Hi all. I've been shooting with the D70 and the kit 18-70 ED lens for a year or so now. Love everything about the camera.
Recently got the Nikkor 70-300 ED lens. I find that some times while shooting at near full zoom there is a strange fuzziness on the subjects. It's difficult to describe but all I can relate it to is if I was shaking while taking the shot. It's like a digital blur.
Anyone know why or is anyone else experiencing this?
So you are seeing camera shake at 300mm? What's your shutter speed? The general rule of thumb is to avoid camera shake blurring, you need a shutter speed of 1/focal length, so with a Nikon 1.5x crop factor, you should be at about 1/500 or faster. Being that it's f5.6 wide open, I'll bet it's hard to get that fast of a shutter (this is why many of us cough up the big bucks for faster lenses). A good tripod would help a lot.
Don't worry about the double posts. It happens. Did you set the shutter speed on manual?
That speed is still too slow for that lens. You are also experiencing the limitations of that lens. At 5.6 that lens will not be very sharp as well. From my experience the lens is at its sharpest when from f/8 to f/11. Other focal lengths are very soft.
Experiment Aaron, that lens has very nice reach, but be aware of the limits. You can get plenty of good photos with that lens, look for nice even and bright lighting. You could also experiment the way it captures at high ISO within the apertures I mentioned.
