The Old Nikon 80-400mm f/4.5-5.6D a good buy for wildlife?

Hi,

Iam looking into getting the 80-400mm to shoot along side my 300mm f/4 for the birds. Does anyone have any experience with this lens and any sample images would be brill from bodies like, D7100 D300 D700 and pro series of cameras and is whats the focusing speed like? Is it fast on a good body as i have heard online!

Cheers

​Joe

Just add I will be using the limiter 90% of the time

​Cheers

just get the nikon 1.4tc for your 300f4. the older 80-400 vr is not well rated for focus speed or sharpness.

I have got the 1.4x Converter for my 300mm f/4 Iam just looking for a lens good for travelling with me, that has a good zoom, I found this image online taken at 400mm f/5.6 and looks really good

http://www.pbase.com/image/110147832/original.jpg

As I said Iam just looking for a good zoom to travel with along side with my 24-70mm

in that case i would go for the 70-300vr, or if you really must have 400mm at the long end then i would pick the sigma 120-400 os over the older nikon 80-400mm vr. it has similar performance and costs less.

I have the older 80-400 and I like it, sure it is a bit slow focussing but you can get around that. I am sure if you search on here there will be some shots from this lens.

Just found my link - http://nikonites.com/telephoto/8065-photos-taken-my-80-400mm-vr-lens.html#axzz2fFXZmqox some were even taken with my D80 Also my Africa trip was with the old 80-400mm VR - http://nikonites.com/learning-photography/13619-africa-2013-a.html#axzz2fFZiI650. Take a look and see for yourself.