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

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Real weaknesses of the lens in use are that it is not as rugged as it seems on the outside. The MF/AF toggle ring soon develops problems and the focus limiter switch which is glued on can fall off. The other challenge is nailing focus if you're using wider apertures. Sometimes I get better results without focus peaking enabled. The Nikkor AF-S 80-200mm f/2.8 IF-ED, introduced late in 1998, was one of the first AF-S lenses. In fact it was the first zoom lens that featured the then new sonic wave driven autofocus. It was discontinued and replaced by the Nikon AF-S 70-200mm VR less than 5 years after its announcement.

This 80-200mm has some spherochromatism. If you really go looking for it, highlights behind your subject may have slight green fringes, and those in front of your subject may have slight magenta fringes. In this review we'll have a look at how the lens performs on our current FX test camera, the Nikon D3x.The multi-position focus limiter ring is replaced with a simpler and easier to use Limit/Full slide switch. Many of these switches fell off, leaving a hole in the lens which otherwise works swell throughout the entire focus range. Well I have sold my 70-300 vr because I got the hump with it (was great with the d2x but now I don't like it with the d3x) but I need a telezoom. And since I love selective focus , creamy bokeh and generally speaking I'm more of a tele person I thought a bright zoom is the right thing for me. 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.

a great lens is in my photo bag again. In myopinion, itoffers everything that is important to good photography, but it has its weak spots as well. Quirk: I'm not sure if this is present in all but in my copy at least, the images turns drastically soft at 200mm at f2.8. Not a major issue though. But needed to keep in mind while shooting. Macro: Nikon plays a joke here, as there is no special macro range, just an orange band on the focus scale between 6 feet and 5 feet. I'll explain more later under Macro.Although the VR is said to give 4 stops advantage over a similar lens, this advantage becomes minimal when you consider that the VR needs to be stopped down to f8 or f11 before it appears to deliver its best definition. On the other hand my 80-200 is very sharp from f4 so I reasoned that this took care of two or three stops advantage straight away.

the AF-S. I wonder if this was one of their first AF-S lenses, and there may were been issues with the motor... Below is a simplified summary of the formal findings. The chart shows line widths per picture height (LW/PH) which can be taken as a measure for sharpness.

Nikon 80-200mm f/2.8D ED AF Nikkor User Reviews

I don't know if they are the same, but I don't think the newer one will be any worse. ALL of the 80-200's were/are good. All of them were designed as workhorse lenses for pros, and they are more similar than dissimilar in terms of optical quality. The 70-200VR is considered the King in this focal range, but if you have no need for VR or AF-S, the 80-200 will do everything you want at nearly half the price.

I have spent two evenings and half a sleepless night reading through lots of posts regarding the 80-200. Power (torque) delivered by the body's internal focus drive motor. Lesser bodies have smaller, less powerful motors than the 'big dogs'. Naturally, this affects only non-AF-S lenses.Again due in part to the sub-frame sensor of the D200, the 80-200mm f/2.8 showed relatively little geometric distortion, ranging from a miniscule amount of barrel distortion at 80mm to a noticeable 0.3% pincushion at 200mm. It's important to note though, that the average distortion remains quite low, even at 200mm. This indicates that the distortion is limited to the outer edges and corners of the frame, not extending very far into the image area itself. Nikon has been making so many different versions of this lens for so many decades that I wrote an entire 80-200mm f/2.8 History to chronicle it all. Read this if you're thinking of buying one of these to help you sort it all out. The Nikon 80-200's collar never comes off, which is good, because it's so well designed that you'll never want to remove it. Flip it out of the way for hand-held shooting, and it's still there when you need it. Katie swinging, 28 July 2016. 2016 Nikon D5 at 1/1,250 at 12 FPS at Auto ISO 100, 1999 Nikon 80-200mm AF-S at 200mm at f/2.8. bigger or full-resolution file to explore on your computer (mobile devices rarely display high resolution files properly).