PerfectPoms

No.  F/2 to F/2.8 is a full stop - so your shutter speed will be half the speed - in other words, the F/2 lets twice as much light into the camera.

If money is no object, consider the 120-300 f2.8 Nikon lens.  It's now my most used lens.  I rarely take out the 180-400 f4 lens now (with built in teleconverter). It's expensive, and heavy, but an ...

I chuckle to myself when I read threads where people complain about the noise the D850 makes - because the D5 is clearly louder than the D850, and the D6 is clearly louder than the D5. I noticed a ...

I think what also peeves people off so much is that many of us would sell a kidney to have one of the great rare big Nikon primes - and we would USE THEM - and love them so much by working them in ...

The previous D6 firmware release was only weeks ago.  This one seems inconsequential.  I can't be bothered doing this one.

I'm talking about using the High Speed Flash Sync mode which takes a bunch of little flashes quickly to overcome the one lit stripe, but the result of using this mode is you get a MUCH less ...

Ken Rockwell may have written that 'everything' works with the Dii back before the version 3 TC had been created. I'm pretty certain the version II 1.4 x TC works with the Dii.

I'm absolutely no expert on flash photography, so other people who use flash often can tell you much more, with greater authority and experience, but remember that if you increase the shutter ...

3 things will probably help: A much faster lens, A D5 or D6, I would tend to use the best flash I have - and maybe add a bounce type reflector on the top of it, or a bracket, etc. About your choice ...

In Canada, after about a year, most places listed the 180-400 for $14,999, down from $15,549.

If I could only use ONE lens - it WOULD be the 180-400.  And despite what you've heard about this lens at 400mm, I'm VERY happy with the performance of mine at 400mm f4. My major complaint is the ...

There has been NO HINT of a mirrorless 200 f2 or 300 2.8 coming ANYTIME soon. And the exceptional 120-300 2.8 makes any new lightweight E FL versions of those lenses in mirrorless or SLR mounts ...

If you have to have a 180-400, I could trade you mine for your 600 f4, and maybe some cash :) But my 180-400 is not unused.  It used to be my main lens, but I've almost not touched it since I got ...

I don't think there is any problem with hot cards in Nikon cameras, but I recently lost over 800 images when one of my almost new Lexar cards crapped out.  I had become concerned that my Lexar ...

Brad Hill says the (NEWEST) Sigma 500 f4 is the equal of the Nikon e fl: http://www.naturalart.ca/artist/fieldtests/500mmwars_sigma_nikon.html One difference, the Sigma may not track moving ...

The other issue with Sigma and Tamron is AF tracking and accuracy. Nikon doesn't let other companies know what is going on inside the chips of their cameras, so Sigma has to 'guess' and backwards...

And I did try the Sigma 100-400, and had no complaint with the sharpness of that lens, but I absolutely could NOT live with the zoom direction being reversed from the Nikon direction, especially...

Granted, that it was long ago, but I bought the much older Sigma 50-500 and returned it and a year or two bought it again and returned it.

The new Sigma superzooms may be a lot better than that...

Haven't used the new lenses enough to comment on focus speed. One reviewer said the 105 1.4 was very fast to focus. But you never know the experience of a reviewer, and what THEY mean by fast...

What other lens gives you the range of 180mm to 560mm? In ONE lens? (And don't even mention the Sigma or Tamron superzooms - unless you are happy with their image quality.)

The Nikon 180-400 is...