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Posted: **Fri Jan 21, 2005 11:44 am**

Hi All well looks like i become a member of the VR club and now it arrived this morning so have had just a lil play with it. First impressions wow this is a chunk of glass by the size of the box.LOL
I am not the best to hand hold very stable but did a couple of test pics just to try the vr out, very rough but you will get the idea.

No Vr at 400mm at 1/40sec hand held

Vr On at 400mm at 1/40sec hand held

Lens on camera at 400mm taken with my lil sony p&s

Ok now i need to go test on something that moves or other than sighns,uhhmm maybe down the lakes and see what the DUCKS are doing.LOL
Cheers
John
BBJ

Posted: **Fri Jan 21, 2005 12:10 pm**

mmm thats purdy gotta get me one of those

Posted: **Fri Jan 21, 2005 12:18 pm**

That is one hell of a weapon you have there to go duck shooting.

I reckon you should get yourself some tickets to the cricket you'd get some great shots there. You might even get in the press gallery with a beast like that!

Posted: **Fri Jan 21, 2005 1:03 pm**

I will own me one of them come July......
thanks for the fix mate :roll:

Cheers
Ray

Posted: **Fri Jan 21, 2005 1:30 pm**

Enjoy BBJ - an impressive looking piece of art on your D70 and you have proven the point with your pics on the useability of this lens.

Chris

Posted: **Fri Jan 21, 2005 4:19 pm**

Ahhh, a push pull dust vacuum like the Canon 100-400IS. I prefer the internal Zoom lenses myself because then you don't get air passing in and out of the lens during zoom. Still you should get some nice pics from it.

Posted: **Fri Jan 21, 2005 4:26 pm**

petal666 wrote:Ahhh, a push pull dust vacuum like the Canon 100-400IS. I prefer the internal Zoom lenses myself because then you don't get air passing in and out of the lens during zoom. Still you should get some nice pics from it.

petal666,
It's not the push pull zoom!

Posted: **Fri Jan 21, 2005 6:17 pm**

Yeah, now that I look at it a bit closer it has a zoom ring. My apologies for likening it to the 100-400IS

Posted: **Fri Jan 21, 2005 6:44 pm**

John,

Glad you finally got what you wanted. Now 'tis time to get that monster tripod to carry that lens.

Cheers

Matt

Posted: **Fri Jan 21, 2005 6:46 pm**

PS Looking forward to seeing some shots of the bikes.

Posted: **Fri Jan 21, 2005 6:47 pm**

petal666 wrote:Yeah, now that I look at it a bit closer it has a zoom ring. My apologies for likening it to the 100-400IS

It's much better than that. It's a Nikon!

Posted: **Fri Jan 21, 2005 8:33 pm**

Woo Hoo!!! Welcome to the club John,

I've played with the 80-400 for a while now and I'm still amazed as to just how much my keep rate has improved. I was initially anxious to see just how much difference VR really made, but after playing with one for a while, VR's now my best friend :-)

It still impresses me how it "locks" onto an image...

Cheers,
Mudder

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I got my 80-400VR

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