Post your 70-200mm lens shots. (Any make any model)

I looked but could not find any thread like this, so I'm creating one.

Any make (Nikon,Sigma Tamron etc) any model (VRI-II -FL, G2, G1 and so on). As long as it's a 70-200, go crazy!

Users of the older Nikkor 80-200mm lenses are also welcome to post.

A few from the other weekend.


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What about the older forerunner of a Nikon 80-200mm F2.8?

Bikerbrent said:

What about the older forerunner of a Nikon 80-200mm F2.8?

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I don't know yet! I'm going to have to conviene the Hall of Justice and take a vote. Until you hear from me please don't do anything!

Blacktop said:

I looked but could not find any thread like this, so I'm creating one.

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They say great minds think alike... I was contemplating creating a 70-200mm Appreciation Thread myself a few days ago and then forgot about it...

So how ARE you liking your new Nikon 70-200mm, by the way?
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Nikon first Gen 70-200mm VR. This lens really shines on my D500.

Horoscope Fish said:

They say great minds think alike... I was contemplating creating a 70-200mm Appreciation Thread myself a few days ago and then forgot about it...

So how ARE you liking your new Nikon 70-200mm, by the way?
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I really really like it on my D500. I have not shot much with it on the D750 but from what I can tell there is not much of a difference in sharpness. I don't know what all the hoopla is about this lens sucking on a full frame body. Who the hell looks at corner sharpness at f/2.8 unless you're shooting a brick wall...sheeeshhh!

Good looking shots @snpr9696. Which version are you using?

Peacock at the Zoo.

Bikerbrent said:

What about the older forerunner of a Nikon 80-200mm F2.8?

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The Hall Of Justice has decreed that since the Nikon 70-200mm has evolved from the previous 80-200mm lens, it is permissible to post shots with any variation of said lens in this here thread.:encouragement:

Blacktop said:

Good looking shots @snpr9696. Which version are you using?

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Thank you

The version right before this latest one they just released a few months ago.


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This is a Vivitar 85-205mm ƒ/3.8 “Tele-Zoom” lens, made some time in the late 1960s or early 1970s.



I bought it in late 1986, along with a 1972-vintage F2 Photomic and two other lenses.

Stopped-down to smaller apertures, it produces nice, sharp images, but at wider apertures, it has some rather interesting aberrations, that I think tend to give images taken therewith a “dreamy” quality.

Taken with my old 80-200

One from a shoot last year. They requested blurry backgrounds so f2.8 then!

Taken with the new Tamron 70-200mm f/2.8 G2 handheld with VC enabled:

As you can tell, I shot this in portrait mode, but decided I didn't like it while processing so I cropped to landscape.

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As you can tell, I shot this in portrait mode, but decided I didn't like it while processing so I cropped to landscape.

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Is that you Pete (in the reflection)?

Marilynne said:

Is that you Pete (in the reflection)?

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You cought me.

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The more I shoot with this lens the more I'm liking it. It's almost as sharp as my 70-300mm was. (That was one sharp assed lens. Too bad it only opened up to f5.6 at the long end.)