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Nikon lens updates

70-200mm f2.8

Nikon just announced an update for 2 lenses which I own : the 70-200mm f2.8 and 18-200mm. In both cases, the VR was upgraded to VRII, supposedly giving a 2 stop increase in stability over the older version. Not sure whether the optics are better though.

There isn’t enough going for these 2 updates for me to upgrade to either. Their predecessors were too good, I suppose.

Also introduced were the D300s and D3000.

I wish Nikon had more breakthroughs. They’re getting kinda stale.

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2 Responses to “Nikon lens updates”

  1. direcow Says:
    July 31st, 2009 at 11:07 am

    They’re just waiting for canon to play catchup I guess.

  2. Dale Says:
    July 31st, 2009 at 10:46 pm

    Actually, I do think that Canon has got its own stable of good lenses in the L range. Just different markets, I suppose. I always thought of Nikon as the “working man’s” lens. A bit more hardy and reliable. Canon comes across as having great glass, but being not quite as tough. But yeah, they have their own markets.

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