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Well recently I bought a 70-300 VRII in order to get closer to my kids soccer games in which they went to a much larger field. Fun Fun. I was using my d600 with a 80-200/2.8 and did great with that. The 80-200 lens responds well to any Shutter Speed and setting that I did. I normally shot at f/2.8 at various shutter speeds to stop action or to give a bit of ball/leg blur if it seemed good.
I bought the 70-300 recently and kind of have a love/hate relationship with it so far.
What I've noticed is that:
anything under Shutter 500 I need to leave VR ON, otherwise everything is OOF. It's like I miss my subject focusing. It's mind boggling. And I know I'm not missing my subject using AFS- Single focus point.
I put it on VR and it does alot better.
Anything above 500 Shutter and all is well with VR OFF.
My only other VR lens, the kit 18-105 and I can take photos with or without VR at any Shutter Speed.
pointing the lens towards the sun in any direction and I get enormous washout. I can get it back in post but it certainly is annoying when I first load them in Lightroom.
With AUTO ISO I get plenty of shots that are washed out while I'm not pointing into the sun- especially 45 degrees and I'm using the Big Tulip Hood. Something else annoying.
Colors - are okay but I have to really saturate blacks to get the colors back inline.
I've gotten the same results on both my d600 and d7000.
And I've used it to take photos of the Sun. It's okay, but I seem to get more detail with my 80-200/2.8
I'm curious what other's results are like with the 70-300 VR II
I'm contemplating selling it and looking at another 300mm solution.
I really do need the short focal length of 70 or 80mm though.
I bought the 70-300 recently and kind of have a love/hate relationship with it so far.
What I've noticed is that:
anything under Shutter 500 I need to leave VR ON, otherwise everything is OOF. It's like I miss my subject focusing. It's mind boggling. And I know I'm not missing my subject using AFS- Single focus point.
I put it on VR and it does alot better.
Anything above 500 Shutter and all is well with VR OFF.
My only other VR lens, the kit 18-105 and I can take photos with or without VR at any Shutter Speed.
pointing the lens towards the sun in any direction and I get enormous washout. I can get it back in post but it certainly is annoying when I first load them in Lightroom.
With AUTO ISO I get plenty of shots that are washed out while I'm not pointing into the sun- especially 45 degrees and I'm using the Big Tulip Hood. Something else annoying.
Colors - are okay but I have to really saturate blacks to get the colors back inline.
I've gotten the same results on both my d600 and d7000.
And I've used it to take photos of the Sun. It's okay, but I seem to get more detail with my 80-200/2.8
I'm curious what other's results are like with the 70-300 VR II
I'm contemplating selling it and looking at another 300mm solution.
I really do need the short focal length of 70 or 80mm though.