4 cropped to 2196x1630
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Cattail at 120mm 1/400 sec at f/5. Detail might not show up in this picture but it is still extremely good. VR apparently works very good in this lens.
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Nest of young swallows under a canopy at the entrance to a building. 200mm 1/60 sec at f/4 available light still ISO100 and handheld although I was braced against a doorway. Cropped from 6000x4000 to 2874x1854.

No regrets with this lens.
 

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BackdoorArts

BackdoorArts

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Love mine, but just haven't had a chance to post a review. Great image sharpness. My only complaint is that it will tend to focus hunt with my D600 at night and when the focus point is on the extreme edges.
 
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singlerosa_RIP

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Nice shots. When shooting hand held, with decent technique, you might expect to go as low as 1/60 or better with VRIII on stationary subjects. I did a shoot over the weekend with my 70-200 2.8VRII and grabbed some keepers at 1/80 before breaking out the tripod. Some folks claim SS as low at 1/30.
 
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