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Here is the full article: http://www.opticsinfobase.org/ao/fulltext.cfm?uri=ao-49-16-D157&id=202488 And here a short...

And the funny thing is, back in the supposedly 'good old days' of film and mechanical cameras, the failure rate was significantly higher then today :-) We had a discussion fairly recently about...

Producing and selling cameras might be one description ;) Interesting. Have you read the Sony forums on this very site? Keep in mind they sell a fraction of Nikon in shear numbers, and yet we can...

I have used Irfanview for many years, just noticed though it cannot read shutter count in D7100 files (maybe a update is needed) but it seem to work great for all other Nikon cameras I have tried....

Agree that it is, and for many years has been, a great lens. Its getting a bit old (relatively slow AF, ineffective VR, heavy, pull-push etc), but it still performs impressively. BTW: Canon has...

Thanks! Well, my little writeup only covered the basics i guess. I only briefly looked into how the 80-400 works with a TC14, looks promising, but I cannot really say I know enough there yet. Nor...

I think lenses like the AF-S 80-400/4.5-5.6 VR will always be perceived and judged in a wide variety of ways - it is the unkind fate of any multi-purpose, utility lens. Look, lenses like say the...

Thank you! I wondered if anyone would pick up on that ;) My reasoning is this: a) it certainly is not meant to be Nikons professional grade long reach zoom lens offering, that is what the AF-S...

Thank you! There is no singular setting I use, I tend to switch around a bit. I always shoot AF-C (just because I am used to it), and with shutter priority. When shooting sports I often tend to...

That is one area where my experience would be different if I actually bought a 80-400: The 70-200 is my main breadwinner lens, and would firmly remain having that position ;) But I can see your...

It is one of those lens properties that always seem to stir up a lot of emotions and anxiety in forums. Personally I have never felt any practical ill effects from it in any way. Good to see others...

One thing that could be a bit disappointing to you (for close distances) is the pronounced focus breathing. But then the focus breathing of the 70-200 VR II is almost as pronounced. The good news...

I'll admit the situations helped a bit too :-)

I would not go as far as calling it steak, but it is meat, and it is during the feeding at the Naankuse Wwildlife Sanctuary (http://www.naankuse.com), a place where they among many other activities...

Did you seriously expected a general purpose consumer zoom to replace a twice as expensive fixed tele lens? :-) Anyway, I think the new 80-400 impresses beyond what can be seen from its benchmarks....

A 20-700/2.8 would be a very impressive lens, possibly a tad heavy and expensive though :) I'll will elaborate a bit on my experiences with the 80-400 in a separate post. But in short, I would...

1. On the contrary, it always remains a 35 mm lens no matter how you use it 2. The Nikon DX 35/1.8 actually works just fine on FX cameras (I use it very often on my D3), so it was also a...

As others have pointed out, its production ended in 2003, which is ten years ago. Also, as others have mentioned, this lens (and several of the other early AF-S designs) have been plagued with...

No it is not. The 5D Mark III has a more complex and more configurable AF, but in terms of speed, precision and overall usability they are very similar. Quality really sucks, doesn't it? What?...

Some four or five years ago people were repeatedly comparing the two AF versions (1.4 vs 1.8) and was beating that dead horse over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and...