Nikon 2185 AF-S NIKKOR 70-200mm f/2.8G ED VR II Lens - Bulk packaging (White box, New)

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Fast, quiet AF with a silent wave motor. You won't scare sensitive subjects as other AF lenses might. Golf Course with Palm Trees and Mountains, 21 November 2016. Nikon D810, Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8 FL at 82mm at f/2.8 at 1/2,000 at Auto ISO 100. bigger or full-resolution file to explore on your computer. Desert Construction, 20 November 2016. Nikon D810, Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8E FL at 200mm at f/2.8 at 1/1,000 at Auto ISO 100. bigger or camera-original file to explore on your computer. Nikon's other 80-200 f/2.8 AF costs much less and offers the same great optics and fast f/2.8 aperture as the VR lens, but doesn't offer advantages 4~7 above. Nikon's previous 80-200mm f/2.8 AF-S offered most of the advantages of this 70-200mm VR, except for vibration reduction.

Golf Course. Palm Trees and Mountains, 21 November 2016. Nikon D810, Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8 FL at 135mm at f/8 at 1/250 at Auto ISO 100. bigger or full-resolution file to explore on your computer. The camera reads the effective lens speed (f/5.6 maximum instead of f/2.8) and actual focal length (140~400mm) with a 2x converter. Because it's gelded (" G," or has had its aperture ring removed to save cost) it's 99% useless with manual focus cameras. For manual focus cameras, the much less expensive 80-200mm f/2.8 AF-D works much better.This Nikon 70-200mm VR was Nikon's top professional zoom for news and sports photographers from its introduction in 2003 through the Fall of 2009 when it was replaced by the very similar 70-200mm VR II. Today this original 70-200 VR is still a remarkable professional lens. The only things the newer lenses do is focus a little more closely, weigh a little less, or maybe have a hair more sharpness visible only in the laboratory. Ryan waves as he goes to school, 18 November 2016. Nikon D810, Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8 FL at 70mm, f/5 at 1/125 at Auto ISO 100. bigger or full-resolution file to explore on your computer. The D500, D90, D3100, D3200, D3300, D5000, D5100, D5200, D5300, D5500, D7000, D7100, D7200, D5, D4, D4s, D600, D610, D750, D800, D800E, D810, Df and all newer cameras can be set to correct the distortion automatically in-camera —so long as you have the latest camera firmware installed in your camera! Nikon first announced the development of the AF-S VR Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8G ED-IF in February 2002, with the lens becoming available to buy in April 2003. Billed by Nikon as a 'compact, lightweight' fast telephoto, the lens features a complex optical design of 21 elements in 15 groups, including no fewer than 5 Extra-low Dispersion (ED) elements for the correction of aberrations. It improves on its predecessor, the AF-S 80-200mm f/2.8G, mainly by incorporating an optical image stabilisation unit (or in Nikon speak, 'vibration reduction'), allowing hand holding at shutter speeds up to three stops lower than normal without image degradation due to camera shake.

Flare and Ghosts, Nikon 70-200 2.8 FL, La Quinta, 21 November 2016. Nikon D810, Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8 FL at 125mm at f/11 at 1/500 at Auto ISO 100. bigger. SPORT is for use in a helicopter, sand rail, or motorcycle. SPORT is also OK for hand-holding while still, and intended for use from an unstable platform.Manual focus is easy: simply move the focus ring at any time. It just works. Tap the shutter button again for AF. Filters last a lifetime, so you may as well get the best. The Hoya HD3 stays cleaner than the others since it repels oil and dirt.

The lens' four AF buttons are much easier to reach than using the one on the camera. The lens' AF buttons are easy to use while holding the camera in any orientation. This diaphragm will not work with any of Nikon's primitive first generation DSLRs introduced before about 2007, or any 35mm camera. On these old cameras the lens shoots wide-open at f/2.8. These are the slowest speeds at which I get perfectly sharp shots 50% of the time. See Why VR Matters for details.Palm Trunk against the Mountain, 20 November 2016. Nikon D810, Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8 FL at 155mm at f/2.8 at 1/2,000 at Auto ISO 100. bigger or full-resolution file to explore on your computer. As I showed at Sample Images, it's ultra-sharp corner-to-corner, even shot wide-open at f/2.8, at any focal length. The only limitations to sharpness will be your skill as a photographer; the optics of this lens are essentially perfect.

Bokeh, the feel or quality of out-of-focus areas as opposed to how far out of focus they are, is great. Its optics and mechanics are superlative for everything a full-time career professional news or sports photographer would want to shoot with it, on any Nikon digital or modern film camera. The metal 77mm filter thread is a nice change from some of the plastic garbage Nikon sold us in earlier years. Filters spin off and spin on easily with little worry for cross-threading. Desert Fountain, 19 November 2016. Nikon D810, Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8E FL at 155mm, f/2.8 hand-held at 1/40 at Auto ISO 800. bigger or full-resolution file to explore on your computer.The pictures below illustrate the focal length range from wide to telephoto, on FX (35mm full-frame) and DX (APS-C) camera bodies: Macro performance is the best of any 70-200/2.8 because not only does this lens focus closer than any other, it doesn't cheat and shorten its actual focal length to focus closely, so we get what looks to be about twice as close compared to every other 70-200/2.8 from Nikon. The foot has two ¼″ × 20 tripod threads so you can position it for great balance with either light or heavy cameras.