Beautiful lens with amazing vintage output. I recently bought one at a very affordable price. I take it everywhere since it’s very light and convenient zoom range. Thank you for the overview, beautiful pictures with unique color characteristics.
I love this lens! The zoom creep can be fixed, there are tutorials out there. I bought another one and there is no creep whatsover. The colors, contrast and sharpness of this lens pairs very well with my old Nikon D700.
Glad you gave this lens some love. The ironic thing is, Series "E" lenses which were considered by pros as budget lens back in the day, are built tougher than the modern plasticy lenses, and the optics were not compromised to make them less expensive, just the housing - at least that is my understanding. I have several series e lenses, including this one, and all perform great, and of course the older Nikkor lenses are solid as a rock. Cheers!
The squirrel shot is lovely. The budget AF Nikkor that surprised me was the 35-135, performed nicely for a pre-ED lens on my FX body, even at 36MP, and the non-D version can be found for very little.
@@MM. Thank you. I had read some good things about the 75-150 years ago, but I was still surprised how well it performed on the Z8. If I can find a good copy, I may give the 35-135 a try.
Very good lens, certainly a real value lens. I had one years ago and my only criticism was that the zoom range was a bit short on the long end for general use but for portrait shooters, it was a great range.
Great lens for the price. I had one with zoom creep and sold it. A month ago I bought another one (I've done that before) because I needed the range. And it doesn't have zoom creep.
I understand that there is no aperture coupling for the Z series bodies but I'm guessing this lens will couple with bodies like the D750, D850 etc. Nice review, thank you.
Beautiful lens with amazing vintage output. I recently bought one at a very affordable price. I take it everywhere since it’s very light and convenient zoom range. Thank you for the overview, beautiful pictures with unique color characteristics.
@@starscream25 Thanks for watching and your comments. It does render beautifully.
I love this lens! The zoom creep can be fixed, there are tutorials out there. I bought another one and there is no creep whatsover.
The colors, contrast and sharpness of this lens pairs very well with my old Nikon D700.
@@rodantkapoor9721 I’ll search for a tutorial on the zoom creep. Thanks for the information and for watching.
Glad you gave this lens some love. The ironic thing is, Series "E" lenses which were considered by pros as budget lens back in the day, are built tougher than the modern plasticy lenses, and the optics were not compromised to make them less expensive, just the housing - at least that is my understanding. I have several series e lenses, including this one, and all perform great, and of course the older Nikkor lenses are solid as a rock. Cheers!
@@oldfilmguy9413 the optics on most of them are good just not as good as the Nikkors. Thanks for watching.
The squirrel shot is lovely. The budget AF Nikkor that surprised me was the 35-135, performed nicely for a pre-ED lens on my FX body, even at 36MP, and the non-D version can be found for very little.
@@MM. Thank you. I had read some good things about the 75-150 years ago, but I was still surprised how well it performed on the Z8. If I can find a good copy, I may give the 35-135 a try.
Very good lens, certainly a real value lens. I had one years ago and my only criticism was that the zoom range was a bit short on the long end for general use but for portrait shooters, it was a great range.
@@n1k1george I agree, it is a great range for portraits. Thanks for watching.
Great lens for the price. I had one with zoom creep and sold it. A month ago I bought another one (I've done that before) because I needed the range. And it doesn't have zoom creep.
I understand that there is no aperture coupling for the Z series bodies but I'm guessing this lens will couple with bodies like the D750, D850 etc. Nice review, thank you.
@@tonytfuntek3262 you are correct. It will couple to the meter on all Nikon cameras starting with the Ai models of 1977. Thanks for watching.