Always nice when ups stops

Well as a few of you know from the nikon section, I ordered my Nikon 70-200 2.8 VR lens Wednesday from Calumet Photo. I paid for 2nd day delivery so I could have it for the weekend. I called my sales rep on thursday for a tracking #. He said it doesn't look like it has gone out yet :( then he said he will upgrade shipping to next day so I have it on friday :thumbsup:

About 9:30am friday ups guy stopped with a huge box :D :D :D :D :D

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Man this thing is HUGE, and talk about heavy !!!

Here is one of the first shots with it - I am going to have so much fun with this !!!
ISO 800 (was messing with my tubes and forgot to drop it back down)
F2.8
1/20 sec
handheld
just resized and white balanced

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Nice, I wish I had a lens like that.

Nice. I'm hoping for one or two of those vr lenses one of these days. In the mean time I'll just be excited about the new circ. polarizer I got this week.

There it is - congrats!

I can hear your dog thinking..."now what's he going to pester me with?!"

Make sure to post your results in the N/W forum :)

Congrats on your new toy. It looks like it's going to do a nice job for you. Have fun with it. UPS just dropped of a telescopic conversion lens for me yesterday. Found a mourning dove to test it on this morning. Loved the results. It sure is fun to get a new toy once in awhile, eh? Enjoy.

Tyson - thanks - took me a while to "justify" it and to save for it - wife still doesn't think its "justified"

Frog - someday you will have one - hopefully sooner than later -

Loupey - Thanks ! As you can see the enjoyment in my dogs eyes, he barely moves now when the camera comes out. Yes I will be posting more in the N/W forum with this thing.

Mike - Thanks - new toys are always fun - especially the more expensive ones - since they are far and few between. Now Loupey tells me I need the 2x converter too - don't know how to break it to the wife

well i had a longer response written out last night but then this damned safari beta crashed on me so I lost it. it's just too bad the lens isn't white! :D

why the 2x? I heard the nikon 1.7x is pretty good. the 2x seems to be only be good with sharp primes.

pretty impressive for 1/20 with that lens, the vr must work pretty well.

and nikon boxes look so much cooler than canon boxes...damn....

Congrats' Ben.This lense is my next purchase.It's been on the "next purchase list" for a while now. The lense has earned quite a reputation.Heck...it's legendary. I look forward to your first shots with it.

b.t.w. update your equipment list. :O)

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Originally Posted by livin4lax09

well i had a longer response written out last night but then this damned safari beta crashed on me so I lost it. it's just too bad the lens isn't white! :D

why the 2x? I heard the nikon 1.7x is pretty good. the 2x seems to be only be good with sharp primes.

pretty impressive for 1/20 with that lens, the vr must work pretty well.

and nikon boxes look so much cooler than canon boxes...damn....

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Brent - Not sure if I would want to of seen what you had written ..... if its as biased as "it's just too bad the lens isn't white!" then probably not :p - I do have more I want to say but will keep quiet on that subject .....

Since reading your comment about the 2x vs the 1.7x I been doing alot of reading and searching online - I am looking at the 2x for the distance - most of my shooting is outdoors and wildlife so far - I don't do much for sports - I will keep reading and see what more I can find - I have seen some shots taken with the 2x / 70-200 and for the most part they seemed very nice - I will have to see if I can test them both out and see which I prefer. Thanks for the insight on it though !!!

I tell ya hearing the VR working for the first time was like music to my ears - took me a while to stop smiling :D

Doesn't everything Nikon look cooler than anything canon :p :p :p

Rick - Thanks !!! I don't think anyone can go wrong with this lens - as you said its legendary ! I will have to update my equipment list, been meaning too with the addition of the tripod and now this, soon the tamron 17-50mm 2.8 also, now to start letting go of the other lenses. :thumbsup: