Digital Photo Pro is your trusted source for the latest news on photography, camera techniques, equipment reviews and renown photographers galleries. Google rightly took the plaudits when it made its Nik Collection photo editing software available for free last year removing the products 149. Methodology Ive been a user of Adobe Lightroom since Version 1. I have other RAW converters I used DXO Optics Pro from version 4 to 6 but ended up being too. Philadelphia 7. 6ers Roster. Nik Pro 4' title='Nik Pro 4' />Nikon 8. VR Review. Home  Donate  New  Search  Gallery  Reviews  How To  Books  Links  Workshops  About  Contact. Nikon 8. 0 4. 00mm VR 2. Ken. Rockwell. com. Nikon 8. 0 4. 00mm f4. D VR. FX, DX and 3. My biggest source of support for this free website is when you use any of these links, especially this link directly to it new at Adorama or new at Amazon, or this link directly to them used at e. Bay see How to Win at e. Bay, when you get anything, regardless of the country in which you live. It helps me keep adding to this free website when you get yours through these links but I receive nothing for my efforts if you buy elsewhere. Thanks for your support Ken. NEW Nikon 8. VR AF S0. March 2. This new AF S lens adds instant manual focus override and closer, faster focusing to the original 8. VR lens reviewed here. Adorama pays top dollar for your used gear, especially this original 8. I/717yoe6b-yL._SL1027_.jpg' alt='Nik Pro 4' title='Nik Pro 4' />VR. August 2. 00. The 8. VR works great on DX, FX and film. The newer, smaller, lighter and much less expensive 7. VR does everything as well or better, but only goes to 3. Personally, I prefer the convenience of the 7. The rest of this article is from 2. FX or the 7. 0 3. Nik Pro 4' title='Nik Pro 4' />Some good news or all Nik Collection fans DxO acquired Nik Collection from Google and will continue to develop it. Shorty after it became a free software. VR. The 8. 0 4. 00. VR is marvelous on FX, just that the 7. VR works as well for a lot less money and weight. For sharpness comparisons, see 1. Center Comparison. Corner Comparison. Cost Of Forklift License Perth'>Cost Of Forklift License Perth. Center Comparison   2. Corner Comparison. Nik-Software-Complete-Collection-Setup-Free-Download.jpg' alt='Nik Pro 4' title='Nik Pro 4' />INTRODUCTIONThis. I bought one in August 2. Its small, sharp, light. Not only this, but the VR feature actually. As I recall the Tokina 8. I have no idea how sharp it is. See also Why VR Matters. It weighs. less than the Nikkor 8. AF S. Due to that. VR. replaced the 8. AF S in my bag until it was replaced by the 1. VR in my bag in 2. I still grab my 8. Except. for the VR feature, this lens is completely compatible with all Nikon. Youll need to have a coupling. AI camera from 1. The. VR feature works with the most recent cameras, specifically D8. D2. 00, D2. H. D2. X, D1XH, D1. 00, D7. F5, F1. 00, F8. 0N8. F6. 5N6. 5. VR doesnt work on the N5. Check your cameras instruction book for details. Nikon introduces new cameras obviously my lens instruction book cant. This. lens is perfect for the wander around and see what you find photography. I do. It is NOT good for sports or low light motion photography due to. More on that later. Heres. the initial press. January, 2. 00. 0. It didnt actually become available until. Specifications. Name. Nikon calls this the Nikon. ED AF VR Nikkor 8. D. Optics        top. Internal diagram. ED Glass. 1. 7 elements in 1. ED glass. Its multicoated, which Nikon calls Nikon Integrated Coating. Diaphragm. Great 9 bladed diaphragm. It uses curved blades which provide a pretty. Filter Thread. 77mm, the professional standard. The. front plastic filter ring does not rotate, ever. Focus. It is. not an AF S lens, but one of the old style mechanically focused lenses. Its one of Nikons slowest focusing lenses. You will need to move switches around to go between AF and manual focusing. The Canon 1. 00 4. IS is AF S style, as is the 7. VR. AF S lenses let you grab the focus ring for instant manual focus override. Close Focus. 7. 5 feet 2. The Canon 1. 00 4. IS focuses closer. The 7. 0 3. 