Hello, everybody! Are you an S or an M type? Do you seek pleasure or do you inflict pain? I most certainly neither of them, or at least none in the extreme sense. Some people get aroused by hurting their partners in intimacy, and it goes the other way around, too. I’m not a psychologist but a friend of mine told me it’s common that these preferences manifest in their daily lives. He’s an M so I’ll take his word for it. You know what? I sometimes undergo a lot of pain myself voluntarily, this has nothing to do with my sexuality at all. I do all that just because I wanted to review really big lenses and cameras for you! This is how much I love my readers, I’m risking a trip to the chiropractor just so I can give you great content. Please read this post with love and compassion to your dear servant, I shall serve the Nikon community forever like a slave.
Introduction:
The Zoom-Nikkor 80-200mm f2.8 ED Ai-S was released in 1982 and stayed in production for 3 years, a tad short for a professional zoom as far as Nikkors are concerned. This was made as a statement that Nikon is able to produce something like this. It’s the first of its kind, a true 80-200/2.8 that nobody else had at that time, showcasing just how good the F-mount is. It set the trend for the popular 70-200/2.8 lenses we have today. However, there is an even earlier variant of this lens with 2 separate rings, as opposed to the single one we have here. That lens is widely speculated to be a prototype, so we won’t consider it to be the first.
It’s a huge lens, the largest/fattest of its kind. It’s definitely bigger than all 70-200mm lenses that I know of and it’s by far the heaviest one. Every part is made of metal, the only plastic parts in this lens are those small bushings inside the lens.
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