bea@alice.UUCP (Bea Chambers) (04/21/85)
A friend of mine has an 80-200 AI lens (2.8) and I have a 70-210E lens (4.0). We used my camera (Nikon FE) and took several pictures with both lenses. We took some with a tripod and some were hand-held. When we projected the slides, we could not see any difference. I also dropped that lens once and nothing happened to it (whew!)
hkr4627@acf4.UUCP (Hedley K. J. Rainnie) (04/22/85)
That's pretty amazing considering that the Nikkor has Extra Low Dispersion (ED) glass, and costs close to $1,600 as compared with the $190 Nikon E. On the other hand, the E is a lot newer, and the faster aperture of the Nikkor might cost something in image quality. -r-
bea@alice.UUCP (Bea Chambers) (04/24/85)
Let me make something clear. The AI lens tested was the AI 80-200/4 NOT the 80-200/4.5 ED. The first of those sells for something like $360 whereas the ED sells for close to $1100. MY lens was the 70-210/4 macro zoom E.