NIKKOR 18-200mm f/3.5-5

[RonVol]

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

[Hugh_3170]

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.

[RonVol]

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.

[richardHaw]

i had that lens for a long time. i shot news with that lens because it was so versatile
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

[RonVol]

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