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<blockquote data-quote="J-see" data-source="post: 436914" data-attributes="member: 31330">My experience with VR is that it helps a lot when shooting slow shutter single shots. Depending what lens you use, there's in each case a minimum shutter required to get sharp shots handheld. The moment you go lower in shutter speed your ratio of sharp shots decreases. You can get around it by shooting burst which often has at least one of them sharp. But that works only that far.For those shots, VR improves your odds at a sharp shot but it's not as if it guarantees sharp shots. There's still something like shooting technique required and understanding the limits of VR.For shutters speeds faster than 1/500s Nikon advises to turn VR off. My experience with fast shutters and VR is that there's little benefit to it and during bursts, it works against me. When I shoot fast bursts with VR enabled, I have fewer sharp shots than when I shoot the same with VR disabled.Why that's the case we can theorize about but it's unlikely we will come to an agreement. So take my problems with VR as anecdotal.I'd not enable it when you use the minimum (or faster) shutter required for a sensor/focal length combination.Would I buy a lens for the VR alone? No.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="J-see, post: 436914, member: 31330"] My experience with VR is that it helps a lot when shooting slow shutter single shots. Depending what lens you use, there's in each case a minimum shutter required to get sharp shots handheld. The moment you go lower in shutter speed your ratio of sharp shots decreases. You can get around it by shooting burst which often has at least one of them sharp. But that works only that far. For those shots, VR improves your odds at a sharp shot but it's not as if it guarantees sharp shots. There's still something like shooting technique required and understanding the limits of VR. For shutters speeds faster than 1/500s Nikon advises to turn VR off. My experience with fast shutters and VR is that there's little benefit to it and during bursts, it works against me. When I shoot fast bursts with VR enabled, I have fewer sharp shots than when I shoot the same with VR disabled. Why that's the case we can theorize about but it's unlikely we will come to an agreement. So take my problems with VR as anecdotal. I'd not enable it when you use the minimum (or faster) shutter required for a sensor/focal length combination. Would I buy a lens for the VR alone? No. [/QUOTE]

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