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Nikon 70-200 f4 AFS VR - Page 2

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Posted: Tue Oct 30th, 2012 10:19

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Iain

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Doug wrote:

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the Canon 70-200 f4 comes with NO tripod collar

It's about time Nikon caught up to Canon in this area (the big C have/had a couple of lenses that produce fantastic images with great performance and less cost and weight - this was one of them, the 17-40 f4 is another)

I imagine street price will be on par with the Canon equivalent

It would seem you are right Doug, that's changed as when I got mine a few years ago it came with tripod collar.

Maybe a case of cutting corners to save money, or make more profit .

Posted: Tue Oct 30th, 2012 15:36

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Doug

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Iain wrote:
It would seem you are right Doug, that's changed as when I got mine a few years ago it came with tripod collar.

Maybe a case of cutting corners to save money, or make more profit .

I don't remember the current version of the Canon 70-200 f4 ever including the collar

I'm not sure the tripod collar being omitted is a bad thing - in my experience, the vast majority of owners of the f2.8 Canon or Nikon just swivel the foot out of the way most of the time.
With the f4 being much more suited to hand held use (due to the lighter weight) I imagine a large number of owners never needing it, yet never removing it)

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