Re: B&H has the Nikon D700 in stock

On 2008-07-31 16:23:57 +0100, Paul Furman <paul-@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:

1.4 and 2x with a little tab ground off to allow stacking them.

Didn't know that one could do that.

The 500 really is dramatically better than the 300 even though the 70-200 goes to 560mm with stacked converters. The 1.4 is really nice and surprisingly small. I was lucky to get it used for $50, a little metal rim was bent, easily bent back. The stacked TCs definitely take a lot out of image quality but testing, it really does resolve more detail assuming you are cropping and over-enlarging anyways. Absolute sharpness corner to corner suffers though.

BTW I've got a D200 so 300mm looks like 450mm on full frame.

Yes, I have a D300.




Here's what you really need on a D3 (600mm f/4 VR):
http://edgehill.net/gallery/photo-update/2-17-08/pg3pc15
-that's a really wide angle shot & the angle exaggerates considerably but yes he was actually able to use it hand held on an experimental basis (rental). The last 2 sections are just lens shade and the 300 gets a whole lot bigger with the shade on too. Another guy on that outing had a 200-400 f/4 VR that he was very happy with for wildlife shooting. It was sort of a reasonable size.

That was another one in the frame (as it were).


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