An old great lens with excellent soft-out focus backgrounding ("bokeh") for very cheap price, this a shame. People not respect this excellent lens.
Vendor name
| Type name
| Product year
| | Nikon | Nikkor | 1962 | Focal min (mm)
| Focal max (mm)
| Focus min(cm)
| | 200 | 200 | 200 | | Aperture max | Aperture min
| Lens size (mm) | | 4 | 32 | 72.5x163
| Elements
| Diaphragm ACTION | Weight (g)
| 4 elements in 3 groups
| manual
| 630 | Filter size (mm)
| aNGULAR FIELD
| Body mount
| | 52 | 12'20 | Nikon F
| I read somewhere in forum, this lens is a dog, this lens has not enough details blah,blah and on other forum this is great product etc. So I decide I will buy one and let see with my eyes what is the truth. I don't know how say this a dog. I say this lens is great, bokeh one of the best what I ever seen, don't forget I have large collection on old manual focus lenses /Pentacon,Meyer,Carl Zeiss Jena see in the gallery/.Very sharp lens same sharp as other Nikkors or Carl Zeiss Jena best ones. Color rendering is not the best , but I guess not worst than Nikon D50 kit lens.Before I took this test photos /see in the gallery/ I forgot to clean back lens from dust, perhaps result would be better with clean lens. I really satisfied with the performance of Nikkor-Q 200mm f/4, it was easy to set right focus, not heavy at all. I found only one weekness, you can't set aperture on mounted lens, just if dismount from camera body. This feature comes from NIKON design, non AI lens aperture collar not works on NIKON DSLR.If you would change this, send to a camera shop , they should convert to AI and apperture settings will works fine.  User opinions:
I love the lens. Sure it is not as good as the 180/2.8ED but who cares. It is small small small, has a built in hood, takes standard 52mm filters (well standard back then =), and makes good photos. I am still trying to decide between a Nikon or a Canon DSLR. If I choose Nikon I will get this lens chipped, I like it so much. (by Jamie W. Photo.net Nikon Forum) I will have to consider getting this lens AI'd. Why this older version gets a "bad reputation" stumps me. I think it's a hell of a good lens. Great contrast, rich color, sharp images. (by Myron Leski Photo.net Nikon Forum) I have this 200 f4 and use it with an F3 also, it's a very fine lens, very compact, it's simple optical formula provides good flare resistance. I use it for closeups, with nikon's 3T and 4T diopters and plan buying the pn11 extension tube. Pk11a is quite useless with this focal length, as it is very short, you could gain a little in the closest focusing distance, wich could be good for tight portraits, but no macro with 200mm and PK11a. (by Marco P Photo.net Nikon Forum) Sample pictures: Gallery Pbase.com(Hqdesign) Resources: mir.com kenrockwell.com nikkor-q 200mmi |
