Nikon JAA822DA 200-500 mm Lens for Camera Black

I enjoy my wildlife photography and although I was getting some decent shots with my 80-400mm, I wanted to fill the viewfinder that bit more. I have been really impressed with the results using this lens, that extra 100mm has made a big difference. The VR is very effective and the autofocus is quick; I had read some reports saying autofocus was a bit slow, but it seems fine with my D810. The lens is a bit heavy, but I've managed to carry it around for over 5 miles without any bother (I'm in my early 60s). The biggest problem I've had is getting a holster that can carry it and the camera, I've settled on a Think Tank one at the moment, but its not ideal as the lens will not fit in with the hood on (this is a wide hood and even reversed will not fit in the bag). To give an idea of quality, the image of the pigeon was the first test shot I took. I was in my garden, the bird was on the apex of the roof; the image is cropped at 100% yet is still quite sharp (500mm f8 @ 1/400th ISO200). All in all I'm very happy with the lens and consider it money well spent.

Excellent Lens very easy to use in hand held mode, Very well balanced with my D7100. Very good condition as a used item with some very minor marks on tripod foot and hood. Just perfect .. completely satisfied with purchase. Also happy that this lens also works well with my older D3200.

This is my second Nikon 200-500 lens and I’m extremely happy with it . Quite heavy but I find it very comfortable for hand held shots on my trusty 11 year old Nikon D7100 . Pin sharp focusing and great detail . I’m ordering an FTZii adapter to fit on my next Nikon camera so I am able to still use this lens on a Nikon z6iii . I highly recommend this lens , the detail It produces especially on distance and then cropped photos is superb !

Spent the whole day with this yesterday (25/07/17), was surprised to find it attached to my camera most of the day out at south lakes safari park. You will get a lot of looks and comments walking around with this thing on, but its light enough that i didnt use a monopod at all and the 5.6 still delivered some really nice bokeh, i'll admit i set myself up for the day with the ISO set to auto but limited it to 1000. This covered my shots perfectly and got a lot of sharp images. with no motion blur, the VR helps a lot when hand held. I love this lens, its a beast and given some of the competitors prices a bargain for the we pay.

This Nikkor AF-S 200-500mm f/5.6E ED VR is impressive. Paid for next day delivery and got it the next day. Very smooth and reliable delivery from amazon.co.uk. My first impression is that the auto focus is surprisingly fast, even in low light, no hesitation and spot on. It was a bit heavy, but I took it out hand hold shooting for almost the whole day with no problems. I rest it in my arms when walking around not shooting, so my hand actually felt ok and not tired at all. I'm so pleased that I've found this totally hand holdable. A few serious reviews say f/32 is the weakest aperture, other than that the lens produces excellent image quality. From my first day try out, it appears to be like what those reviews say. But a casual shot at 200mm f/32 still shows good image quality. Its constant aperture is what I prefer compared with other third party competitors. Overall, it's an excellent lens. I'm happy to say I can rely on it with confidence. But I'll bear in mind it's not weather/dust sealing, so I'll sort out some handy protection. I'm not an expert in wildlife, but I attache two casual photos of birds to give an idea how good the lens focus is - the one hidden in the tree leaves may give an idea about how the lens focus effectively reaches the bird in low light.

Please bear in mind in this review that I only took around 100 shots before returning the lens. This lens is sharp enough at 500mm and very sharp further in. CA and other artefacts are very low, mostly unseen, and no problem (and I am a bit picky about that stuff). VR is good. AF is accurate. BUT. I cannot give 5 stars to a lens at nearly £1200 that has such slow autofocus. Birds sat in a tree are easy enough to take and the detail is excellent. Likewise shots of the moon (on a monopod and with VR on or tripod and off). But birds in flight are really hard to get sharp pictures, compared to the Nikon 70-200mm F4 lens (in my view the best Nikor zoom lens yet). I tried with and without monopod and with both variations of VR. A handful of sharp-ish shots, nothing pin-sharp though for pigeons in flight near my house. With the 70-200mm I would expect to get at least a 50% hit rate. Of course the extra weight makes panning harder too, but even when that was going well, zilch. Of course some of it may be partly down to practice, but again I never had a problem with the 70-200mm. I am ignoring a few shots where the blur was in the direction of the motion, so it has to be the autofocus. Conclusion: great for distance and small motions, tough to use for any kind of fast movement that moves through the focus plane. If you don't need the extra reach, the 70-200mm is cheaper and closer to perfection.

This lens is incredible. It might not be the fastest lens out there, but it offers some amazing sharpness. The VR built into this lens is like a missile locking onto its target, the stabilization is excellent. I'm extremely happy with it so far, I've not had any issues. It is pricy, but you get what you pay for, and this doesn't disappoint. Great lens to have in your arsenal for any photographer. The price is actually pretty decent considering the specs. I will never be able to afford lenses which are multiple thousands, but the price for this is affordable if you really want it. It's at least in the ballpark of being an achievable goal to save up for.

