Doh! Nikon keeps grabbing me back..

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Well... just 2 weeks after selling my Nikon 300mm f/4 AF-S + TCs and replacing it with a Sony 70-400 SSM (:bang::nuts:) I got wind of an ex-Press photo selling his stuff locally.

The result... I've now got a Nikon 300mm f/2.8 AF-S.
So... long lens duties look like its back to Nikon, with the Sony A900 covering my back for landscape work where it excels.

This is the lens monted to my D60 - David vs Goliath springs to mind :)



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Now I need to go and re-buy a set ot TCs again!!!! :help:
 
Advance comments:

My, that's a big one!

OMG, it's huge!

etc, etc... :p

Will be good to see what results you get on the 23rd Andy :thumbs:
 
I used the MF version that immediately preceded that lens for a while. It was quite beaten up, but produced some nice results.

The old Nikkors will fit on virtually anything with the right adapter.

Andy
 
AndyElliott said:
The old Nikkors will fit on virtually anything with the right adapter.

Andy
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I ordered one to mount to my Sony A900, it'll be manual focus, but because the lens has got an aperture ring, I can use it just fine.
 
puddleduck said:
I ordered one to mount to my Sony A900, it'll be manual focus, but because the lens has got an aperture ring, I can use it just fine.
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Should work well. I found there was a bit of green/purple bokeh fringing wide open, but other than that, very good. I'm sure it will work well even with a 2x TC on full frame, but that might be pushing it a bit with the 1.5x crop.

This is a good resource for how well old Niks work on DSLRs:

http://www.naturfotograf.com/lens_tele.html

Andy
 
Make sure you don't accidently pick it up by the camera Andy. That poor D60will have its mount ripped out! :eek: :lol:
Just shout when you're ready for the parcel mate. ;)


Kev.
 
As the D60 hasn't got a built in AF motor, won't this be all MF ?
but then i know someone who uses nothing but MF.
 
specialman said:
How much did you get it for Andy - a steal I take it? :)
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Very nice price indeed - not a lot more than what I got for my 300mm f/4 AF-S + TCs. Although I've had to re-buy a body, and now need to source TC's again so there is additional expense not associated with the outlay.
 
scottthehat said:
well if you decide you dont want it at some point i will give you a fiver.:D
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Its a keeper - until I source TC's I need to use my Sony 70-400 - I'm staking out a kingfisher in Fowlmere NR, just off now to ironically shoot Sony, seeing as a naked 300mm isn't long enough :)
 
puddleduck said:
Its a keeper - until I source TC's I need to use my Sony 70-400 - I'm staking out a kingfisher in Fowlmere NR, just off now to ironically shoot Sony, seeing as a naked 300mm isn't long enough :)
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Andy

Are they showing again at the Spring Hide? Have the paths returned to normal since the muppets repaired some of the hole by driving 4x4s and destroying the otherwise perfectly good paths just before Christmas? (The same people who decided to DELIBERATELY introduce pike to the waterways leading to depleted the fish stocks and the kingfishers not showing). :bang:

This was one from last year:

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(I'll come clean, a composite, no way would 2 males be on the same branch!)
 
Very nice Andy! I went out there (just got back), and its looking really manky. Just geese and ducks. I didn't expect to bowl up and get a shot, but its not looking good environmentally for them this year. I'm seeing several most days up the River Cam (Bait Bite Lock and 1 mile up and down from there)
 
puddleduck said:
Very nice Andy! I went out there (just got back), and its looking really manky. Just geese and ducks. I didn't expect to bowl up and get a shot, but its not looking good environmentally for them this year. I'm seeing several most days up the River Cam (Bait Bite Lock and 1 mile up and down from there)
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They really are (expletive deleted). I just don't understand some of the things they are doing down there. Thanks for the tip about the Cam...

I got quite a few tail end of last year in the small pond between the big lakes at Milton CP using a portable hide. I didn't try too hard, but could have done with getting closer. This was the best shot (30% crop, 2xTC + 300, 1200mm efl!!):

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What was nice there was seeing KFs doing more than just sitting on a stick - plenty of fishing going on too!
 
AndyElliott said:
They really are (expletive deleted). I just don't understand some of the things they are doing down there. Thanks for the tip about the Cam...

I got quite a few tail end of last year in the small pond between the big lakes at Milton CP using a portable hide. I didn't try too hard, but could have done with getting closer. This was the best shot (30% crop, 2xTC + 300, 1200mm efl!!):

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What was nice there was seeing KFs doing more than just sitting on a stick - plenty of fishing going on too!
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I staked out Milton CP last year with a Wildlife Watching Supplies bag hide - I do see them a lot.

At around 430 PM when you exit Milton CP and go down the road that hits the river (left is Waterbeach, right is Cambridge), you can often see a KF on the concentre bridge - it usually files to the other side of the river bank and stops when it sees me. Unfortunately that shot needs probably 800mm - the other side of the river is private land :(

Am going to try Milton CP a bit more this year as I work in Milton anyhow - last year I set a hide up for about 2 hours before work.
 
puddleduck said:
I staked out Milton CP last year with a Wildlife Watching Supplies bag hide - I do see them a lot.

At around 430 PM when you exit Milton CP and go down the road that hits the river (left is Waterbeach, right is Cambridge), you can often see a KF on the concentre bridge - it usually files to the other side of the river bank and stops when it sees me. Unfortunately that shot needs probably 800mm - the other side of the river is private land :(

Am going to try Milton CP a bit more this year as I work in Milton anyhow - last year I set a hide up for about 2 hours before work.
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Good to know of another spot to get cold and a numb backside in!!! :D

Edit: BTW, I've heard that the bag hides can be a bit problematic with very spooky birds like the KF because they can rustle - I don't know whether that is true or not!
 
AndyElliott said:
Good to know of another spot to get cold and a numb backside in!!! :D

Edit: BTW, I've heard that the bag hides can be a bit problematic with very spooky birds like the KF because they can rustle - I don't know whether that is true or not!
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Could be - never had any luck with that combo and KFs.
 
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