I agree with Johnny. Sure looks out of focus to me. Is this autofocus
or manual focus? Does it get better if you manual focus? So it's
within tolerance? Tolerance of what?
Chuck Norcutt
James R wrote:
> To the wise oldsters of the list, who must have hundreds of years
> experience between them and know a thing or two about testing lenses...
>
> Today I got back from Nikon UK repair service my 80-200 / 2.8 AF-S. I
> took some test shots and drove straight over to their facility to
> return it. I've been trying to get it fixed for some time (British
> understatement; one week short of 6 months and £520) and really feel I
> need some impartial opinion at this point. They claim their most
> experienced technician has worked on it and that it now falls within
> tolerance.
>
> Please take a look and see if you would accept it. Shots are taken
> tripod mounted, self-timer, studio flash with duration 700th/sec,
> shutter 200th/sec. Jpegs straight out of the camera. 100% crops. I
> tried refocusing and took several shots, then picked the best. It's at
> 200mm f2.8, but even so.
>
> http://web.mac.com/jamesroyall/OM/80-200.html
>
> The lens seems to have a really good rep. The crop on my page labelled
> 'momentum' comes from this page below. It's also 200mm at 2.8.
>
> http://www.momentcorp.com/review/nikon80-200afs.html
>
> What do you think?
> James
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