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Happy Birthday, Lanya.

Can’t endure the lack of a tele lens since my old crappy Sigma 70-300mm has been traded for Tamron 70-300 of Pentax mount(well, for my girlfriend, personally I would prefer Tamron’s than Sigma’s after trying both.), I am looking around adorama’s used store to find some cheap but good ones to fill up the gap. I am kind of long waiting for a chance to get AFS 70-300 VR since it is said to be very fast and the actual output is fairly well, but the biggest problem is the budget, while I can’t simply afford those plastic toys which costs me some 500USD, both in money and in mind. So I am always looking for the good old days which may give me some lucky. Honestly speaking, Nikon does very good job for the compatibility issue on new DSLR with vintage lens. I have tried a AIS Micro-Nikkor 55mm/f3.5 sometime age and be surprised by the support of accurate metering and focus on my D200. From then on, I persuade myself with the mind that I should never go to those AFS ones unless I can earn more than 6000USD a month.

OK, today’s hero is AF 70-210mm f/4-5.6, which is an non-D version and I found it in Adorama. Firstly, it is very cheap, it costs me exactly 100USD after damning tax in NY, so I wouldn’t be on diet after buying this. And the most important thing is, as advertised on all review websites I visited, it is absolutely good. I like the the tone of this lens, and enjoy the sharpness only Nikon will give to you. I was at first been told by some reviews that maybe there is a very heavy ghost, flares and CA when using in the digital body, but after trying in a very extreme condition(against the sunlight, shoot the leaves and branches), I am totally satisfied with the performance it gives. And though there is no VR or ED in those good old days, and it is not constant aperture lens, but the MAX aperture is gorgeous and useful in the whole range. You can still get f/4 near 100mm, and f/4.2 near 135mm, I believe f/5 is up to near 185mm.

So I bring the lens to the central park, NYC is getting hotter those days and generally speaking the “official” summer should hit here in the first week of June. I shot almost all photos below with this 70-210mm.

Enjoy!

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