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Gear Talk => Lens Talk => Topic started by: richardHaw on October 05, 2018, 21:07:31

Title: Tale # 67: 80-200mm 2.8 AFS
Post by: richardHaw on October 05, 2018, 21:07:31

https://imaging.nikon.com/history/story/0067/index.htm (https://imaging.nikon.com/history/story/0067/index.htm)

 :o :o :o

Title: Re: Tale # 67
Post by: Frank Fremerey on October 05, 2018, 22:38:10

This is a very nice lens. Very heavy too. I once shots sports with it on the D70. Possible but next to impossible. Not the lenses fault, the camera was not capable, but I took some great shots anyway!

Title: Re: Tale # 67
Post by: richardHaw on October 06, 2018, 03:18:43

Sorry for the short title. I woke up to relieve myself and saw Sato-san’s Facebook update so i had to share it here asap despite being sleepy.  :o :o :o

Title: Re: Tale # 67: 80-200mm 2.8 AFS
Post by: chambeshi on October 07, 2018, 14:21:03

Thank You :-)
A most interesting history, including the long overdue tribute to Susumu Sato - aka the Other Sato. This essay tells us much more valuable background, beyond the fast 80-200.

He designed several of the exotic super tele primes [300, 400, 500, 600] and he succeeded in refining the IQ of the 300 f2.8 with TCs - "Sato's promise was to ensure that when teleconverters were used with lenses utilizing new designs, the levels of performance and chromatic aberration exhibited by the teleconverter/lens combination was superior to that of other lenses of the time with the equivalent final focal length (combined lens/teleconverter focal length)."