As I am into the Otters shoot recently, my current Fuji 55200mm is kind of short in focal length (at times) and was tempted to buy the Fuji 100-400mm to add into my arsenal of lens. However, I find the Fuji 100-400mm is too expensive (S$2700) and is quite a huge lens compared to my 55-200mm. The 55-200mm is much useful for different types of photography. I would be keeping the 55-200mm as I find this lens is light and more useful.
So for otters and maybe other nature shots, I started to plan to get another system. The Nikon 80-400mm D V1 and 300mmf4 D older lenses and Canon100-400mm v1 were my choices. I have budget constraints and choose the proven old lenses available.
I came across the old but good condition Nikon 300mmf4 D at S$400 and a Nikon D90 at $240. I bought the 2 of them and start to use it for the Otters shoot. Thank God that I came across them this morning and test the old telephoto lens. As this 300mmf4 Nikon does not have any image stabilization mechanism, I have to shoot with 1/640s and above to ensure image remain sharp as possible hand-held!
The legendary 300mm f4 is sharp and although the internet comments that the lens is slow to focus compared to the newer AF-s lens. It is still useable.
As Fuji Xt1 and D90 is a 1.5X cropped sensor camera, the 300mm on D90 became a focal length of 450mm compared to the 55-200mm (equivalent 300mm). An extra 150mm does make a difference in my shots. The 10-year-old sensor of D90 is still brilliant although I can see quite a bit of noise at ISO3200, it is still usable. Today's DSLR or mirrorless sensors are so good that we take for granted as compared to the older cameras.
I find the DSLR D90 although is almost 10 years old in tech, it is still a very capable camera in 2018. There is one advantage I see using this DSLR is that there is an option to add a power grip and the power grip can use normal AA size batteries available in any convienence stores.
The legendary 300mm f4 is sharp and although the internet comments that the lens is slow to focus compared to the newer AF-s lens. It is still useable.
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| Action shot with old and slow 300mmf4 D lens on a 10year old D90. Still not too bad. |
As Fuji Xt1 and D90 is a 1.5X cropped sensor camera, the 300mm on D90 became a focal length of 450mm compared to the 55-200mm (equivalent 300mm). An extra 150mm does make a difference in my shots. The 10-year-old sensor of D90 is still brilliant although I can see quite a bit of noise at ISO3200, it is still usable. Today's DSLR or mirrorless sensors are so good that we take for granted as compared to the older cameras.
I find the DSLR D90 although is almost 10 years old in tech, it is still a very capable camera in 2018. There is one advantage I see using this DSLR is that there is an option to add a power grip and the power grip can use normal AA size batteries available in any convienence stores.
Here are the shots from the Nikon 300mf4 AF-IF-D and D90 (12M) DSLR.
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