Hi Gang,
There has been a lot of interest lately in this lens. It is not a super lens for film shooting but it is fabulous on a DSLR, doing a little better than 1:1 at 2.5' or so. It holds focus and aperture through the zoom range, so you can focus on a critter at 70 and zoom in up to the 180 end to get a tight shot.
I think the lens was recently discontinued by Nikon. I was poking around and found one FS on ebay. I think there may be 2 or 3 on there now. Average used price is around $600 US.
http://cgi.ebay.com/...7&category=3343
Cheers
James
Nikkor 70-180
Started by james, Apr 22 2003 01:01 PM
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Posted 22 April 2003 - 01:01 PM
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Posted 22 April 2003 - 05:55 PM
Wash your mouth out James 
It is a really nice lens for topside use as well. Sadly my film that I used at the LBJ wildflower center with this lens was fogged (x-ray exposure, damn :angryfire: ), so I only have one shot from this lens that I have scanned so far, that would be this shot here....
That Aquatica system is starting to look really really attractive.. :ph34r:
It is a really nice lens for topside use as well. Sadly my film that I used at the LBJ wildflower center with this lens was fogged (x-ray exposure, damn :angryfire: ), so I only have one shot from this lens that I have scanned so far, that would be this shot here....
That Aquatica system is starting to look really really attractive.. :ph34r:
Why would I take a perfectly good camera underwater??
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Posted 22 April 2003 - 06:42 PM
Did I say something uncouth?
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Posted 22 April 2003 - 06:50 PM
Not so much uncouth, I just happen to like the lens for film shooting B)It is not a super lens for film shooting....
Why would I take a perfectly good camera underwater??
D300, D200, D70, 12-24 f4 AFS DX, 60mm f2.8, 70-200 f2.8 AF-S VR, 105 f2.8 AF-S VR, Tokina Wunderlens.
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D300, D200, D70, 12-24 f4 AFS DX, 60mm f2.8, 70-200 f2.8 AF-S VR, 105 f2.8 AF-S VR, Tokina Wunderlens.
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Posted 22 April 2003 - 07:07 PM
My friends like it underwater with film, too. Guess it's just a good lens.
Nice flower photo, craig. I'm enduring an implementation of EE as we speak so your site looks real familiar!
Nice flower photo, craig. I'm enduring an implementation of EE as we speak so your site looks real familiar!
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