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Stacey_K said:
ImageAmateur said:
Stacey,

Lovely photo.

One question , may sound VERY weird, but here goes. Do you find any difference in sharpness with your 80-200 at 2.8, at long range (such as 185mm) with your D700 FF vs your APS-C camera.

Yes, optics in a specific lens are its optics, there should not be a difference, but I am just wondering on something I read at some point re APS-C and FF.
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It's seems fine on APS-C but then I'm also not a pixel peeper. I would suspect that on a D7100 vs D700 you would start seeing the age of this lens, especially on the long end wide open if you are heavily cropping. Then again I haven't tested this.
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Thanks!
Stacey_K said:
One lens I have noticed seems to be more of a "full frame lens" is the 58. For some reason, it seems to lose some of the "magic" used on a crop camera.
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That would make sense re it seems designed for the strong focus to the out of focus transition. So the full frame should maximize that design. Especially wide open, but even at smaller apertures, likely some of that rendering would be lost on APS-C.

Thanks again.

 
Stacey_K said:
pjsl said:
Stacey_K said:
Stacey_K said:
at f2.8 it is not sharp
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What makes you say this?

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Stacey
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I saw the chart on center and corner sharpness results of f2.8 and f5.6
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Does this look blurry or unusable to you? And this was shot at 185mm at 1/60 @ f2.8 handheld.



That is the problem with -only- relying on "a chart". The below test seem to agree with me, it's quite good wide open but of course a couple of stops down it's better, almost every lens made is.

http://www.photozone.de/nikon_ff/764-nikonafs8020028fx?start=1

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Stacey
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Nice work

thank you for the photo

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The Camera is only a tool, photography is deciding how to use it.
The hardest part about capturing wildlife is not the photographing portion; it’s getting them to sign a model release
 
There is a push pull at the local shop if its there and in good shape I am going to pick it up
 
Ian Stuart Forsyth said:
I am looking for something in the 80-200 F2.8 FF range as a beater lens that can be left in the truck so I can have something with me. I have spotted several around for very good prices I was just wondering the image quality I can expect on the D800

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The Camera is only a tool, photography is deciding how to use it.
The hardest part about capturing wildlife is not the photographing portion; it’s getting them to sign a model release
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So I went in to look at the 80-200 F2.8 and its gone :(

But on the way to the shop I ran through my mind would this lens best serve my needs and the only thing lacking was vr. Looking at the 70-200 F4 VR and that it was on sale I walked out of the shop with it.

But thank you all for the input on the 80-200 f2.8 if I see one at a pawnshop or garage sale I think I am going to jump at it for a beater.

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The Camera is only a tool, photography is deciding how to use it.
The hardest part about capturing wildlife is not the photographing portion; it’s getting them to sign a model release
 
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