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AF speed is only moderate. It's swell for distant wildlife and sports, but not instantaneous like the world's best 100-400mm f/4 L IS II.
When I buy good lenses like Nikon, Canon and LEICA, I know they will last me for decades, always working on my new cameras and repairable if it breaks.The 200-400mm is a heavy-duty lens for heavy-duty shooters. People love it, but it's a more specialized lens than this 200-500mm. Even if I gave you a 200-400mm for free, I doubt that you'd want to carry it around. Although modern DSLRs do quite well with slower lenses (thanks to their superior AF systems capable of handling lenses all the way up to f/8), earlier models struggled with lenses that went past f/5.6, providing unreliable and inconsistent focusing experience, particularly in low-light situations. The Nikon 200-500mm f/5.6E VR does not have such issues, because of its brighter maximum aperture of f/5.6 at all focal lengths, which is why the lens is actually suitable to use with the 1.4x teleconverter. NIKON D750 + 200-500mm f/5.6 @ 500mm, ISO 180, 1/1000, f/5.6 The all-metal Canon 100-400 focuses closer than any pro 70-200mm lens (just 2¾' or 0.84m), so it replaces all 70-200mm lenses as well. Additional handling notes from John Lawson: Full zoom from one end to the other requires almost 180 degrees of rotation on the zoom ring. That is too far to go without stopping and resetting your grip. And that is not what you want to be doing when trying to maintain correct framing on a fast approaching subject such as a bird in flight. The best technique then is to grip the front of the lens barrel and use it as a push-pull zoom. That works for the most part but it can sometimes be difficult to keep a good grip on the barrel, especially with gloves on. Points off for that oversight. NIKON D750 + 200-500mm f/5.6 @ 500mm, ISO 100, 1/1000, f/5.6
Special thanks to Tom Redd and John Lawson for sharing their beautiful images for the review. NIKON D800E @ 500mm, ISO 200, 1/500, f/8.0 Nikon 200-500mm f/5.6E ED VR OverviewFilm & Darkroom Film Clothing Instant Printers & Consumables Ink Jet Printing Canon Ink Jet Printers Ink jet paper Service Plans & More Palm, 29 October 2015. Nikon D810, Nikon 200-500mm VR at 500mm, wide-open at f/5.6 at 1/250 hand-held at Auto ISO 100. bigger or camera-original 36MP file to explore on your computer (most portable devices can't show all the pixels in the full resolution file). This field review of the Nikon 200-500 f/5.6 lens, looks at how the lens performs from the perspective of a nature and wildlife photographer. It examines how this lens performs in the wild, as well as looking at the lens controls and ergonomics. This is important, especially if the lens has to be used from dawn to dusk in the wilderness. It may not look big by itself, but notice how small is the lens mount in all these photos. Put it on a camera, and you'll see how big it is: Filter-thread: 95mm. That’s larger than most of us have filters for and may mean that you need to get new filters for the lens. But that’s par for the course as both the Sigma Contemporary and the Tamron 150-600mm zoom need 95mm filters. The Sigma 150-600 Sports needs 105mm filters which are even more expensive. Only the Nikon 80-400/4.5-5.6 uses standard 77mm filters. [0]
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