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<blockquote data-quote="crycocyon" data-source="post: 126737" data-attributes="member: 13076">It was like Christmas as yesterday I picked up at the post office both the 180mm f/2.8 Ai-S and the 100-300 f/5.6 Ai-S lenses that arrived coincidentally, and took some photos of them on my D7000 and D800. I'll be doing some test images but the initial ones seemed very promising (I'll post some when I do more systematic testing on a tripod because today I was just doing hand-held). Both the 180mm f/2.8 Ai-S and the 100-300 f/5.6 Ai-S lens could be successfully programmed into the D7000 and D800 and I had metering, focus assist in the viewfinder, and the cameras recognized the apertures and manual changing of f-stop. The 100-300 was a bit difficult to compose rapidly and focus at the same time (something that was easier with my old 100-300 Minolta zoom), but I was still quite pleased with the initial performance of the two lenses on these DSLRs. It is interesting to see the difference in magnification factor with the DX (D7000) vs FX (D800) cameras. Since I enjoy seeing photos of different combinations of lenses and cameras, I thought some of you here might enjoy seeing a few as well. [ATTACH]30247[/ATTACH][ATTACH]30248[/ATTACH][ATTACH]30249[/ATTACH][ATTACH]30250[/ATTACH][ATTACH]30251[/ATTACH][ATTACH]30252[/ATTACH][ATTACH]30253[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="crycocyon, post: 126737, member: 13076"] It was like Christmas as yesterday I picked up at the post office both the 180mm f/2.8 Ai-S and the 100-300 f/5.6 Ai-S lenses that arrived coincidentally, and took some photos of them on my D7000 and D800. I'll be doing some test images but the initial ones seemed very promising (I'll post some when I do more systematic testing on a tripod because today I was just doing hand-held). Both the 180mm f/2.8 Ai-S and the 100-300 f/5.6 Ai-S lens could be successfully programmed into the D7000 and D800 and I had metering, focus assist in the viewfinder, and the cameras recognized the apertures and manual changing of f-stop. The 100-300 was a bit difficult to compose rapidly and focus at the same time (something that was easier with my old 100-300 Minolta zoom), but I was still quite pleased with the initial performance of the two lenses on these DSLRs. It is interesting to see the difference in magnification factor with the DX (D7000) vs FX (D800) cameras. Since I enjoy seeing photos of different combinations of lenses and cameras, I thought some of you here might enjoy seeing a few as well. [ATTACH=CONFIG]30247._xfImport[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]30248._xfImport[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]30249._xfImport[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]30250._xfImport[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]30251._xfImport[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]30252._xfImport[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]30253._xfImport[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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