Nikkor 800mm f5.6 VR lens...???

[Morkel Erasmus]

Still in the RUMOUR phase, but should be enough to make some folks start salivating and opening extra credit card accounts...

http://nikonrumors.com/2012/07/05/ni...-vr-lens.aspx/

[Richard Mc Donald]

Going to be interesting the future debates and in depth discussions when comparing this new Nikon lens with the Canon 800L f/5.6 once it's released.

Richard

[James Shadle]

I would love to have one!!

[Larry Handal]

I would love to have one!!

Artie says a 70-200mmF2.8 with two stacked 2x teleconverters is just as good and more versatile .
Roger says the it isnt because even though its the same number of pixels on the subject they are stacked on top of each other rendering the ratio of effective to actual pixels the inverse of the square root of 7.
Arash and Doug of course have diametrically opposing agreements to each other and everyone else.
Artie will want this translated to plain English.
Daniel will want to chime in that his 100-400 only needs a single 2X to achieve the same thing if it would only mount on the lens.
Did I forget anyone?
Aww come on James! Say something!

Just Kidding! Please don't ban me! It was just a joke! REALLY!!!!!

I could not resist!

[James Shadle]

And Larry will dispense some pills, photograph eagles in his backyard and then start trouble on the forums.
It was nice having you here Larry.

I think you nut-shelled the discussion. Funny stuff.

[Larry Handal]

James ,
a lot of the meds I dispense are the best "image stablizers" out there! LOL Xanax IS VR

[William Giokas]

Nikon rumors said the the Nikor 800mm might have been F4 but it will be F5.6 . Bill

[Choong John]

Check again at Nikon Rumors and http://www.nikon.co.jp/news/2012/0712_nikkor_01.htm

[Morkel Erasmus]

Nikon South Africa has just made this announcement...

http://www.facebook.com/notes/nikon-...71422666202957

[Harshad Barve]

Nikon India also announced

[Daniel Cadieux]

That would prove one popular lens on the dark side's arsenal!

Larry...too funny

[Roger Clark]

Roger says the it isnt because even though its the same number of pixels on the subject they are stacked on top of each other rendering the ratio of effective to actual pixels the inverse of the square root of 7.

Hi Larry,
I just saw this. Very good, and quite funny. But it's never square root 7, it's either square root 2 or multiply by pi!

Roger

[Markus Jais]

Great to see Nikon release such a lens. I shoot Canon but it always good when competition is available.
Will be a killer lens, for sure!

Markus

[Humberto Ramos]

Interesting, they don't talk about VR even in the lens name "AF S NIKKOR 800mm f-5.6G" but in the picture its shows a VR switch, the VR on and off system its different from 500mm f/4 and 600mm f/4.