Pros laughed at that review. Pros wrote me from all over the world telling me how their 70-200mm is the best lens they've ever owned, how they earn their living with it day-in and day-out, in the dark, in the rain, indoors and outdoors, and how other pros call them asking what lens was used for such-and-such shot since it was so sharp. One pro wrote that he's glad he never read that review, since if he did he might never take his 70-200 out of his bag! Flare and Ghosts, Nikon 70-200 2.8 FL, La Quinta, 21 November 2016. Nikon D810, Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8 FL at 125mm at f/11 at 1/500 at Auto ISO 100. bigger. The best protective filter is the 77mm Hoya multicoated HD3 UV which uses hardened glass and repels dirt and fingerprints.

The metal 77mm filter thread is a nice change from some of the plastic garbage Nikon sold us in earlier years. Filters spin off and spin on easily with little worry for cross-threading. Desert Brush at Dawn, 21 November 2016. Nikon D810, Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8 FL at 160mm at f/16 hand-held at 1/40 at Auto ISO 100. bigger or full-resolution file to explore on your computer. The camera reads the effective lens speed (f/5.6 maximum instead of f/2.8) and actual focal length (140~400mm) with a 2x converter.EXIF and exposure data read correctly with the TC-17E, meaning the camera and EXIF read the effective f/stop, which now starts at f/4.8, and the effective focal length, which goes from 120~340mm. With rounded blades, there are no sunstars, except at the very smallest apertures where there may rarely be just a tiny one. Row of Desert Palms at Dawn, 21 November 2016. Nikon D810, Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8 FL at 200mm at f/2.8 at 1/2,000 at Auto ISO 100. bigger or full-resolution file to explore on your computer. This 70-200 FL is a huge improvement over the old 70-200/2.8 VR II from 2009 because it weighs less and focuses much closer. While the rated close-focus distances aren't that much different, older 70-200s cheated and didn't really go to 200mm at close distances. This new FL lens really is 200mm at close distances. Since this new 70-200 FL doesn't cheat on 200mm, it gets what seems like twice as close when you need it.

If you look beyond the edges, and out to the farthest few millimeters of the corners of the full FX frame where important parts of the image shouldn't be, the 70-200mm VR is among Nikon's softest lenses, but so what! Pros rarely, if ever, compose with important details in the far corners. With a tele, the corners are usually out-of focus anyway. Pros don't put distracting details, which weaken their images by leading eyes out away from the center, off in the corners. This far corner (on full-frame only) softness might irk amateurs out shooting test charts, but I've never met any pros with anything other than the highest praises for this lens. It is trivial to make photos that show this and post them on the Internet for all to see, but you won't see this in real photos composed properly. Nikon is honest about this: their MTF curves clearly show the meridional sharpness plummeting beyond 17mm from the center of the frame. ( Nikon's MTF curves.) This was the standard lens of the pros from 2003-2009, and today remains as a top professional lens. It's not cheap, even used. This 70-200FL works flawlessly on all Nikon FX cameras. It also works perfectly on recent DX cameras like the D3300 and D500. See Nikon Lens Compatibility for the complete list.Sharpness has little to do with real image quality, but if you count your pixels, skip the TC-20E with the 70-200mm VR.