My 3 Vorrezensenten have boasted rightly the focus of the lens, so I have to say anything, except that you can take pictures with complete impunity maximum aperture with this lens. This works with KB / FX wonderfully at a shallow depth of field with a wonderfully soft background. In DX converted a 2.8 / 270mm arise from the relatively small lens with also best imaging performance. The whole is packed in a relatively small housing with just 760g weight with excellent workmanship. Keeping as an alternative, the 2.8 / 70-200, however, can be very start to wonder, because the latter is not only a large pipe with thread 77cm (180: 72mm), but also weighs 1.470g (ie smooth double the 180). So this will be dragged along with the rest of the equipment.
Versatile, the 180 is also because it can be perfectly combined with a 1.4x converter. At KB / FX a lens 4/250, at a 4/380 DX arises. Be careful when using Nikon converters: Because the lens does not have a built-in focusing motor, there manual focusing is announced. But there is a remedy in the form of Kenko DG MC 1.4x Pro 300, the autofocus transmits by mechanical means from the housing, which in cooperation with this lens also works flawlessly. The converter is so good that you can use this lens without significant impairment of quality at full aperture in its imaging performance! Those interested in an assessment of this Tele Converters, may my review on the relevant page read (****). With a 2x - converter I have not tried the lens, hear, however, that also goes with a reasonable result, but not quite as good as with the 1.4x converter.
Furthermore, the lens can be also be used with good results for close-ups. For this there are 2 options: On the one hand with the excellent Canon 500D close-up lens, which is available in the matching 72er Einschraubgröße, on the other hand with different intermediate rings, thereby being flexible at magnifications. I have the Nikon Extension Rings PK-11 (for an underflow of the fairly wide "Nah" setting limit of about 1.50 m), mostly PK-13 (usually even from the open hand) and PN 11 (up to the magnification ratio 1: used 2 incl. tripod socket!). Thus the lens mutates into a MF lens, which is not a defect in close-ups, at least silent objects.
The color trend of optics is rather slightly warm because the lens has been designed especially for fashion and people photography. An image stabilizer, of which I am a huge fan otherwise, I have in this high-intensity lens that is usually open hand, not missing, especially in digital photography with its phenomenal high-ISO capabilities.
I mean, Nikon has the optical Uraltschätzchen rightly still in the program. Whoever buys it and over it is clear that there is no zoom, of course, will love it!
