Gene51 wrote:
The 16-300 will not fully cover the image area of the D800. The image shape will be a circle with the top and the bottom sliced off. I would NOT use the camera in crop mode, which will further diminish the image area, by cutting off the sides. It's a workable, though far from ideal, solution. Unfortunately the full frame equivalent lens does not exist. There are several 28-300mm lenses but they are not very good. Even Nikon does not recommend using their 28-300 with a D800 because of low image quality, particularly at the long end. The Tamron 150-600 G2 is a superb lens, coming very close to a 600mmF4 in image quality and holding it's own at shorter focal lengths. At 4.4 lbs, it is just 1 lb heavier than the Nikon 70-200 F2.8 VR II and completely hand-holdable. I have a 65 yr old 5'1" tall female friend who has one and never uses a tripod - she likes the freedom of not having her camera on a tripod, and not having to lug around another 5 lbs of gear. She also uses a D800, and primarily shoots birds and wildlife. We've hiked 5 miles on a beach in loose sand together and she did not complain about the weight.
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I use the 28-300 on the Z6 which is a full frame and get very nice results. No complaints from a 10:1 Zoom. i dont see any reason not to use it on the D800 body.