Nikon fit tele zooms

[Dr Jekyll]

I'm after a 70-200 or 70-300 zoom to fit a Nikon DSLR. DX at the moment but may well change to FX in future. I'm after vibration reduction, f4 would be nice. Any recommendations? Can go up to £1000 but wold prefer around £500 if the difference isn't too dramatic.

[Vintage Racer]

If you shop around, you should be able to find a new Nikon 70-200 f4 for your upper budget.

It's a brilliant lens and in my opinion, just as good as the older f2.8 if used on a modern body. - I use mine with my D500 crop sensor.





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[Turn7]

70-200 vrii 2.8 is one of Nikons finest, but the 70-300vr is very good VFM.....

The 200 will take TCs well also.

[SCEtoAUX]

70-200 f/2.8 First VR model, not the VRII

If you can cope with the weight it is just sublime, with Lightroom getting rid of the vignetting.

You'll find a good example for £700 with a bit of looking and when you sell it you'll see most of that back.

[tonyb1968]

Vintage Racer said:

If you shop around, you should be able to find a new Nikon 70-200 f4 for your upper budget.

It's a brilliant lens and in my opinion, just as good as the older f2.8 if used on a modern body. - I use mine with my D500 crop sensor.





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I agree, its a great lens for the money, nearly half the price of the 2.8E, its also much lighter and unless you are shooting in very dark places, you won't notice those couple of stops (and it's in your price bracket for a new one )

[Gad-Westy]

I think I've been through nearly all of the lenses mentioned on here at one time or another. They all have merit.

I currently use a 70-200 VR2 but I think the real bargain is the 70-200 2.8 VR1. Good ones are only about £700 these days. Heck of a lens for that sort of money. Not sure I see much difference to the VR2 though that too is a nice lens.

The 70-300 AF-S is a really nice lens if you don't fancy spending quite so much or want to keep the wight down a bit. I would say that it benefits a little from being stopped down which would mean you need pretty good light to get the best of out of it where as the 70-200 options are great wide open. The newest AF-P version might be better in this regard but I've not had the pleasure.