Yes and I always forget about this lens! The 100-400 is no slouch either for close up work, I use that lots! Still all I want for christmas is the Z 70-180 macro!
I’ve enjoyed seeing the film work you’ve pulled out of your archive with this lens Ricardo.
On a separate note I received the copy I ordered from MPB today that wasn’t able to focus to infinity. It turned out to be a very simple issue. Very happy with that as I hate opening up lenses this complicated especially as it doesn’t take much of an error to trash the wire traces for the CPU functions. Turned out that the front element group was loose and had rotated out a couple of turns. Once I carefully turned it back in it appears to work perfectly and infinity is reached throughout the zoom range. When I tested it out of the box it seemed to work at 70mm but could not get there zoomed in.
Also this lens and the 135 f2 DC I just got remind me how much I like the crinkle coated lenses from this era. When I first got into photography in college these types of lenses were what we had with our N90s and N8008s cameras for the school photo staff with the 80-200 2 ring being our main lenses. I’ve nearly fully converted to Z now. The Z lenses performance is great but they don’t have quite the same character to them.
Two more, from Campo Imperatore (aka Italy's "Little Tibet"), about a quarter of a century ago
[Nikon F-801; Micro-Nikkor AF ED 70-180/4.5-5.6D, Velvia 50]
Ripolini wrote:
Looking at pictures here I'm tempted to buy it again.
How does it perform with modern sensors? I ask because I've only used it with film.
TIA.
Seems to work fine on my Nikon DSLRs. I think it works best close to the subject - it is a micro after all. The Egret shot is not that good, but i was standing there camera in hand when he fkew up river to land. For subjects 12-24 inches away it seems to have more dof, and excellent resolving power compared to my fixed length micros at the same f stop. It is just an impression and probably wrong.
Got the AF Micro-Zoom-Nikkor 70-180mm f4.5-5.6 D ED IF out again. I know that name is a mouthful, but that is the proper name for this unique lens. It's an AF-D with ED elements, Internal Focusing, a Zoom, and a Micro lens. You would think by now that I would expect excellent image quality, but it always surprises me just how good it is.
