NikonGear'23
Gear Talk => Lens Talk => Topic started by: RonVol on March 31, 2016, 01:42:04
-
AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR II
Sometimes I'm pleasantly surprised by what this lens is capable of.
Normally the shots I get at the long-end can be a bit soft.
But every now-and-again I think the lens 'nails it'.
Shot is of an Australian owl, the Southern Boobook...........also sometimes called a Mopoke.
Taken with a D7000 @ 200mm
ISO 200
f/5.6
1/1000s
-
Ron, you have done well to nail a shot of these most elusive of critters. Their New Zealand cousin (often called Moreporks rather than Mopokes - but the same call), are equally hard to find & isolate, yet from the presence of their calls there are enough of them around, especially in the country areas.
-
Ron, you have done well to nail a shot of these most elusive of critters.
Thanks Hugh.
Yes, I was most chuffed to capture this - in the wild - in the middle of the day!
I was searching the hollows along a band of rock looking for indigenous art sites when I happened upon the owl.
I think we ended up scaring each other.
Fortunately it stayed put long enough for me to ready the camera.
-
i had that lens for a long time. i shot news with that lens because it was so versatile :o :o :o
i can take pictures of property on fire, inside the precint or whatever. all with so so results but publishable on small thumbnail or editorials. grain and resolution was never a problem for lores newsprint back home.
that lens was also considered an engineering marvel of some sorts back then ::)
-
Another shot taken with this very versatile lens.
A pair of Gang-Gangs, male left..............female right.
Taken with a D7000 @ 200mm
ISO 250
f/5.6
1/1600s