Derrel
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What about this one Harfang des Neiges / Snowy Owl / Bubo scandiacus / Ookpik I am tough, this is true, a bird should not have wings, it should have feathers, that are composed of individual hairs arranged in a pattern. A well composed photo is not necessarily a sharp photo, I need sharper than this to make the lens viable for me to buy. Imgur: The most awesome images on the Internet Also take this duck in flight shot that looks great on one hand, but on a sharper hand the feathers are one piece each, they do not have any parts they have complete smoothness. The color and composure it perfect as is the focus, but there is just absolutely no details Flying DuckThanks, those are all well composed photos, but there is not one crystal clear photo in the bunch Such as this one, it's soft to the point of blurry when you enlarge it. Long Tailed Tit at Marquenterre Is that really a $1500.00 photo?Do the feathers on the bird have details, or can you see only whole feathers?yep, looks like a excellent lens from the hand full of photos i have seen posted with it. great shot, looks like a egrit to me
check out these links, lots of photos taken with the nikon 200-500mm lens. you can check them out and see what you think.
Nikkor AF-S 200-500mm f/5.6E ED VR | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
well there is 3 thousand some photos in that group and you are referring to one photo.. some of those photos are excellent and some are not. you got to remember everyone gets subpar shots at times, even the really good photographers but it could have been a bird they have never saw before so they kept the photo or who knows what., also not all people are great at photography or they are just getting started at bird photography and not getting the best photos yet. you could spend 20k lens and still get bad photos if you do not now what you are doing, and even if you do know what you are doing i doubt ever photo you take is going to be perfect. or the bird could have been really far away and they had to crop the photo allot which can kill the image quality.. everyone on here posting photos with that lens seems to be getting some nice photos with it
bottom line is this, if you want to really know how good the lens is, read reviews, lots of them. looks at as many photos taken with the lens as you can. maybe rent one if you are interested but not sure how you will like it. or by it from a place that has a no questions asked return policy and if your not happy with it send it back..
You seem to be unaware of the many basics of digital photography...you're pointing us to TWO, individual, web-sized JPEGs, and one of them has had a sh*+ ton of noise reduction and smoothing done to it. Those are rudimentary factors. I noticed that you just joined TPF today, to pose questions and to run down a lens you apparently cannot afford.
The owl photo you linked to? A smallish screen-size JPEG reduction, yet even down-sized hugely, it still shown a lot of evidence of TONS of detail, down to the individual fibers that make up the small feathers covering the birds lower legs...but apparently, you cannot see the impact of the size reduction on the image.
"I need sharper than this to make the lens viable for me to buy."
We've SEEN what the lens can do in the hands of a capable shooter...for the price, it's obviously a stellar performer. Oh, and by the way--that drake mallard takes up about 12 percent of the total, entire frame area...annnnd it was at ISO 1,250....aaaaand it's pretty apparent that it has had every single bit of digital noise smoothed out of the file...aaaaand the file is tiny on my 30 inch Cinema Display. Seriously: you can NOT judge the quality of a lens by random peoples' web-reduced images with noise reduction and MASSIVELY size-reduced images processed in God only knows what manner...
I got a worm in an apple once...but you know what, that doesn't mean the whole tote of apples was bad...