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Hi,
Picked up a copy of the AF-S NIKKOR 300mm f/4E PF ED VR last week and used over the weekend at RIAT.
The lens is really light and a pleasure to use, however knowing that there had been a recall on Nikon's web site about VR issues with the lens, I checked that mine was outside of this range before purchasing. LINK to Nikon. It indicates that there may still be issues even after the firmware update, with D8xx bodies.
Well after many hundreds of shots with a D7200 & D810 body the problem would seem to still exist and is very noticeable at 1/125 and really bad at 1/160. At 1/250 it seems to what you might call normal i.e not every shot a keeper but you get some decent ones ( I know very unscientific).
I'm quite happy to expect a fair number of bad shots when shooting moving subjects hand held as I'm know my technique could be improved, but I was not expecting the numbers of duff images I got. Some images do indeed look like camera shake and some look like almost like a double exposure. It's not every image but quite a large percentage.
Maybe I had to much / not enough caffeine that day.
Image 1 shows what I think could be VR D7200 1/160 f11
Image 2 shows what I think could be VR D7200 1/125 f13
Image 3 shows what I would call camera shake / motion blur D7200 1/125 f8
image 4 is at 1/250 and hand held where the problem seems to be gone. This was the pick from that sequence, none of the others showed anything like examples 1-3 although they were not what i'd call keepers.
Any one else having this experience ?
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#4 in rubbish light drizzle / light rain.
BBMF : Spitfire TE311 (Mk LF XVIE) by Jerry Hawker, on Flickr
Picked up a copy of the AF-S NIKKOR 300mm f/4E PF ED VR last week and used over the weekend at RIAT.
The lens is really light and a pleasure to use, however knowing that there had been a recall on Nikon's web site about VR issues with the lens, I checked that mine was outside of this range before purchasing. LINK to Nikon. It indicates that there may still be issues even after the firmware update, with D8xx bodies.
Well after many hundreds of shots with a D7200 & D810 body the problem would seem to still exist and is very noticeable at 1/125 and really bad at 1/160. At 1/250 it seems to what you might call normal i.e not every shot a keeper but you get some decent ones ( I know very unscientific).
I'm quite happy to expect a fair number of bad shots when shooting moving subjects hand held as I'm know my technique could be improved, but I was not expecting the numbers of duff images I got. Some images do indeed look like camera shake and some look like almost like a double exposure. It's not every image but quite a large percentage.
Maybe I had to much / not enough caffeine that day.
Image 1 shows what I think could be VR D7200 1/160 f11
Image 2 shows what I think could be VR D7200 1/125 f13
Image 3 shows what I would call camera shake / motion blur D7200 1/125 f8
image 4 is at 1/250 and hand held where the problem seems to be gone. This was the pick from that sequence, none of the others showed anything like examples 1-3 although they were not what i'd call keepers.
Any one else having this experience ?
#1
View attachment 42184
#2
View attachment 42185
#3
View attachment 42187
#4 in rubbish light drizzle / light rain.
BBMF : Spitfire TE311 (Mk LF XVIE) by Jerry Hawker, on Flickr