Opportunity to get a D3100..

  • Thread starter Thread starter 4p
  • Start date Start date

4p

4p

4p

Soldato
Joined
20 Jun 2006
Posts
8,411
Location
Capital of The North
For £300, inc the VR lens. May as well. Brand new.

Really need a 300mm lens for wildlife shooting though, can anybody recommend one outside of Nikon (quite expensive :D) ?
 
It's the D3100 :)

Well in Currys the Nikon 70-300mm was around £350 :o

I heard Tamron can work with Nikon?
 
Tarmon generally have a slightly sluggish AutoFocus so maybe not ideal for wildlife. Sigma do a 70-300mm 5.6 but its not as good as the Nikkor though chances are unless you're a pixel peeper then you won't notice too much difference.
 
Tamron AF 70-300mm F4-5.6 Di LD Macro 1:2 Nikon+Motor

£99.95

que?
 
Nikon AF-S VR 70-300 f/4.5-5.6G IF-ED

£342.34

That the lens i should be looking at? The camera is actually £220, so spending so much on a 300mm seems a little bit easier now :p
 
Thorpy said:
It's the D3100 :)

Well in Currys the Nikon 70-300mm was around £350 :o

I heard Tamron can work with Nikon?
Click to expand...

Have a look at the Nikon 55-300 DX VR. It is almost as good as the Nikon 70-300VR but made much cheaper and only covers crops sensors. Goes for 236GBP online.

The Tamron 70-300 VC is very good but not miuch cheaper than the Nikon 70-300 VR.

Both Sigma and Tamron make cheaper 70-300 lenses but their performance isn-t great. I had a Sigma 70-300 APO as a begginer lens on a 6MP Nikon D70. It was OK but was really too soft at 300mm even when stopped down and the focus was very slow. With a 12MP and more sensors I think the value of these cheap 70-300 lens is not really apparent.


I can say that the Nikon 70-300 VR gives professional performance up to 220mm or so, and very good to 300mm if you can stop down a little.
 
D.P. said:
I can say that the Nikon 70-300 VR gives professional performance up to 220mm or so, and very good to 300mm if you can stop down a little.
Click to expand...

I don't mean to hijack or anything but what does 'stop down a little' mean? I a noob you see :)
 
Stopping down means going a few F-Stops down from Wide open. e.g. a f5.6 lens will have a sweet spot at about f8.

At least how I understand it :P

...beaten to it.
 
Thorpy said:
Tamron AF 70-300mm F4-5.6 Di LD Macro 1:2 Nikon+Motor

£99.95

que?
Click to expand...

Alpherah said:
Its terrible, really terrible.
The more expensive APO is at least usable, the non APO version .. stay well away
Click to expand...

It is not good at all, even as a beginner with a D3100 I could spot that. I bought one and took it back two days later (took a day before I could test it properly at the 20:20 cricket) Auto focus would hunt really badly a lot and it got quite soft at the longer end of the focal range. I took it back and then bought a 55-200 Nikor which although shorter, I find a lot better and will do for now as it only cost £150 with AF-S and VR.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom