Nikon 80-200Mm F2.8Ed Af Zoom Nikkor D

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The biggest reason to consider paying twice as much for the newest 70-200/2.8 VR II is if you need fast access to manual focusing. With this 80-200mm lens, you must press a release button and rotate the M - A ring between auto and manual focus; you cannot simply grab the manual focus ring as you can with all the newer AF-S f/2.8 zooms. This lens is completely mechanical. There is no delicate AF-S motor to die (a common problem over the years in Nikon lenses), and there is also no VR mechanism to break after a couple of decades of use. The first challenge was which adapter to use and how to mount it on a tripod. I ended up selecting the Metabones adapter which has a mounting foot. This alleviates some of the stresses that would otherwise be on the camera body's mount. I think this lens is still being produced by Nikon and is made only in Japan. Talk about legendary.

Thanks to its silent-wave (ultrasonic) AF motor the lens provides very fast and near-silent AF operations as well as manual focus override at any time. In conclusin, if you use tripod, hood, ML, good films, good labs, you will geat great results with the Tokina. If you need to hand hold in low light, then They have the some issue as pretty much all the AF-D lenses in a high megapixel digital world. A bit softer wide open, with lower contrast, as compared to newer G and E lens designs. If you plan to shoot wide open most of the time, you'll be happier with the 70-200's. Just shoot at F3.5 at 200mm and be happy. It is still perfectly practical today for use on almost all film and digital cameras as outlined above. EXIF and exposure data read correctly with the TC-20E, meaning the camera and EXIF read in the effective f/stop, which now starts at f/5.6, and the effective focal length, which goes from 160-400mm.But you may have to buy or fabricate (as I did), an extension foot depending on which camera body you're using. See image. Chromatic Aberration: Purple fringing is evident with this dated lens which needs some work around when faced with high contrast situations or, if unavoidable, have to be removed in post.

Given this lens' long-standing reputation for performance, we were a bit surprised that it wasn't a bit sharper wide open across its focal length range. Wide open, it was quite sharp from 80-135mm, but softened markedly at 200mm. Stopping down to f/4 improved sharpness across the board, but the blur profile at 200mm was still somewhat lopsided. (This was a little reminiscent of what we saw in our initial sample of the Nikkor 12-24mm ultra-wide zoom, apparently an issue with earlier production of that lens. - We'll ask Nikon for another sample of the 80-200mm f/2.8, so we can see if the softness at 200mm is universal or an issue with the particular (brand new) sample we tested here.) Diffraction limiting set in on our D200 test body at about f/16, but wasn't too bad even at the f/22 minimum aperture. The zoom mechanism is entirely internal: nothing moves or pumps in and out as you zoom. Therefore, no air, dust or gasses get pumped in and out of the lens (or your camera) as you zoom. On point. It's fairly small and, as i know now, actually lighter than the modern lenses of it's kind.EXIF and exposure data read correctly with the TC-14E, meaning the camera and EXIF read in the effective f/stop, which now starts at f/4, and the effective focal length, which goes from 112~280mm.