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<blockquote data-quote="marce" data-source="post: 195705" data-attributes="member: 10684"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/england78/sets/72157634634239559/" target="_blank">Turbary Wood Owl Sanctury - a set on Flickr</a>Nikon 55-300 all hand held, it is one of my favourite lenses for my D3200, but you do need to use a correct shutter speed, and even with VR it will vary from person to person and quite often from one session to another. But without VR on a telephoto lens I need bright sunshine and a lot of luck, with VR I can easily get 2 stops advantage and sometimes 3 (based on reciprocal of the lens length (ie 300mm 1/300sec, though with crop factor I believe 1/450 is better) so using 300mm I can shoot at 1/100s on a good day...I don't think its the lens in my case its user mistakes, not noting shutter speed, altering ISO or on one occasion forgot to turn the VR on, 50 shots assigned to the bin<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="marce, post: 195705, member: 10684"] [url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/england78/sets/72157634634239559/]Turbary Wood Owl Sanctury - a set on Flickr[/url] Nikon 55-300 all hand held, it is one of my favourite lenses for my D3200, but you do need to use a correct shutter speed, and even with VR it will vary from person to person and quite often from one session to another. But without VR on a telephoto lens I need bright sunshine and a lot of luck, with VR I can easily get 2 stops advantage and sometimes 3 (based on reciprocal of the lens length (ie 300mm 1/300sec, though with crop factor I believe 1/450 is better) so using 300mm I can shoot at 1/100s on a good day... I don't think its the lens in my case its user mistakes, not noting shutter speed, altering ISO or on one occasion forgot to turn the VR on, 50 shots assigned to the bin:) [/QUOTE]

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