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<blockquote data-quote="STM" data-source="post: 153237" data-attributes="member: 12827">I honestly don't know where the oft-held misconception comes from that the AIS lenses are somehow optically inferior to the &quot;latest&quot; Nikkors. Many of the &quot;new&quot; Nikkors are simply AIS optical formulas carried over into autofocus. Why reinvent the wheel if the wheel is already perfectly round? And with the microprism screen I have in my D700, my eye's ability to accurately focus the lens is just as good as any autofocus system and a whole lot better and faster in lower light levels. And I never have to worry about the camera focusing on something other than what I wanted it to focus on, which can be especially critical in a lot of the portraiture work I do where I like to work only 1 stop down on fast lenses like my 180mm f/2.8 so as to throw the background completely out of focus. &quot;New&quot; does not always translate into &quot;better&quot;. Any of you &quot;old school&quot; musicians out there will probably agree that&nbsp; many of the older tube-type amplifiers like the Marshall, Fender or Peavey's, are far better in a lot of respects than the newer solid state ones. They put out more power and if a tube blows, you simply replace it and it is a whole lot cheaper than replacing a circuit board or other solid state &quot;guts&quot;.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="STM, post: 153237, member: 12827"] I honestly don't know where the oft-held misconception comes from that the AIS lenses are somehow optically inferior to the "latest" Nikkors. Many of the "new" Nikkors are simply AIS optical formulas carried over into autofocus. Why reinvent the wheel if the wheel is already perfectly round? And with the microprism screen I have in my D700, my eye's ability to accurately focus the lens is just as good as any autofocus system and a whole lot better and [I]faster[/I] in lower light levels. And I never have to worry about the camera focusing on something other than what I wanted it to focus on, which can be especially critical in a lot of the portraiture work I do where I like to work only 1 stop down on fast lenses like my 180mm f/2.8 so as to throw the background completely out of focus. "New" does not always translate into "better". Any of you "old school" musicians out there will probably agree that many of the older tube-type amplifiers like the Marshall, Fender or Peavey's, are far better in a lot of respects than the newer solid state ones. They put out more power and if a tube blows, you simply replace it and it is a whole lot cheaper than replacing a circuit board or other solid state "guts". [/QUOTE]

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