The Ai and Ai-S are also very small. Personally I got very nice images from the even older 200mm f4 Nikkor-Q.C. The only thing I really disliked about that lens was the minimum focus distance of 2 meters. The 80-200 f4 took almost the same amount of space, marginally more weight (about 200 grams more) but had a minimum focus distance of 1,2 meters.