Nikon Nikkor AF 70-300 mm f/4-5.6D ED review - Vignetting

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Nikon Nikkor AF 70-300 mm f/4-5.6D ED

25 October 2007

Arkadiusz Olech

8. Vignetting

The analog photography era Nikkor 70-300 mm deals well with vignetting using the DX detector. At the 70 mm focal length and maximum aperture the light fall off in the corners of the frame reaches only 12% (-0.36 value of the frame). When stopping down the lens the problems disappears almost entirely – the light fall off in the corners is only 4%.

Nikon Nikkor AF 70-300 mm f/4-5.6D ED - Vignetting

We observe the same situation at 135 mm focal length. The vignetting at the maximum aperture reaches 13% and at f/5.6 it is only 5%.

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The vignetting increases a little bit at 200 mm focal length, and at f/4.8 it is 16%, while at f/5.6 it reaches 8%. This is still at a very low level. At the 300 mm focal length we observed the vignetting increase further and at the maximum focal length at f/5.6 it is 18%, but after stopping down the lens to f/8 it drops to 4%.