Like most people, the price of a top quality long lens is way out of my price range. So, when Nikoin announced the 200-500mm, it was exciting news indeed. Pro and Magazine reviews offered slightly varying opinions on the quality of the images when used wide open at 500mm, but my experience shows this to be more an issue of RAW softening, rather than severe lens limitations. A little pre-sharpening in the RAW convertor, and you'd never know this wasn't a lens that costs 5 or 6 times the price. The f5.6 aperture sounds like it should be an issue but, with the ability of modern bodies to cope increasingly well with noise, it just isn't. The 200-500mm f5.6 lens is one of the best buys I've ever made for my bag. Yes, it adds some weight, and most camera bags aren't designed to carry such a lens with the body attached which means minor compromises, but every one of them is well worth it. A lens this good for £1000 just shouldn;t be possible, and yet Nikon have produced a classic in the making. Photos attached with the lens used on a D800E body.

Even with my old D3100, this lens blows me away. I use it mostly for birding, and [other than its sheer weight and bulk] wish I had bought it earlier.

¡Increíble!, es la mejor palabra para describir este grandioso teleobjetivo. Con un precio muy ajustado para la calidad que ofrece, como siempre Nikon no defrauda, la primera sensación que transmite es su robustez y peso, con una luminosidad asombrosa. Lo mejor aparte del conocido sistema VR, que funciona a la perfección, es su motor de enfoque, no se le oye pero absolutamente nada, cuando empecé a disparar con el miraba el anillo de enfoque para ver si realmente se movía puesto que no me podía creer que viendo el enfoque a través del visor no oyera nada, y además es súper rápido tanto con mi Nikon D80 como con D7100, en ambas funciona a la perfección y cuando seleccionamos el enfoque a partir de 6 metros con el selector que trae para ello, es aún más rápido si cabe. Sin duda lo volvería a comprar. Solo una pega, y es que no tiene ningún punto de anclaje para una correa, por lo que la sujección se hace directamente con la camara, poder usar una correa adicional que vendría bien pues pesa de lo lindo. Incluso a pulso las fotos son nítidas, pero no es un objetivo para tirar a pulso. Con un simple monopie va de fábula y con un trípode es bestial. AMAZON como siempre un 10 tanto en envío, como rápidez y en este caso en concreto en precio: 200 euros de ahorro respecto a otros sitios.

One of the best bits of photographic equipment I have ever owned or used. It is simply the best.

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I've been researching telephoto zooms here for a while as I was trying to decide which one to get. I narrowed it down to the Tamron 150-600, Sigma 150-600 and this lens the Nikon 200-500. After reading/watching a bunch of reviews and comparisons of the lenses I decided to go with the Nikon, mainly because of it's sharpness throughout all focal lengths but also because of it's incredible VR (Vibration Reduction). Apart from being a great quality lens it's also affordable. For what you are getting it's a steal! Compared the it's Big Brother the Nikon 500m f4 Prime it's about 9 grand less and produces just about the same amazing quality. The lens itself is fairly new, it was released in 2015 I believe and because of that there isn't a whole of info out there like there is for other lenses. As of writing this review there is still no DXO Mark score which really bothers me, but hopefully they will get it up at some point. The real beauty of this lens is it's VR, it's Nikons latest generation of Vibration Reduction and it's incredible! It's really quite amazing how low you can drop the shutter speeds. I posted some pics with my review that hopefully help give some ideas as to what to expect with this lens. One of the pics was taken at 1/8th a second at 500mm handheld, that's just insane! Obviously you wouldn't want to be shooting at that speed if you don't have to, I just wanted to test the capabilities. At 1/8th I couldn't land a super tack sharp pic, but scaled down to any reasonable size it then looks totally sharp. In general I was able to land tack sharp images at 1/25h and lower, and 1/100 to 1/300 gave me super sharp images almost every time, even at 500mm focus. The bokeh on this thing is impeccable, blowing out the backgrounds is a snap with this lens. Colors are also deep and saturated with good contrast. Chromatic Aberration isn't a problem either, however I've noticed a very slight hint of CA on a few images, though I am talking about a very minimal amount, if you weren't pixel peeping you would never see it, and even then you might still might miss it. Focusing isn't as snappy as the 500mm f4 prime, but at 1/10th the cost the focusing works pretty darn good. Once you get used to it and know how much time you need to adjust you will get the hang of controlling the focus properly. The zoom wheel also requires a bit too much turn to go from 200-500, you won't be able to make a full transition in a single hand turn which is a bit of a bummer especially if your starting at 200 and zooming is as your tracking your subject, but again this will improve over time once you practice with it. My only other criticism thus far is the weight. It's definitely light enough to hand hold, but holding it up to track a bird or take a series of pics can get tiresome pretty quickly. However, this too will get better with practice as you build up some muscles. All in all I would say this is one of the best telephoto zooms to date, if not the best if you take the price into consideration. This is about as good as it gets at this price range, you really won't find a better lens. It's extremely versatile, you can focus close enough to take some macro shots as well (a few included in my review), you can use this lens for tight portraits, candid shots, birding, macro, and even landscapes to a lesser extent.