Is a 300mm lens necessary

[2100]

Seems to have some kind of dirt on the top left
At bigger F stop, it's not there

Do you get this speck of dust at the same place at small apertures with your other lenses? If it's still there, then it's on your AA filter. Otherwise, it looks ok.

 

[sykestang]

Thanks for the info... 70-200VR at 3.1k is a big hole in my pocket. Think will buy a 2nd hand Nikon 300mm F4 ED. Though it's a old model but still function well. My friend is selling it to me at $300. Will just buy it.

$300 ?!?!?

Grab it man... I do own a AF300 f/4, original selling price is $1900+ and 2nd hand market is $900 - $1000+

If you wanna see the picture quality, can refer to the thread started by me: http://forums.clubsnap.org/showthread.php?t=66597

If you're not getting it, offer it to fellow Nikonians here, think lots of members here would be interested! ;p

 

[espn]

I for one, would be ;p

 

[clive]

for outdoors 300mm will be bit too short
for indoors 300mm is just nice for tight crops

 

[Jed]

Okay hang on but I don't get this. You are thinking of buying a lens, but have no idea if it's going to be of any use?! I thought people bought things because they had a use for it... now I know the truth, want to buy something first, then think of a reason to use it and if you can't, get help from other people...

Remember your initial post mentioned nothing about the cheap 300/4, you even asked which 300 you should buy, suggesting there wasn't a cheap 300/4 initially... so you wanted one why? Aside from it not being necessary...

As to the 300/4. Yes 300 sounds like a good price. But if it needs a clean and repairing, then, well... you should be very very careful. But from the pictures, I'm not sure it does need a clean, but then they weren't the biggest pictures and there must be a reason why you said it needs a clean.

As to your original question, a 300 is really a neither here nor there lens particularly if you shoot with the full 24x36 dimensions. Too short for major long telephoto work, and too long for normal everyday work.

 

[Cyberian]

Okay hang on but I don't get this. You are thinking of buying a lens, but have no idea if it's going to be of any use?! I thought people bought things because they had a use for it... now I know the truth, want to buy something first, then think of a reason to use it and if you can't, get help from other people...

That's true... not so sure why I want it... maybe it's cheap

Remember your initial post mentioned nothing about the cheap 300/4, you even asked which 300 you should buy, suggesting there wasn't a cheap 300/4 initially... so you wanted one why? Aside from it not being necessary...

Good question and I have no answer to it.

As to the 300/4. Yes 300 sounds like a good price. But if it needs a clean and repairing, then, well... you should be very very careful. But from the pictures, I'm not sure it does need a clean, but then they weren't the biggest pictures and there must be a reason why you said it needs a clean.

The lens just look dirty to me.. maybe I was the the original owner.

As to your original question, a 300 is really a neither here nor there lens particularly if you shoot with the full 24x36 dimensions. Too short for major long telephoto work, and too long for normal everyday work.

Will tried to find some use for it... Anyway I have brought it.

 

[offspring]

Using D70 and believe that it does not support VR lens... so with 300mm with a 2x tc, I can get 600mm with some sacrifice on picture quality (which is ok with me). Anyway, how much is the 70-200mmVR?

Works well. Being using for 2 weeks now.