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<blockquote data-quote="AK Badger" data-source="post: 66157" data-attributes="member: 9851">My hubby and I are lucky enough to get to drive into Denali Nat'l park in September.&nbsp; We got to do this last year as well, and we saw at least 20 bears and a slew of other wildlife.&nbsp; It was wonderful, but we only had my husbands Nikkor DX 18-200mm 3.5-5.6G lens and we just couldn't get the zoomed in shots we dreamed of.&nbsp; I want to be so zoomed in I can pick the boogers out of a grizzly's nose!We plan to use LensRentals.com to get a couple of telephoto lenses to bring with us.&nbsp; I'm using a D7000 which is my first DSLR and still pretty new to me (though I've at least made it through the manual <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" />).&nbsp; The lens I'm looking at renting is the Tamron 200-500mm f/5.6-6.3 SP Di LD.&nbsp; What's got me worried is there's no sort of vibration reduction and I have a pretty unsteady hand.&nbsp; Sure, I'll be bringing a tripod with me, but I don't know whether I'll be able to handle this lens even if I used our vehicle for support if I needed a quick shot.Any other lens suggestions would be welcome.&nbsp; While I didn't pick this lens because it's the cheapest, money is kind of an object.&nbsp; Not so much so that I want to cheap myself out of a decent lens, though.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="AK Badger, post: 66157, member: 9851"] My hubby and I are lucky enough to get to drive into Denali Nat'l park in September. We got to do this last year as well, and we saw at least 20 bears and a slew of other wildlife. It was wonderful, but we only had my husbands Nikkor DX 18-200mm 3.5-5.6G lens and we just couldn't get the zoomed in shots we dreamed of. I want to be so zoomed in I can pick the boogers out of a grizzly's nose! We plan to use LensRentals.com to get a couple of telephoto lenses to bring with us. I'm using a D7000 which is my first DSLR and still pretty new to me (though I've at least made it through the manual :D). The lens I'm looking at renting is the Tamron 200-500mm f/5.6-6.3 SP Di LD. What's got me worried is there's no sort of vibration reduction and I have a pretty unsteady hand. Sure, I'll be bringing a tripod with me, but I don't know whether I'll be able to handle this lens even if I used our vehicle for support if I needed a quick shot. Any other lens suggestions would be welcome. While I didn't pick this lens because it's the cheapest, money is kind of an object. Not so much so that I want to cheap myself out of a decent lens, though. [/QUOTE]

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