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Vibration Reduction

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 May 2011

Either I have learned to hand hold a 600 mm (equivalent) lens or the VR works on the D300S as well. Aircraft, shipping, distant landscape features show no trace of shake, even at sub one hundreth exposures and I am sure it is the lens and not me that is doing the stuff.

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michael c herring

Zooms out, zooms in or vice-versa and stops in ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 December 2017

Zooms out, zooms in or vice-versa and stops in the out-of-focus position.
Worth a third of what it cost as a trade-in, stupidly I've still got it virtually unused.
Should have cut my losses then.

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AKW

Vibration Reduction

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 May 2011

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Phil Richmond

A Quality piece of glass

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 September 2013

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I believe that this was Nikons first VR lens.
It's quite easy to achieve good results handheld.
Very good value for money secondhand.

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alanscape

Great lens needing an up-grade.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 February 2013

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Can't do justice to 24mp plus but still the best around... used with adapter on Fuji X-Pro to good effect.

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Mr.

very good lens

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 March 2014

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I do like this lens a lot a lot better than the sigma 500mm bit heavy but you forget that when you get the shots. all in all good buy

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michael c herring

Zooms out, zooms in or vice-versa and stops in ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 December 2017

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Zooms out, zooms in or vice-versa and stops in the out-of-focus position.
Worth a third of what it cost as a trade-in, stupidly I've still got it virtually unused.
Should have cut my losses then.

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Mr. Douglas Melhuish

Nikon 80-400 AF VR lens

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 September 2009

I received this lens about 4 weeks ago. I was originally doubtful regarding being able to handle this lens without a tripod, however, after a session lasting over an hour photographing paragliders and an all day session photographing a wedding,virtually all hand held I now appreciate the value of image stabilisation. This lens is superb, incredibaly sharp images can be obtained.
Only faults are slow focussing and often only stays focussed for very short time.
Excellent lens and well worth the money.

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John

Be cause it is Nikon

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 March 2013

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Ihae used this lens it is very good. I only had it a short time and had to send it to Nikon for repair,

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HewMe

Not the best lens ever produced by Nikon

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 April 2014

I bought this lens thinking I could use it for nature shots (birds, animals ..) and as a longer reach replacement for my very sharp, quick, silent, small and light 70-300mm VR.

I was wrong on all accounts .. I was warned by all the review websites that it is soft, slow and hesitant to focus, and very noisy and I thought that can't be all true .. after all Nikon had no similar lens in the same range for a long time while Canon always had the 100-400 IS L lens .. so I must try it out ..

Build wise it is okay apart from the lens extending to almost twice as long when zooming out with hood on .. the tripod collar makes any use of the aperture ring if you were ever going to use it obsolete .. the reversed hood makes the use of the zoom and focus rings impossible as they are both covered ..

Performance .. where do I start .. it is very noisy and clunky .. so it really rocks when focusing .. it is very slow to focus and I really mean very slow .. and when it does at last it is still hesitant and may try again for some odd reason .. I have used it on Nikon D600 and I use a similar D lens the 80-200mm f2.8 the non AF-S and it is not like that in any way ..

When it focuses it is spot on .. but after a lot of convincing and deliberating and debating it does focus .. yet the results inspite of the VR are never very sharp .. good sharp but not very good or excellent .. the 70-300mm VR is a better lens inspite of not being a professional quality les and selling for less than £300 used. The reach difference is not that huge between 300-400mm and if I really want a bird lens I would go for a 500mm+

Summary .. do not buy it .. there are better alternatives in the house including the twice as expensive new 80-400mm AF-S Nano VR .. I would either go for the AF-S VR MK-II or settle for the 70-300 AF-S VR until I save the money for MK-II.

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Erik De Koster

razorblade sharp, somewhat slow

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 21 December 2006

I have had this lens for a year now, and I still am extremely pleased with it. Even wide open it is quite sharp at 400 mm (some other reviewers say it is sharp until 300 mm but becomes soft at 400mm, mine does not). Focusing is not as fast as on AF-S lenses. Nikon alternatives are a. the 400mm F4, b. the überzoom 200-400 (a. and b. cost a multiple of the 80-400), c. a 2 times teleconvertor on the AFS 70-200VR which gives faster focusing but slightly softer images and is more expensive, d. a 1.4 times teleconvertor on a 300 F4, which costs about the same as the 80-400, does have AFS although the teleconvertor slows it down, but lacks the convenience of a zoom, or e. a 1.4 times teleconvertor on the glorious 300 F2.8, but this once again costs a multiple of the price of the 80-400.
To be short: the 80-400 is an affordable way to get excellent results up to 400 mm, if speed is not important. If speed is important and zoom is not, the most affordable alternative is the 300F4 + 1.4TC.

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S. A. Challis

Beware - autofocus does not work with D40 series

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 May 2010

I bought this lens having read (I thought) all the reviews, only to discover that autofocus does not work with the D40 camera I had bought for my office. It works fine with my own D80. Buried away in the instruction manual it says that it does not work with the D40 series cameras. Beware if you have a D40.

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