same picture but without noise reduction.

Accidentally applied to much to the picture before and lost lots of details.



After I read just another review I'm very certain that I will order the Tamron instead of the Nikon. it's 450$ instead of 1200$ online an supposed to be optically equal.

And last but not least, this price difference is a nice vacation.

Today we went to sacramento to find a halloween costum for me, but gave up pretty fast. I just hate to shop in totally crowed areas with people all around me.

I also got the chance to play with a nikon 17-55mm F/2.7 AFS at the ritz camera store in sacramento. And boy this lens is nice. It's not as large as I though and the pictures quality looks just great.

is it 1200$ worth? I doubt it, but it is nice.

To the left a sparrow shot with the nikon 70-300mm VR at 300mm and ISO 1250. Picture is basicall uncropped.