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Next year i'm planning to buy a new Nikon, whats a fast Nikon high quality and that you would think thats good for aviation photography?

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Well, the Nikon D80 can shoot 3 frames per second, while the Nikon D200 can shoot 5 frames per second.

On the other hand, the speed of the auto-focus depends on the lens itself. The "AF-S" type of lens have a fast internal motor, which I would assume (although I'm not completely sure) auto-focuses faster than those for which the internal motor of the camera body is used.

To shoot fast moving subjects at long distances, such as planes, you will need a fast telephoto. Vibration reduction won't help, as it simply won't be enough time for VR to start making effect before your subject moves away (but high end telephotos will have VR, anyway). The downsides are high price and low availability. I guess you could do worst than the Nikkor AF-S VR Nikkor 300mm f/2.8G IF-ED. If you're willing to spend well over USD 4500.

But then, you will want VR for other occasions. Also, a zoom is more flexible. A high quality zoom, that has VR, but is not particularly fast at the longer end is the Nikkor AF-S DX VR 18-200mm 3.5-5.6G IF-ED.

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Nikon D90 + MB-D80 + SB-600 + AF-S VR 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 + AF-S 35mm f/1.8 + AF 85mm f/1.8 | My photos on Flickr.

The fast zoom with VR and excellent IQ is the VR 70-200mm/F2.8. It's so good in fact that you can easily use a tele-converter of up to 2x making it a VR 140-400mm/F5.6!
Only sad thing is: it costs a lot (1900EUR)

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Thomas (beware: Nikon-fanboy and moderator!) My Lens Reviews, My Pictures, My Photography Blog
D800+assorted lenses

How much is the D200, and what is the bigest lens you know?

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Hi Kriss, here's some prices:

Nikon D200 body only prices

Bear in mind there may be some new Nikons announced later next week...

Gordon

Nikon has a press conference next week. Could be used to launch the d200 sucessor which is likely. I suspect it will be a d200s or d200x. More likely D200s until the d300.

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C-5050Z | SD700IS (IXUS800 IS) | JamCam | Quantaray RZ 800 w/ 50mm prime lens (just found but broken) (aka Cosina CT-7, Various other brands) | EOS 50D

How about the Nikon D2xs, how fast and what mega pixel?

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Oh Kriss, forget about this monster:
It's 12.4Mpix for upwards 4000$. Not a very good MPix-per-$ rate

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Thomas (beware: Nikon-fanboy and moderator!) My Lens Reviews, My Pictures, My Photography Blog
D800+assorted lenses

How many frames per second?

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Google is your friend

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=nikon+d2xs+fps&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a

Zorro

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Various lenses, SB800 & Manfrotto 190 with 460MG head

Speed is 5 fps @ full resolution or 8 fps with reduced resolution (6.8MPix)

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Thomas (beware: Nikon-fanboy and moderator!) My Lens Reviews, My Pictures, My Photography Blog
D800+assorted lenses

Cool, i'll just go with the D200, and is this lens real and will it work for my D40 or my future D200?

http://cgi.ebay.com/650-2600mm-Tele-Len ... otohosting

same with these lenses.
http://cgi.ebay.com/500-1000mm-Lens-for ... dZViewItem

http://cgi.ebay.com/650-1300mm-Lens-for ... otohosting

http://cgi.ebay.com/500-1000mm-Lens-for ... dZViewItem

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All these lenses have manual focus, so this poses no prob with either the D200/80 or D40. BUT I know what it means to manually focus a 500mm/f8 lens: You will lose a lot of pics due to bad focus
Whether these lenses work correctly with automatic exposure on a Nikon, I cannot assess! So try at your own risk

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Thomas (beware: Nikon-fanboy and moderator!) My Lens Reviews, My Pictures, My Photography Blog
D800+assorted lenses

I have a manual focus 70-300mm and i managed to focus.

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For the 500-1000, will it be able to take nice shots from a far distance?
BTW will http://www.amazon.com/Phoenix-650-1300m ... 71&sr=8-17 that lens work for the D40?

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