Nikon 80-200mm f/2.8 AF (1987 version) : Specifications and Opinions

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Overlord

sent on 25 Marzo 2019

Pros: Good contrast, useful focal range, constant aperture f2.8, good sharpness. Bulilt like a tank.

Cons: Slow and noisy AF, bokeh could be little bit better. Quite heavy.

Opinion: In general, very good lens indeed. Especially, right now it can be bought for a solid money. Good contrast, useful focal range, constant aperture f2.8 is very welcome, good sharpness. Built like a tank. I bought this lens more than 20 years old, but in excellent condition. Slow and noisy AF, bokeh could be little bit better. Lens is also quite heavy.

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Nolan

sent on 16 Marzo 2023

Pros: blurred, materials, fire ring, price.

Cons: Slow and ruomoroso AF

Opinion: Purchased a year ago for personal monkey and because 'too curious to see it at work on a Nikon D3, obviously used but in conditions really equal to new. It is not a "sharp" lens but it still has a very good sharpness and a very soft and very pleasant blur. The "pump" system of this lens is really very practical to use, the fire ring (which is the same as the zoom) is among the best that I personally have ever tried, impeccable materials and construction, from true pro. It is one of those lenses that personally make me appreciate even more doing photography, both for a sense of robustness and for first-level optical quality, in use in my way of seeing it makes everything more interesting and puts you in direct contact with photography the most real and male, from elbow grease in short. I use it practically only in manual and freehand, so the fact that there is no bracket of the knight or that it does not have a lightning AF does not weigh me down (For that I have more). It should be judged in my opinion according to your needs, and it is to be taken into account that a lens of other times, for me that first of all I am a photography enthusiast is a fabulous lens that I will certainly never sell, for the laser beams of star trek instead there is so much other type (70-200 f2.8 vrii) definitely two different worlds at completely different prices.

Delio.vernacchia

sent on 20 Febbraio 2023

Pros: Quality, Colors, sharpness

Cons: Very slow and noisy Af

Opinion: Interesting lens, very sharp and bright!! But it suffers from time, in silent places to hear the noise of the focus of this 80-200 I find it a bit embarrassing, then in 2023 going to manual focus seems senseless to me given the technology we have. In my opinion the D series remains However the best quality price ever, if it were not for the old focusing system it would have been perfect! But of course we are talking about old but beautiful optics. Today, especially in the SLR world, there is a vast fleet of modern lenses not to be underestimated but I always prefer the G and D series remain the most engraved.

Jacopo Pasqualotto

sent on 09 Settembre 2022

Pros: Robust, it has a real internal helical for manual maf, quiet colors, good sharpness, switching from af to manual with a single move.

Cons: AF lentino, but if you do not chase hares is fine, front & back focus not solvable if not accepting a compromise at halfway, difficult to hold to carry it around without shoulder strap

Opinion: Quoto Gsabbio before me. I have both grandfather 80-200 f 4.5 and this one. I looked for the very first version because 1) aesthetically I like it very much 2) it has the intuitive multi-position ring limiter 3) I dreamed of it for a lifetime 4) inside, unlike the successors who use nylon notches on the bores in the barrel, it has a real helical for the maf, so the feeling it returns is like focusing with the grandfather f 4.5: a pleasure ! You can also leave the selector of the reflex on af, because passing in manual internally is decoupled the transmission shaft from the screw mount. Progressive and soft pump, it is done very well and apart from a possible regreasing of the helical after 30 years (if necessary), it does not require maintenance; the diaphragm selector is comfortable and well accessible. Quiet colors and good sharpness, it suffers from front and back focus, which can be canceled only in a certain focal length: moving the zoom obviously the defect will return to reveal itself in a progressive but regular and predictable way as you move away from the correct point. Eye that is not parafocal. My specimen is a '92 fineserie, found really used as new at 270 € 2 years warranty, with box and original case. Between the grandfather f 4.5 and this I prefer the ancestor as a general yield, but if there is little light there is no history: it goes 2.8 ! To have for every self-respecting Nikonist.

