200/4.0 MicroNikkor

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At 200mm, it's less about increasing gear-to-subject

clearance ... the 105 accomplishes that for nearly

all applications. What you get at 200mm is an ability

to align subject foreground and background items to

assemble your visual message.

[addicted2light]

Gorgeous lens!

 

It was the one Nikkor "that got away" when I was still a Nikon shooter: I din't manage to find one at a decent price at the time, so I bought instead the 70-180 Micro.

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70-180 ... never knew about that one. Seems

it should have great advantages of its own !

 

As can be seen in the picture, no Nikon body

required. Maybe you will stumble upon a 200.

[addicted2light]

As can be seen in the picture, no Nikon body

required. Maybe you will stumble upon a 200.

 

 

Nowadays (actually since maybe 6 or 7 years already) I shoot almost only Contax glass, and I got rid of all my remaining Nikon glass because it focuses "the wrong way" and mixing the two of them in the field was quite annoying. Besides, this way I can carry only one adapter like my A7r was instead a digital Contax RTS

 

That said, I'd sorely miss the 35/1.4 pre-Ai...my sample was yellower than a lemon, but it was super sharp especially from f/2 and it rendered beautifully (it was the first batch, the one with 9 aperture blades for better bokeh).

 

The 70-180 it was on paper really useful, but it was slow (not a big deal, I shoot mostly landscapes) and more importantly it had a rather flimsy tripod foot that hurt sharpness quite a bit. Let's say we didn't bond in the end...and after I found a second hand 180/2.8 AF-D the 70-180 got kicked out to the curb!

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Here another version ... and yes I was aware of the 

background lettering, and no it doesn't mean a thing.

I noticed it in the finder, and tweaked the framing to

crop off the letter "D", just on a whim. The image of 

the background as seen in the bottles discloses the 

story of the lettering anywho. 

  

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