Tele lens for Goodwood FoS

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I bought a D40 (with 18-55mm) a few weeks ago and am very happy with it. For my birthday last week my wife bought me tickets for the Goodwood Festival of Speed. So got to thinking about a longer lens for this. In the short time I've had to consider I've narrowed the choice to Sigma 70-300 APO (in built motor) and a Nikon 70-300VR. Will these be too long. I don't know the layout of Goodwood so don't know distances involved.

I'm also haven't made my mind up whether to spend the extra on the Nikon. I want to shoot motorsport at my local track and also some wildlife. Will I get the benefit of the VR feature if I'm shooting speeds over 1/125th. I shall be in London on Saturday and could pick up a Sigma from Microglobe at a good price, but keep getting restless nights about the Nikon (which I tried out yesterday..no one here seems to have the motorised Sigma).

Or else take my time deciding and use my 28-105 (50-150ish on the D40) zoom which came with my F80 and focus manually.
 
i would go with nikon vr. i had the same problem this year but i held of saved up a bit more and bought the 80,400 ed vr well wurth the wait.
 
You won't use the VR if you're panning, you switch that off because it gets confused with your camera movement and automatically attempts to stop blurring in the picture. In fact it makes the picture look even worse ;)

I'd go for the Sigma for now and then in the future consider upgrading to some faster glass.
 
I used the Sigma 70-300 APO last year and it did pretty well although compared to my 18-200 it's disappointing. Go with the Nikon lens, MUCH faster and sharper, to be honest.
 
According to 5 day forecast Sunday is going to be SUNNY!! Friday and Saturday look wet though. And I'm going Sunday!!! Ha ha
 
MikeeB said:
You won't use the VR if you're panning, you switch that off because it gets confused with your camera movement and automatically attempts to stop blurring in the picture. In fact it makes the picture look even worse ;)
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The 70-300 has VRII. In normal mode it will detect panning and ignore it while stabilizing in the other plane. edit: ah someone already posted this :)

I'd definitely go for the nikon if those are the options.
 
I was looking through my pics from last year, to see what to take with me tomorrow. I rarely used anything much over 100mm, though this was mostly the paddock and the rally stages. You probably don't need much more length for the hill climb unless you're trying to shoot head on from a distance.
Last year I used the 70-300 VR and it did a pretty good job all day. You will need something wider for the paddock though, your kit lens should be fine.

I've decided to take the 18-50 and 70-200 VR tomorrow. Plus something waterproof!
 
So much for a wet FoS!!! I got sunburnt!

I used 17-40 for the rally stage and 75-300 for the hill...
 
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