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<blockquote data-quote="Joseph Bautsch" data-source="post: 7714" data-attributes="member: 654">Welcome to the Nikonites Community. If you would please complete your profile with some information about your self as well as what camera lens and equipment you are using. It will help in answering your questions. We would like to see some of your air show shots in your gallery. You will be able to upload to the gallery after you have completed five posts.&nbsp; As to the lens you are looking at, do you know the specific &quot;old Nikon&quot; it was used on? How old is the lens? Nikon has used the same bayonet type mount for many years and it should mount. Is there any way you can give the lens a test &quot;drive&quot; on the D80? If the lens was used on a F3 Nikon it has the Nikon AI-S mount and should fit the D80. This lens, however, may not be suitable either. You will encounter several problems using it to shoot flying jets. The lens is heavy it weighs 5 lb. At least a monopod if not a tripod is recommended. It is slow with a f/5.6 at the 120mm end and f/8 at the 600mm end. Lens shake will be a problem unless you can get the shutter speed up to at least 1/600 sec. preferably higher. That will probably require a much higher ISO than usual and the D80 does not do well above ISO 400. The lens is also manuel focus. So you will have to find the jets in the air, zoom in, focus, and track them to get a shot. Not a very easy task. To do what you want I would go to a higher end Nikon body and a higher speed Nikon zoom with VRII.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Joseph Bautsch, post: 7714, member: 654"] Welcome to the Nikonites Community. If you would please complete your profile with some information about your self as well as what camera lens and equipment you are using. It will help in answering your questions. We would like to see some of your air show shots in your gallery. You will be able to upload to the gallery after you have completed five posts. As to the lens you are looking at, do you know the specific "old Nikon" it was used on? How old is the lens? Nikon has used the same bayonet type mount for many years and it should mount. Is there any way you can give the lens a test "drive" on the D80? If the lens was used on a F3 Nikon it has the Nikon AI-S mount and should fit the D80. This lens, however, may not be suitable either. You will encounter several problems using it to shoot flying jets. The lens is heavy it weighs 5 lb. At least a monopod if not a tripod is recommended. It is slow with a f/5.6 at the 120mm end and f/8 at the 600mm end. Lens shake will be a problem unless you can get the shutter speed up to at least 1/600 sec. preferably higher. That will probably require a much higher ISO than usual and the D80 does not do well above ISO 400. The lens is also manuel focus. So you will have to find the jets in the air, zoom in, focus, and track them to get a shot. Not a very easy task. To do what you want I would go to a higher end Nikon body and a higher speed Nikon zoom with VRII. [/QUOTE]

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