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<blockquote data-quote="stmv" data-source="post: 341928" data-attributes="member: 10038">ok,&nbsp; that is a loaded question because so much depends on your technique of shooting,&nbsp; and also camera and noise. My D800 has fairly low noise, so,, on thislens, I tend to set my ISO to 800,, and with fstop of 5.3-8,, the speeds typically is at 1/1000 of a second, which is fine for this lens,but,, still need to support the lens well, I put on a kirk collar,, which offers a perfect hand grip when not on a tripod, so,, I tend to brace my elbow to my chest, gripping the Kirk cloar, with my left hand, and then grip the camera/shutter with the right,, and really am careful not to tilt when pressing the shutter, since any tilting motion will cause a slight blur, with the higher pixel cameras, you have to maintainreally really good form,,&nbsp; but with practice,, the pictures come out razor sharp. here are a&nbsp; couple hand held shots first one is at 1/1000 of a second [ATTACH]105947[/ATTACH]and second one is 1/600th of a second [ATTACH]105948[/ATTACH]both hand held, and manual mode,&nbsp; shots with this lens.and here is a recent shot, cropped to 1/4 of the image (because so far away even at 400mm),&nbsp; hand held at 1/320th whichis about as slow as I want to hand hold this lens. [ATTACH]105952[/ATTACH]not bad for a cropped shot,</blockquote>

[QUOTE="stmv, post: 341928, member: 10038"] ok, that is a loaded question because so much depends on your technique of shooting, and also camera and noise. My D800 has fairly low noise, so,, on this lens, I tend to set my ISO to 800,, and with fstop of 5.3-8,, the speeds typically is at 1/1000 of a second, which is fine for this lens, but,, still need to support the lens well, I put on a kirk collar,, which offers a perfect hand grip when not on a tripod, so,, I tend to brace my elbow to my chest, gripping the Kirk cloar, with my left hand, and then grip the camera/shutter with the right,, and really am careful not to tilt when pressing the shutter, since any tilting motion will cause a slight blur, with the higher pixel cameras, you have to maintain really really good form,, but with practice,, the pictures come out razor sharp. here are a couple hand held shots first one is at 1/1000 of a second [ATTACH=CONFIG]105947._xfImport[/ATTACH] and second one is 1/600th of a second [ATTACH=CONFIG]105948._xfImport[/ATTACH] both hand held, and manual mode, shots with this lens. and here is a recent shot, cropped to 1/4 of the image (because so far away even at 400mm), hand held at 1/320th which is about as slow as I want to hand hold this lens. [ATTACH=CONFIG]105952._xfImport[/ATTACH] not bad for a cropped shot, [/QUOTE]

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