00 VR focuses closer still 4. VR clostest, at 1. Tripod Collar. The. I took mine off the moment I got it I do the nasty and use the cameras tripod socket. The 8. 0 4. 00. VRs collar is a pain, so its left at home. Hood. HB 2. 4 plastic bayonet hood, included with the lens and not needed. Size. 3. 6 9. 1mm around and 6. Weight. 42. 7 oz. Nikon Product Number 1. Nikons. data is here. PERFORMANCEAF. Speed. AF speed. is slow. If you want fast AF, get the 1. VR or 7. 0 3. 00 VR. VR is for fixing hand shake blur during longer exposures, not for stopping action. This lens excels for stills, but for sports you may want the 7. VR. With a hot camera like the D2. HX, D1HX or F5 its OK with. F1. 00, D1. 00 or slower it can be annoying. The. focus shifts as you zoom, so you always need to be sure to refocus. This is not what you want for tracking action. Even. on a pokey camera like my D7. I can track some action, like cars moving. MPH. It is. the slowest focusing AF lens ever made by Nikon as far as I know. It only. focuses to 1. AF screw. This is more than. AF 7. 0 3. 00 f4 5. D. and more than six times as slow as the recently discontinued AF. D. And you think youre going to shoot sports with thisNah, this lens is for stabilizing camera shake, NOT subject motion The. VR is even slower than the original AF 7. This. lens focuses the old fashioned way with a motor in the camera and a mechanical. This is not why its slow. Its slow because the gearing is designed to be slow. Depending. on the gearing of this conventional AF linkage one either gets blazingly. AF like the 8. 51. D. AF lenses, or a pig like this VR lens. This. lens is optimized for handheld photos of still subjects, NOT sports I. D1. H camera, but would caution you to check. AF is fast enough to track action for you depending on. D1 series. or F5. Nikon. salesmen brush this off as well, its not AF S, but as you. In. this case this lens is just geared very slowly. The. slow AF is OK because the VR lens is not for shooting sports or action. Dont be misled by the illustrations in the sales literature. The point of the VR feature is to be able to shoot still subjects with. It is not to be used for shooting. For sports you. ought to be using a faster lens allowing faster shutter speeds, or if. There. is a focus range limiter switch. There. is an updated AutoManual focus mode switch which can be moved with one. This is an improvement. Nikkor AF lenses, but still primitive compared to Canon and. Nikon AF S lenses. Bokeh. Bokeh. is neutral at 4. It looks. not so great at 2. I have. not looked too closely at this, so best to try for yourself. See also my Bokeh Comparisons page for examples, where it looks great at 1. Distortion. Plug these figures into Photoshop CS2s. These arent facts or specifications, they are the results of my research that requires hours of photography and calculations on the resulting data. Ken. Rockwell. com. Construction. Quality. Its. got a lot of plastic and feels cheaper then the metal Canon 1. IS. which is priced the same. On the. other hand, after living with it a bit I realize that this saves weight. Godsend. Its light and has a lot of plastic on the outside. This is unlike the expensive Mamiya. The. Nikon 8. 0 4. VRs plastic is top rate. The filter threads are metal, covered in rubber, the best of all worlds. Of course. the mount is metal. Im unsure about the important internal cams. Vibration. Reduction and Image Stabilization. The. VR seems to work very, very well. I got useable but still slightly blurred. Honestly. VR is just a gamble like anything else. Some images are sharp and some. It cant save every image since camera shake is a random function. Oddly. VR works great from 8. Yes, VR is always better than no. Empire Earth 3 Patch Traduction Fr. VR handheld, but youll get some duds at every speed. Heres what seem. Innocent people would presume that VR effectiveness would. The minimum speeds have to do with the exact algorithms. This is what I found you will probably see. It makes. slow pans easy. I get a lot of good results easily, although this is not. I do often. Believe. Nikon when they say dont use VR on a tripod. It screws up the image by. Likewise, if you brace the camera against something. VR off. VR has. a bizarre and understandable side effect.