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Which lens
#1
Posted 29 August 2019 - 07:01 AM
#2
Posted 29 August 2019 - 09:20 AM
The 55-300 is no slouch, but the AF-S 70-300 VR loses even less contrast at the long end. Keep away from the AF-P lenses as the D300 can't use that AF motor since it is many generations more modern than the body. The third-party 70-300 lenses are all from before their makers raised their quality.
What is you intended use for the lens? Are you sure that 300 mm will be enough? There is little, if any, room to crop with the 12 MP sensor.
#3
Posted 29 August 2019 - 09:22 AM
There is little, if any, room to crop with the 12 MP sensor.
Very little, if any… indeed!
#4
Posted 29 August 2019 - 01:21 PM
The 55-300 is no slouch, but the AF-S 70-300 VR loses even less contrast at the long end. Keep away from the AF-P lenses as the D300 can't use that AF motor since it is many generations more modern than the body. The third-party 70-300 lenses are all from before their makers raised their quality.
What is you intended use for the lens? Are you sure that 300 mm will be enough? There is little, if any, room to crop with the 12 MP sensor.
hi merco_61 I intend to use it for flowers insects butterflys etc stuff that I cannot get close enough too use other lenses, by close I mean within a few metres, if you know what I mean, something which is likely to jump or fly away, I have the tokina 12 to 24 ,Nikon 18 to 55, sigma 105 macro,Nikon 55 to 200 just need something a little longer.
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#5
Posted 29 August 2019 - 03:12 PM
I used my 70-300 VR on a crop body for two weeks running in 2018 for my one camera, one lens challenge.
The focal length used is in the file name for each photo.
This might give an idea of what the lens can do.
#6
Posted 29 August 2019 - 04:20 PM
thanks again , good range of shots, and good idea to get used to any lens, so which model should I be looking at ? As there seems to be a few different ones I know about the AFP range not working with d300.I used my 70-300 VR on a crop body for two weeks running in 2018 for my one camera, one lens challenge.
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The focal length used is in the file name for each photo.
This might give an idea of what the lens can do.
#7
Posted 29 August 2019 - 08:30 PM
There is only one Nikon 70-300 with VR and AF-S. It was made from 2006 to 2017. The versions without VR are all more like 70-230 lenses as the sharpness and contrast goes down so much at the long end.