The Only Super Moon of 2017 (lens comparisons)

[DGMPhotography]

Got pictures of the super moon tonight, and used it as an opportunity to compare my lenses.

Here are the 3 lenses I used:



My Nikkor 70-300, my new Tamron 70-200 G2, and an old film lens I got from @480sparky

I shot the Nikkor at 3oomm, and the Tamron and old lens at 200mm.

I was mostly curious to see if the Tamron at 200mm was better cropped. I took screen caps with them all zoomed in to the same size.

Tamron @200mm

Nikon @300mm

Old Lens @200mm


I was surprised to see that the 200mm cropped was about the same quality as the 300mm. Neat!

 

[Derrel]

The second image looks the most crisp and clear to me. The 70-300 VR-G is not "all that hot" at focal lengths above 200mm...at least mine is not. Not too surprising that the Tamron 70-200 looks so good: it's a much more-expensive and a much newer lens design than the consumer-oriented 70-300 VR-G, which is well over a decade old now, and was never really designed for modern, high-megapixel digital imaging.

 

[DGMPhotography]

The second image looks the most crisp and clear to me. The 70-300 VR-G is not "all that hot" at focal lengths above 200mm...at least mine is not. Not too surprising that the Tamron 70-200 looks so good: it's a much more-expensive and a much newer lens design than the consumer-oriented 70-300 VR-G, which is well over a decade old now, and was never really designed for modern, high-megapixel digital imaging.

Crap... just realized I mislabeled them by mistake. The second one is actually the 70-300 VR-G

It's been edited/corrected.