Nikon 80-200 mm AF-S no longer produced?

Is this true?

 

It's still in the catalog. Where did you hear this?

FWIW, the 80-200 AF-S is a fabulous lens. I'd hate to see it go. It's
one of the very nice trio of AF-S zooms: 80-200, 28-70, and 17-35 (all
superb lenses).

 

probably as 35mm film is dying

h

 

That's the silliest thing I've heard yet today--the lens works with digital
cameras, too!

 

The following site shows it as discontinued:
http://www.nikon-image.com/eng/Lineup/discon.htm

Trying to get straight marketing information out of Nikon can be
difficult. Neither that site nor Nikon USA shows the 70-180mm
as discontinued, yet it has all but disappeared from the channel.

 

yes, it might work but does not produce the required optical image you need
the G range for that

H

 

Matt was wrong- *that* was the silliest thing heard yet!

 

Curious that the 80-200mm AF-D which has been discontinued is absent
from the list. Could it be that the site has its wires crossed on that
issue? IMHO, if you can get a line on the "D" version for do it. Its a
Nikon bargain. Great optics and I have not found the focusing speed
of the "D" to be an issue for me at all. (F100 body) The whirring sound
has scared off a bird I was stocking up on once. Wiser, I place the
lens in MF mode if I think that the sound will make a difference.
Although once the shutter releases the game is up anyway but I got one
frame at least. I wish I could afford 600MM for birds but I am just not
into birds that much.

--
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name of justice, people claim rights to income, food, housing,
education, health care, transportation, ad infinitum? We can't. Positive
rights to receive such things, absent an obligation to earn them, must
violate others' liberty, by taking some of their income without their
consent. They are really just wishes, convertible into benefits for some
only by employing the government to violate others' rights not to have
what is theirs taken." --Pepperdine Professor Gary Galles

 

And digital is so marvelous and advanced that lenses are no longer
needed.

 

You've been reading too many marketing brochures.

 

Stop now before you really embarass yourself.

 

try selling a non G lens in 2 years time......you wont...........

H

 

in fact try selling any 35mm film gear in 2 years..........you will for
pennies

H

 

Too late!

 

Why would I want to sell a non-G lens?

 

That's what people have been saying for almost a decade.

 

FWIW, I've had 2 of these lenses and think it's a piece of $#!t.

As a stricvtly action-oriented optic it's fine, focuses fast and is 2.8.
However, for landscape shooting it's a disaster.omething in the lens formula
promotes fringing, at near-infionity focus it's internally unsharp at any
small aperture and worse, the tripod collar can't be tightened enough to
stop mirror slap induced blur. I HATE this lens and am glad to see it
replaced by the 70-200 VR.

 

That's odd--I've never heard this before, and find no such problems with my
80-200 f2.8d. Last summer at the East Lansing Art Festival I saw a 4 foot
by 6 foot shot of a field of tulips taken with this lens on Fuji
Velvia--from 10 foot away it looked sharp as could be. I couldn't get any
closer than that, as his booth was packed to capacity.

 

Of course the real irony here is that it's digital cameras that experience
the depreciation he speaks of the "moment you walk out the door," and not
film cameras. By his logic we could therefore conclude that digital is
dead.

 

It has been my understanding that the AF-S 80-200 was discontinued shortly
after Nikon introduced its replacement,--the G-lens and VR lens,--70-200 f/2.8
AF-S. That lens is quite nice from what I understand but the price is anther
quantum leap above the former AF-S. The non-AF-S 80-200 (with the best
designed tripod mount of them all) was a bit of a problem for me. I had it
fail TWICE during my time with it. It was the first time in my 30-plus years
of Nikon shooting that I had a Nikkor fail. There is apparently a clutch
mechanism within the focusing sleeve of that lens that has several parts (like
bands) that will suffer metal fatigue and no longer allow you to focus it
manually. It works fine in AF mode, but when you do to override it (instead of
going through a hunt and seek routine) it fails. Everyone should check their's
out periodically. After the first failure I sent it back to NY for repair. It
worked for around 2 years and then,--the same problem again. It went in for
repair locally and then I sold it, fully functioning, on eBay. I figured that
any late-model lens that can fail twice in about 2 years from very light use is
no lens for me.

The AF-S 80-200 is a very fine functioning lens, but there is some light fall
off apparent when your background is the sky, or something evenly illuminated.
It's not so bad that I would make the leap to the 70-200. I still want a lens
that I can put on my F2/T or my F3/T and it will function. the G-lenses are
not good news for a retro-camera user.

dan Lindsay
santa barbara