Question:
I know 80 – 400 lenses is not out yet. I talked to the camera shop, they said both prices are the same. Which one will be better? thanks.
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I know 80 – 400 lenses is not out yet. I talked to the camera shop, they said both prices are the same. Which one will be better?
If I could predict the future like that, I’d be on eTrade right now, not a photo newsgroup… — Craig Zeni – REPLY TO — clzeni at mindspring dot com http://www.mindspring.com/~clzeni/index.html http://www.trainweb.org/zeniphotos/zenihome.html Baby, would you eat that there snack cracker in your special outfit for me, please?
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We’re on rec.photo.EQUIPMENT.35mm.
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I know 80 – 400 lenses is not out yet. I talked to the camera shop, they said both prices are the same. Which one will be better? If I could predict the future like that, I’d be on eTrade right now, not a photo newsgroup… — Craig Zeni – REPLY TO — clzeni at mindspring dot com http://www.mindspring.com/~clzeni/index.html http://www.trainweb.org/zeniphotos/zenihome.html Baby, would you eat that there snack cracker in your special outfit for me, please?
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Maverick, I know 80 – 400 lenses is not out yet. I talked to the camera shop, they said both prices are the same. Which one will be better?
Better for what? Until there are actual samples of the 80-400 for people to test in the field, one can only guess how the image quality of the two lenses will compare. One is a fast f/2.8 zoom, the other is a slow f/4.5-5.6 zoom with VR (and no one yet knows how well VR will perform in the field). If VR performs as advertised this could be a good lens for those of us who subject ourselves to pelagic wildlife photgraphy – that’s the only situation that I have run into where I have felt "IS" envy. -Scott
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I know that – but you’re asking for somebody to predict the quality of an item that nobody outside of Nikon has seen yet…thus my comment about predicting the future. We’re on rec.photo.EQUIPMENT.35mm. I know 80 – 400 lenses is not out yet. I talked to the camera shop, they said both prices are the same. Which one will be better? If I could predict the future like that, I’d be on eTrade right now, not a photo newsgroup…
– Craig Zeni – REPLY TO — clzeni at mindspring dot com http://www.mindspring.com/~clzeni/index.html http://www.trainweb.org/zeniphotos/zenihome.html Baby, would you eat that there snack cracker in your special outfit for me, please?
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If you need a fast lens (AF speed and constant fast aperture) then get the AF-S 80-200 2.8. If you need VR but don’t need/are about constant fast aperture get the 80-400 VR wrotf: – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -I know 80 – 400 lenses is not out yet. I talked to the camera shop, they said both prices are the same. Which one will be better? thanks.
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