A tough, all-metal housing and full weather sealing mean the durability of the Olympus 300mm F4 PRO easily compares to the best lenses by Canon and Nikon. Six months after first renting the Olympus, I sold all of my Canon gear and purchased a Lumix G9 body, a variety of Lumix/Leica lenses and the Olympus 300mm f4 PRO lens.
As stated the Nikon 400mm f/2.8 works extremely well with all three teleconverters. The 600 and 500mm f/4 work extremely well with the 1.4, works well with the TC 1.7 In good lighting, and a recent DSLR works well with the 2.0. All work extremely well in manual focus, with high contrast and sharpness. Just as with the 70-200mm Canon lens that I mentioned above, this Nikon F4 constant aperture 70-200mm is a great lens for outdoor (in daylight) sports photography. The biggest advantage that it has over a lens like a 70-200 f/2.8 is the weight and price, the F4 70-200mm’s are significantly cheaper and lighter than their f/2.8 counterparts. All three Nikon 300mm primes outresolve any existing sensor very comfortably right from f4. Absolutely no one could tell at f6.7 whether you took a given shot with the 4002.8 or any 300 prime plus t.c., they're that good. Color is slightly improved with the PF over the D owing to nano coating. #1 Hello everyone! I was wondering what thoughts you have on the 300mm f/4 PF in comparison to the 300mm f/2.8 VRII. Obviously the cost is much lower for the f/4 version, but the thing that interests me the most is overall sharpness given everything else equal. Does the PF version stack up to the f/2.8? The 300 f/4 would be a great choice, as long as you're working in good light. Although the OP has ruled out TC's, the 300 f/4 works great with the 1.4 TC. Compared to the prices of the other two lenses, it's a bargain. And at 1.4 Kg, it's less than half the weight of the big guns: 200-400 is 3.3 Kg, 300 f/2.8 is 2.9 Kg.Nikon 300mm f/2.8 + TC-17E II vs Nikon 200-400mm f/4.0 + TC-14E II. Now here is an interesting comparison – if we take the Nikon 300mm f/2.8 and add the TC-17E II, we end up at 510mm. If we take the 200-400mm and add the TC-14E II, we get to 560mm. This time, I tried to match the field of view, because 50mm was too big of a difference.uzfZ.