NIKON 70-200 NORMAL OR ACTIVE VR?

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Was reading a dealers website and they suggest that this lens should be in ACTIVE VR mode for aircraft in flight photography, not normal mode. Any comments:bang:
 
Don`t waste your money,they are overpriced and over rated for most photographic shoots.
 
Is it the same VR as the Nikkor 70-300?

If so, I was told this Active VR option works only to eliminate vertical movement not horizontal... so based on this it kinda sounds right about the aircraft.
 
Active mode works to eliminate stronger, higher frequency vibrations. Panning detection is disabled while in this mode. It tries to damp *all* motion.

Normal mode is looking to eliminate the kind of movements you make while hand-holding. These are generally lower in frequency. It also attempts to automatically detect panning motions, at which time it disables horizontal damping action.

I guess it depends on the aircraft. If it's a 747, normal mode will probably be enough. In a Cessna, you might want to consider active mode. Go figure...
 
Normal is for virtually everything.
Active is for when you're on a moving platform, such as shooting from a moving car or boat.
OFF is for tripod use, that's all there is to it.
 
Works very well hanging out the side of a Lynx helicopter, but you should be using 250th sec or higher anyway in that case which means it's pretty much redundant...
Normal mode works very well at below 100th sec when hand-held...
The 'new' VRII is supposed to be much better - I'll let you know in September when we get our new lenses to go with the new cameras we recieved last month...
 
Its on Warehouse Express site - the VR2 lens at £2k - refers to 'active' for photographing aircraft:bang:
 
1. That's not the lens you own.

2. I think it's a typo and there is a word missing.

Look at the description for the "old" 70-200VR it explains it properly.
 
I was deliberating over this lens and have decided its a nice lens but there are better ones out there at a lot less money.......after a lot of debate on here
 
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