Roy
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Even the ancient f4.5 Nikkor-P has some uses.Not if you go waaaay back in history to the first one, the f/4.5 Nikkor-P. If you like lateral chromatic aberration this is your lens.
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Even the ancient f4.5 Nikkor-P has some uses.Not if you go waaaay back in history to the first one, the f/4.5 Nikkor-P. If you like lateral chromatic aberration this is your lens.
The 600mm is big and heavy but much sharper than the 500mm with a TC...The 500mm prime lens can be added to the 300mm as being absent in all of the mirrorless systems, incl. their road maps.
I guess the Japanese lens designers really dislike uneven numbers nowadays?
I think the 500mm is a bad miss, certainly because mirrorless systems work so well with TC's. The 500mm f4 lens is a relatively affordable and reasonably sized alternative to the 600mm f4, which I will get eventually, but don't really want mainly because of its size. A 500mm f4 with 1.4tc would give me a near ideal 700mm f5.6.
Even the ancient f4.5 Nikkor-P has some uses.
With dozens of 300mm lenses Nikon has never made a bad 300mm lens...As a teenager in 1971 I used a borrowed f/4.5 Nikkor-P for a week-long workshop in the Sierra Nevada resulting in one of my first national photo credits
This and a few other favorites made with the Nikkor-P resulted in the purchase some months later of a 300mm f/4.5 Nikkor-H which I used for about ten years.