Gsabbio

sent on 06 Dicembre 2020

Pros: contrast, sharpness, blurry, robustness

Cons: autofocus a bit slow compared to current performance

Opinion: That it was a good lens, for me it was a fact already when I used it over 20 years ago on manual machines. The slowness of the focus - according to the current criteria - was not a problem, I was hand-sealing with an F3 and without stabilization and AF the rate of perfect images was very high. I decided to write this review because just these days I digitized some of the 1997 dias, on which I had to intervene to eliminate the damage caused by time. This forced me to work on the image at very high magnifications 300/400% and I was able to re-discover its extraordinary yield. Although on an Ektachrome 100 film, which did not shine for the fineness of the grain, the richness of the smallest details is extraordinary, widely satisfying and even superior to the 45 mpix sensor of the D850 with which I reproduced the image (for duplication I employed a specialist Zuiko 80mm f4 macro 1:1). If you then intervene with modern noise reduction software, the detail obtainable becomes extraordinary even for a film. Therefore: my voice is added to the chorus of those who sing the praises of this lens. Given the price of used goods, it is a widely recommended choice, but I recommend not to buy it in a closed box, because I recently ran tests on a model that was not in place. On the other hand, it has been around for at least 30 years and although the manufacture is very robust, some ailves can be there. In my gallery I will publish the duplicate PWC97 image from slide. The 9.5 vote was fully deserved then as it is today.

Real

sent on 09 Dicembre 2019

Pros: Sharpness, blurry

Cons: Weight, uncertain autofocus and lack of tripod attack

Opinion: I read the various opinions and found that more than photographers you are a computer. Eye point out the difference between the 3 models of the 80-200 that also have the same pattern of lenses Companies that make comparisons with sophisticated equipment can not be so precise. I think you all agree that in all 3 versions anyway is a great goal, too bad that in the first one misses the attack for the treppiede.co I still prefer it to pump without moving the hand I can zoom and focus. I'm the usual polemic. Good light to all :)

Luca Ferrarini

sent on 28 Marzo 2019

Pros: Optical Quality and Sharpness

Cons: Autofocus sometimes slow and noisy

Opinion: I Have been holding this lens for more than a year now and I have to say that every time I am surprised by optical quality and sharpness. Squeezed properly in some situations it has proved even so slow, as it seems sometimes, perhaps because of the noise it makes when it goes back and forth looking for the focus. In any case also saw the price to which you find recommend!

Efferrelle56

sent on 25 Gennaio 2018

Pros: absolute clarity and guaranteed results

Cons: it makes you fall in love

Opinion: I had found it online for 390 euros two years ago. It is an ancient lens, even if slow, but professional and reliable. Although it was born in other times it is built with superb glass. The weight is the main peculiarity that determines a pleasant and reassuring feeling of metal between the hands, which can also be used to avoid blur. Evaluation, framing, relaxation, exhalation and away! Also grafted onto a D 50 and with only 6 megapixels, and especially in the portrait, can prove to be able to make real masterpieces. With the D3, then, once again provoking the provocative young of the past.

Marco Cristiano

sent on 02 Luglio 2017

Pros: Spectacular

Cons: Missing tripod ring

Opinion: The AF-D lacking in the appeal ;-) Bought on the market of Juza in awesome conditions by my friend Adriano of Pesaro.Octically, I think, the incomparable second series of the mythical "pump" model, a legendary optical scheme coming from Very famous 80-200 f / 4.5 of the 70's (in my possession), impeccable construction like all AF-D, colors and bokeh I think unmatched ... but the tastes are tastes. Monstrous quality-money ;-)

Pier Franco

sent on 18 Maggio 2014

Pros: quality / price ratio, excellent blurred; tough; excellent mechanical; excellent lens; weight

Cons: Autofocus is not comparable to the younger generation; not stabilized;

Opinion: I once used the model ED monoghiera analog, F3 and F4; now I have discovered the optics of D300 and D90, finding AND D model, which is better than the first model citato.rnLe differences with the True union are not worth the difference price on second quest'ultimo.rnConcludo of counseling, for those on a budget figures affordable and have a 80-200.f.2,8, buying this ottica.rnI new 70-200 VR are other things, but this will give you great monoghiera soddisfazioni.Per use on stand on a robust machine as the D300 is not as big problems, otherwise it makes up for with a bracket, available on the market but it is not very difficult to use the DIY! My model, which is one of the last built, is fine with a 1.4 teleconverter Sigma, keeping all the automatic, have a 420mm on DX f.4 not male.Ho purchased a d700, proven optical, also excellent in FF.