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    Give a lens a ne w lease of life

    Aug 18, 2020 5 minutes

    Oscar Dewhurst

    Oscar Dewhurst is a wildlife photographer and filmmaker based in Bristol. He has photographed wildlife all over the world, and his images have been awarded in prestigious competitions and widely published. Visit www.oscardewhurst.com.

    MY FAVOURITE lens that I bought second-hand was a Nikon AF-S 600mm f/4D ED-IF II back in 2013. As a wildlife photographer, you are always after more magnification, and you can’t do much better than a 600mm f/4. This model was pre-VR, and weighed nearly 6kg without the camera body, but I didn’t care; it was razor sharp and the autofocus was lightning-quick. Sure, VR would have been nice, but it cost far less than the more recent models, which were almost double the price. I used it constantly for a few years, before I moved on to a 400mm f/2.8, and

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