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gaeger
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 Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2011 4:21 am Post subject: Nikon Nikkor 3.5/35-200mm |
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gaeger wrote:
This is an odd lens. Its macro setting actually focuses pretty close. At 35mm, I find it really difficult to focus. At 200mm, it is so extended that light pressure on the barrel can cause one side of the frame or the other to be slightly out of focus. But it's built fairly well and relatively versatile, and -- my key virtue -- cheap. The last frame is straight out of the camera.
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yinyangbt wrote:
Wow !
Beautiful images !
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Orio wrote:
Results look really good.
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tomasg wrote:
i love the stones and water pic...
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Attila wrote:
I love all of them ! congrats!
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stingOM
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| Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2011 6:33 pm Post subject: |
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stingOM wrote:
Great sharpness and compositions! |
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NikonD wrote:
great lens, great samples! |
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gaeger
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gaeger wrote:
One more shot with the 35-200mm. In July, we were getting amazing sunsets in Seattle caused by the wildfires in Siberia sending smoke all the way across the Pacific. I shot this at Gasworks Park in Seattle. I didn't really notice all the little "stories" going on in the frame until I got home and started looking. This ran on the cover of msnbc.com just before it was renamed to NBCNews.com.
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Nisseliten wrote:
I love the last one. I think the ones on the left are all standing around talking about AF gear.
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gaeger
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gaeger wrote:
Over the years, I've taken as many photos with the 35-200mm Nikkor as with any other manual focus lens. It's just wonderful. I have three copies of it now -- one is pretty beat up, and I use that if I think the conditions might be harsh. I know some folks have had a different experience with it, which I think goes to show how important finding a good copy of any lens is.
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| Over the years, I've taken as many photos with the 35-200mm Nikkor as with any other manual focus lens. It's just wonderful. I have three copies of it now . . . |
Bravo! You're putting those lenses to good use, gaeger.
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Some years ago I got a sample of the Nikkor AiS 3.5-4.5/35-200mm in a box full of defective zoom lenses. Its fromt lens was slightly scratched, but more important its focuising was stuck at infinity (or near infinity). Since I couldn't find any repair information, and since the lens is a complicated one for sure (17 lenses, 13 elements, four groups plus a separate focusing mechanism for close-up) I put it on a shelf.
The AiS Nikkor 35-200mm was part of series of similarly styled AiS zooms - starting with the 3.5/28-50mm, and continuing with the ubiquituous 3.5-4.5/35-105mm and the rarer 3.5-4.5/35-135mm. The 35-135 and the 35-200 were disclosed in the same US patent 4770511, and there we can some pretty interesting information. Unlike the 35-135, the expensive 35-200mm did contain ED and LD glass (v=82 and v=70) as well as three lenses made from two very special glasses with an extremely high refractive index of nD=1.90 (v=35.7) and nD=1.86 (v=23), respectively. In addition there were five more lenses made from high refractive glass (nD=1. . Its pretty clear that the Nikon engineers tried hard to create an outstanding lens.
Today I finally decided to repair my AiS 3.5-4.5/35-200mm (details will follow later). Some quick testing gave some pretty mediocre results, but they are in line with photos published here and - more importantly - on the official Nikon site:
https://imaging.nikon.com/imaging/information/story/0047/
If you read the above story carefully, you'll notice that Haruo sato doesn't really praise the performance of the 35-200, but rather emphasizes the difficulties of designing such a lens around 1980.
More information, a test and sample images will follow.
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I couldn't agree with this more, especially when it comes to nikkor zooms.
For a lot of years, I was convinced that the 80-200 f4.5 N was the last successful nikon zoom, especially after some poor experiences with the A/i 80-200 f4.
Enter a a mint pair of often maligned nikon zooms: the 28-85mm f3.5-4.5, and the 35-105 f3.5-4.5 that Stephan mentions.
I was surprised by both of these lenses, especially with their mid f/l performances. The 28-85 is no slouch at the wide end either.
While I came into both lens experiences with low expectations, they are still far from perfect. Where they do work well often shows some very good results.
I still stay away from extreme focal length range zooms, unless they are dirt cheap- still less than usable results for me...
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Over the years, I've taken as many photos with the 35-200mm Nikkor as with any other manual focus lens. It's just wonderful. I have three copies of it now -- one is pretty beat up, and I use that if I think the conditions might be harsh. I know some folks have had a different experience with it, which I think goes to show how important finding a good copy of any lens is.
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Looking for information about that lens, I ran through your Flickr, and it's been once again the proof that the photographer is way more important than the lens  |
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