{"id":145,"date":"2004-04-23T22:30:36","date_gmt":"2004-04-23T21:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.devco.net\/?p=145"},"modified":"2009-10-09T17:25:41","modified_gmt":"2009-10-09T16:25:41","slug":"nikkor_70-300_g_lens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/archives\/2004\/04\/23\/nikkor_70-300_g_lens.php","title":{"rendered":"Nikkor 70-300 G Lens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I purchased a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nikon-image.com\/eng\/news_release\/2000\/nikkor70-300.html\">Nikkor 70-300mm G<\/a> lens for my D70 this week.  I have never had a zoom lens before and was not sure if I would use it much so I opted for the cheapest on the market &#8211; &pound;115 &#8211; once I know I like it I will get the real thing.<br \/>\nI was not expecting much from the lens since the usual know-it-all&#8217;s on the forums were having nothing but bad to say about its clarity around the 300mm mark, well I am glad to say I am absolutely very happy with the lens.<br \/>\nIt does fantastic long distance shots which in combination with my 18-70mm gives me an amasing 16x magnification, it also does great with the kinds of shots where the background needs to be distorted.<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/gallery.devco.net\/flowers\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gallery.devco.net\/albums\/flowers\/DSC_1594.thumb.jpg\" border=0><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nClick on the image for some more flower shots which demonstrate the depth of field you get out of a long lens nicely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I purchased a Nikkor 70-300mm G lens for my D70 this week. I have never had a zoom lens before and was not sure if I would use it much so I opted for the cheapest on the market &#8211; &pound;115 &#8211; once I know I like it I will get the real thing. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[122],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":835,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions\/835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}