Borrowing a Nikkor 80-200mm AF-S
Thanks to Sooz this Saturday I’ll be giving the Nikon Nikkor AF-S VR Zoom-Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8G ED-IF a run through its paces on my D200, which I am rather looking forward to.
I normally keep the Nikkor 18-200mm VR lens on my camera, and honestly its a killer daily lens. The 70-200 is twice as big, nearly 3x as expensive and likely weighs 4x as much. That being said, it’s significantly faster and much sharper. The 18-200 isn’t ‘unsharp’ but it is certainly not razor sharp like this lens. To get any sharper you must go with a prime of some sort.
I honestly hope that I don’t like the lens TOO much, as it’s $1700 (actually over 2K on Amazon) and I’d rather not add this to my wishlist of photo gear. Ken Rockwell has some killer information and review of the lens. Err, and that’s his photo of the lens above.