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I am looking for a lens for my D5100 im going to be using it for video not pictures and I want to be able to zoom in on a elk that is about a mile away (im using it for hunting) I would like it to be under $200 if possible. Tell me what you guys think.
 
Video or stills, to zoom in on an elk that is about 5280 feet away would require a long telephoto lens in the 2000 - 3000 mm range
There are some el cheapo manual focus, manual exposure fixed aperture lenses that can get out about 1000 mm using a 2x tele-extender that make the effective lens aperture about f/16 - Opteka High Definition 500mm / 1000mm f/8 Preset Telephoto Lens for Nikon

Here is a shot of an eagle made with a focal length of 500 mm on a 1.5x crop camera body. The eagle was about 200 feet away.
I used this lens - Sigma 150-500mm f/5-6.3 AF APO DG OS HSM Telephoto Zoom Lens for Nikon

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I am looking for a lens for my D5100 im going to be using it for video not pictures and I want to be able to zoom in on a elk that is about a mile away (im using it for hunting) I would like it to be under $200 if possible. Tell me what you guys think.

Umm.. yup. Keith pretty much nailed it in one there.
 
whats a good lens that is like 500m but has x2 so it can go to 1000m. Also what is the most zoom I can get for $200.
 
I am looking for a lens for my D5100 im going to be using it for video not pictures and I want to be able to zoom in on a elk that is about a mile away (im using it for hunting) I would like it to be under $200 if possible. Tell me what you guys think.
Me to!! I paid $1,000 for a 500mm lens. I'd LOVE to have a 2000mm lens for under $200!

Nope. The second link is for a Nikon 1 and won't work on a D5100. The second one, in the description, says it's for a Pentax. Even if it would fit it's manual focus, has no image stabilization, is very, very slow at f/8.0, and probably has the optical quality of a soda bottle.

Facts are facts: Good lenses are expensive. Long focal length good lenses are even more expensive.
 
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I am looking for a lens for my D5100 im going to be using it for video not pictures and I want to be able to zoom in on a elk that is about a mile away (im using it for hunting) I would like it to be under $200 if possible. Tell me what you guys think.
Me to!! I paid $1,000 for a 500mm lens. I'd LOVE to have a 2000mm lens for under $200!

Nope. The second link is for a Nikon 1 and won't work on a D5100. The second one, in the description, says it's for a Pentax. Even if it would fit it's manual focus, has no image stabilization, is very, very slow at f/8.0, and probably has the optical quality of a soda bottle.

Facts are facts: Good lenses are expensive. Long focal length good lenses are even more expensive.
The first link is for a nikon look in the title.
 
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It dosnt have to be the best quality just so I can see the elk.
 
Yup.. a couple of things here, at 1000 mm even the tiniest movement of the camera is going to cause a huge jump in the video - so the camera is going to have to be rock solid stable which means to have much hope in pulling this off you're probably going to need a tripod that will cost you more than what your hoping to spend on the lens.

The only lenses in the 500 mm range you can get for less than $200 are going to be .. well, let me be honest, they will be garbage. Your looking most likely at a prime lens (no zoom) with very bad optical quality, manual focus only with a starting aperture as Scraig mentioned of f 8.0 - add a 2x teleconverter onto that and you lose two F stops of light right there, so your starting at F10 - which means unless your subject is very well lit your video will most likely turn out to be about he same quality as most bigfoot videos I've seen. The minute your subject changes distances (moves) your video will go out of focus and will have to be refocused, and even with a great tripod underneath it you'll most likely cause a huge jump doing that, then you'll have to reaquire - etc.

Really to do this and have any hope of pulling it off you're probably going to have to add another zero onto the end of your budget, spend at least $1000 or more on a 500 mm lens with some sort of image stablization, another $200-$400 on a teleconverter, and another $250+ on a good tripod. Otherwise, well I hate to tell you this but you'd just be throwing your money away.
 
Here, I performed a search on E-Bay for lenses less than $200.

Camera Lenses and Filters | eBay

It looks like you can get a 300mm lens and a 2X tele-adaptor for your budget, so that makes for a focal length of 600mm. Good shooting!
 
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Here, I performed a search on E-Bay for lenses less than $200.

Camera Lenses and Filters | eBay

It looks like you can get a 300mm lens and a 2X tele-adaptor for your budget, so that makes for a focal length of 600mm. Good shooting!
lol if it was that easy I wouldn't be asking you guys, iv already done that.
 
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Here, I performed a search on E-Bay for lenses less than $200.

Camera Lenses and Filters | eBay

It looks like you can get a 300mm lens and a 2X tele-adaptor for your budget, so that makes for a focal length of 600mm. Good shooting!
lol if it was that easy I wouldn't be asking you guys, iv already done that.


And if it were cheap, the entire lot of Nikon shooters on this site would have told you how already.
 
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Here, I performed a search on E-Bay for lenses less than $200.

Camera Lenses and Filters | eBay

It looks like you can get a 300mm lens and a 2X tele-adaptor for your budget, so that makes for a focal length of 600mm. Good shooting!
lol if it was that easy I wouldn't be asking you guys, iv already done that.

Well you might be able to a cheap 300 mm and a cheap teleconverter for under 200 - if you want something with no image stablization, but of course that puts you right back into needing a tripod - but to be honest even with VR shooting video at 600 mm would be pretty challenging to say the least. Also the teleconverters you can generally buy for less than $200 are pretty bad optically, so I wouldn't expect much as far as image quality in the video. Again you'll probably end up with something that looks a lot like one of those UFO/Bigfoot sighting videos.
 
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