Thanks Jez,
Yes, the difference is pretty obvious. I had an emperor's new clothes
moment where I had Nikon repair telling me the lens was 'within
tolerance' and I was holding an A4 print that looked like I'd used a
soft focus filter. I was doubting my judgement, rational thought
process, etc. I don't know what their bench test does, but I'm sure
it doesn't include taking a picture and looking at it.
I don't have much confidence in the repair service at this point and
I'm probably looking at having to spend another £75 to rent a lens
next week (again), but to their credit they have said they will take
back the lens and strip it down again as I'm not happy. I have to
wonder whether they would do that if they had absolute confidence in
their tolerance specs.
James
On 9 Feb 2008, at 09:29, Jez Cunningham wrote:
> James - I've attached a picture from last weekend (you should get
> the attachment but the list won't) taken handheld at 1/180th ISO200
> f2.8 at 185mm with my 80-200 non-AF-S on a D-70. I can send the
> raw file if needed, and others.
> I let you make the comparison...
> br
> jez
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: James R <londonjames@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Feb 8, 2008 11:17 PM
> Subject: [OM] fuzzy as hell (OT as anything)
> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
>
>
>
> To the wise oldsters of the list, who must have hundreds of years
> experience between them and know a thing or two about testing
> lenses...
>
> Today I got back from Nikon UK repair service my 80-200 / 2.8 AF-S. I
> took some test shots and drove straight over to their facility to
> return it. I've been trying to get it fixed for some time (British
> understatement; one week short of 6 months and £520) and really feel I
> need some impartial opinion at this point. They claim their most
> experienced technician has worked on it and that it now falls within
> tolerance.
>
> Please take a look and see if you would accept it. Shots are taken
> tripod mounted, self-timer, studio flash with duration 700th/sec,
> shutter 200th/sec. Jpegs straight out of the camera. 100% crops. I
> tried refocusing and took several shots, then picked the best. It's at
> 200mm f2.8, but even so.
>
> http://web.mac.com/jamesroyall/OM/80-200.html
>
> The lens seems to have a really good rep. The crop on my page labelled
> 'momentum' comes from this page below. It's also 200mm at 2.8.
>
> http://www.momentcorp.com/review/nikon80-200afs.html
>
> What do you think?
> James
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