However, hiking with this lens can be hard due to its weight, especially carrying it up the mountains. This range is perfect for capturing shots of various animals, especially when paired with a DX camera.

Sometimes I’d get several in-focus photos, a couple out-of-focus, and then another string of in-focus shots. However, it's important to remember that proper care and maintenance are essential for any lens, mainly when used in adverse conditions. When used on a DX camera, it sees angles of view similar to what a 300 ~ 750mm lens sees when used on an FX or 35mm camera. Of course it won't autofocus on manual-focus 35mm cameras, and VR won't work on some of the oldest 35mm cameras either — but that's the case with all lenses on these cameras.

A Silent Wave Motor AF system produces fast, near-silent focusing performance that suits both stills shooting and movie recording which can instantly be manually overridden by simply turning the manual focus ring. VR performance immediately after the power is turned on in NORMAL mode has been improved, providing a more stable viewfinder image and enhanced blur-reduction effect on the resulting images. stops slower and includes SPORT VR mode for fast tracking during action shots such as motor-sports or planes, on top of this the Nikon Silent Wave Motor (SWM) offers a fast AF. Just like all other modern AF-S lenses, the lens will go beyond infinity and continue to rotate once the minimum and maximum limits are reached. My point is that I was able to reliably shoot some of the fastest-moving macroscopic objects on the planet, and it wasn't even particularly difficult.

The great news is that unlike Nikon's G (gelded) lenses that won't work at all on older 35mm cameras, this "E" lens works fine with all 35mm and digital Nikons made since 1959, so long as you shoot it at f/5. When birds in flight are at a very long distance against the plain and cluttered background – Lens struggles to focus in this case.Small sized Oriental white-eye bird photographed at a close distance of 8ft at a focal length of 500mm.