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Nikor 70-300 kit lens


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Very new and still trying to sort out all the various settings available on my D5600. I've been using my Nikor 70-300 kit lens on wildlife at the local refuge with very mixed results. At 300 mm I've used a tripod, remote shutter release, high shutter speed(1/1000) and medium aperture(f5.6-f9)  and the image seems sharp until I zoom or crop. Then it is just fuzzy enough to make the image unusable. Am I expecting too much from the lens or am I doing something stupid(very likely)? Any help would be appreciated.

 

 



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Which 70-300 do you have? If it is the VR, leaving VR on when used on a tripod can degrade the image significantly.

How much do you zoom or crop?



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Thanks for the quick response. I have the Nkikor af-p 70-300 4.5-6.3G ED(boy, that's a mouth full). With this lens I have to go into the camera menu to disable the VR which is troublesome. When I zoom to 1:1 the fuzz begins to be apparent and at 2:1 it makes the image unusable. 



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There are very few cheap lenses that look good @1:1 or beyond. They are, after all, made for reasonable reproduction sizes, not pixelpeeping.



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Thanks, it's nice to now it's just not something I've been doing.