80-200 mm f2.8D AF Macro-Zoom ED
with CL-43A case, HN-28 hood, 77 mm Circular Polarizer
(over $100 in extras)
Images shot with THIS lens:
Excellent depth of field control and razor focus.
Note: these images are low-resolution scans of prints from negatives, the originals are even cleaner.
Your lens is more important than your camera! Don't skimp on your glass!
This Lens:
- Fantastic condition! Nearly zero evidence or handling or use!
- ALWAYS kept capped and in its case!
- ALWAYS protected with a UV or polarizer filter (BOTH included!)
- NO scratches/damage to glass elements
- Push-Pull Zoom and focus ring action silky smooth
Includes:
- Nikon ED AF Nikkor 80-200 mm 1:2.8D Macro-Zoom Lens
- Nikon CL-43A Hard Protective Case with carry strap
- Nikon LF-1 End cap
- Nikon HN-28 77 mm threaded lens hood (original box)
- Hoya 77 mm UV(0) Filter with case
- Hoya 77 mm Circular Polarizer Filter
- Original Nikon box and warranty papers
You will love the push-pull zoom action, low-light speed and narrow depth of field you can attain with the f2.8 aperture! Great for action, sports, and portraiture! Particularly good for fashion and modeling as the long zoom keeps your models looking "thin" and minimizes background as opposed to the "fat" look and distracting backgrounds of a wide-angle lens. Precise depth of field control eliminates distracting backgrounds or gently blurs them! (see images above)
Accepts 77 mm filters and includes both UV and Circular Polarizer. The HN-28 threaded lens hood allows easy control of your polarizer! Also accepts bayonet mounted HB-7 Hood. A two-position focus limit switch (limit/full) makes focusing faster by locking out distances less than or greater than 8 feet. This prevents "hunting" for focus at unlikely distances and greatly speeds up autofocusing! Focuses down to 5 feet! Manual/Auto focus switch. Manual/Auto aperature switch.
I have the ORIGINAL BOX and warranty registration. Even the original box for the HN-28 lens hood!
Additional:
Lens and box:
Lens and case:
Lens inside case:
Close-up:
Box:
This is the best buy in 80-200 f/2.8 zooms going. It offers fantastic performance at about the same price as some people pay for garbage like Sigma.
It focuses 80% as fast as the AF-S 80-200 f/2.8 and costs and weighs less. This lens focuses about three times faster than almost any other telephoto zoom, save for the 70-210 f/4-5.6D AF and newest 70-200 VR and 80-200 AFS lenses.
This lens is ED, f/22 minimum, push-pull zoom, 5' (1.5m) minimum focus, no tripod collar, a one-position focus limit switch, slow autofocus speed and 77mm filter size
Nikon Product number: 1985 NAS. Serial No. 429538. 1993-1997.
There are very few reasons to want to pay more for the bigger and heavier AF-S version or VR version. The optics are entirely different and they are all excellent.
SPECIFICATIONS
Name: Nikon calls this the Nikon ED AF Nikkor 80-200mm f/2.8 D
Optics: Sixteen elements in eleven groups. Three of them are of ED glass.
Diaphragm: 9-bladed diaphragm with nine conventional straight blades. They make a nice 9-sided polygon at all apertures, unlike the AF-S that simulates a circle at larger apertures.
Filters: Uses standard 77mm filters.
Close Focus: About 5.5 feet, which is pretty good. That's about a foot less close than the AF-S when compared directly, and about the same as the 180/2.8AF.
Size: 3.4" (87mm) around by 7.4" (187mm) long.
Weight: 2 pounds, 14 oz (46 ounces total or 1,300g)
Case: It comes with a very nice CL-43A padded case with carry strap.
PERFORMANCE
This is an extremely sharp lens and excellent in low light. I have shot with it for portraiture, action, and distance.
Distortion performance is also good for a zoom:
80-115 mm: fairly neutral
200 mm: some pincushion distortion
Autofocus is accurate. In real photographs the focus is always dead on at f/2.8. This is important, some other lenses' focus errors exclude from being able to get good results wide open. I like this lens because of this.
AF speed is almost as fast as the AF-S on an F100. Don't worry about this difference. It does of course make more noise than the AF-S does while focusing because the big front lens group is rotating at blindingly fast speeds.
RECOMMENDATIONS
This sort of lens has been the most popular pro lens for 35mm shooters for over a decade. Just buy one and don't worry. You don't need the AF-S unless you prefer a light wallet and a heavy camera bag. It is compatible with every Nikon camera ever made. You should be able to have a coupling prong installed by Nikon if you have a pre-1977 non-AI camera.
There is little reason to get the AF-S lens over this.
