I'm looking for a D70 and it comes with this lens: Nikon 70-300mm f/4-5.6G AF Zoom Lens
Is this a lens made for digital cameras? Will it be really a 70-300? Thanks The Ace is right on the 1.5 crop factor for Nikons.
What do the letters mean?
G - A new subset of the D-type lenses, without an aperture ring. The aperture is set by a command dial on the camera body.
D - Lens provides distance to subject information to camera; useful for automatic flash setting
ED - Extra low dispersion glass; give superior sharpness and color rendition
IF - Internal focus - the lens does not rotate or extend as it focuses
AF-S - Auto-focus, silent wave focus engine contained inside the lens itself
DX - Lens formatted for digital sensors that should not be used on full frame cameras
VR - Vibration Reduction - a gyroscopic system to detect and correct camera shake to yield sharp images at slower shutter speeds
Here is a mini-tutorial I made myself to compare focal lengths. This is NOT a lens test or a camera test! It is merely intended to show the difference between various focal lengths. The lens was the Nikon 18-200 VR lens, which is (by definition) an 11X lens, but that 11X does not tell you what the final image will look like. I added one more frame taken with a 300 mm lens. The camera was a Nikon D200 so there is a 1.5X "crop factor," "lens factor," or "focal length multiplier." There is further explanation on the image itself. It would help if you click on "All Sizes" above the image.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/7189769@N04...
I got the 70-300 VR lens recently and find it to be a very useful lens on the SLR's. It is the "equivalent" of 105-450. See http://www.flickr.com/photos/samfeinstei... for a few shots with the 70-300 VR lens. Yes..The G lens is indeed made for digital cameras...
Here is what the 'G' means:
http://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/nikorte...
and
http://nikonimaging.com/global/products/...
If you are comparing it with a 35mm film camera, NO..It won't be a true 70-300mm because the sensor of a 35mm camera is 1.6 times the sensor of the D70. For this camera, the lens would act as a 112-480mm. Bala is sort of right.
All Nikon's focal length multipliers are 1.5x.
Canon's are 1x, 1.3x and 1.6x depending on the model. | 