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Nikon D90 and 18-200mm lens
Is the Nikkor AF-S 18-200mm VR ED IF lens fully compatible with
the D90? "Fully" meaning without any function crippled? Thanks in advance. Elaborations will be welcome. |
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Nikon D90 and 18-200mm lens
pawihte wrote:
Is the Nikkor AF-S 18-200mm VR ED IF lens fully compatible with the D90? "Fully" meaning without any function crippled? Thanks in advance. Correct. Elaborations will be welcome. :-) |
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Nikon D90 and 18-200mm lens
"pawihte" wrote in message ... Is the Nikkor AF-S 18-200mm VR ED IF lens fully compatible with the D90? "Fully" meaning without any function crippled? Thanks in advance. Elaborations will be welcome. I have given this lens some serious thought, but I decided on the 16-85 instead. Quality is more important to me than a long range. The 18-200 loses by a landslide and costs more. Both will work with the D90. Almost all Nikon lenses after 1990 will work and even much older ones, some with restrictions. -- Focus |
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Nikon D90 and 18-200mm lens
"pawihte" wrote:
Is the Nikkor AF-S 18-200mm VR ED IF lens fully compatible with the D90? "Fully" meaning without any function crippled? Thanks in advance. Elaborations will be welcome. See http://bythom.com/lensacronyms.htm which not only has a very detailed compatibility matrix for the what but also excellent explanation about the why. BTW: you could have found out easily yourself by looking into the manual or just following the standard route: The lens is at least AI-P (designed after ~1989), so it is fully compatible, unless the camera is a D40/40x/60 which would require an AF-S for auto-focus, but which lens even is. jue |
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Nikon D90 and 18-200mm lens
On Sat, 31 Jan 2009 22:37:47 +0000, Focus wrote:
"pawihte" wrote in message ... Is the Nikkor AF-S 18-200mm VR ED IF lens fully compatible with the D90? "Fully" meaning without any function crippled? Thanks in advance. Elaborations will be welcome. I have given this lens some serious thought, but I decided on the 16-85 instead. Quality is more important to me than a long range. The 18-200 loses by a landslide and costs more. Both will work with the D90. Almost all Nikon lenses after 1990 will work and even much older ones, some with restrictions. Based on everything I have read I would agree. You would also want to look at the Tokina 11-24? and the 70 to 200. Still, after you have all of those you may occasionally feel lazy and want to compromise and use an 18-200. But it would be luck to have that prize winning opportunity and not have the best lens with you to capture it. |
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Nikon D90 and 18-200mm lens
Jürgen Exner wrote:
"pawihte" wrote: Is the Nikkor AF-S 18-200mm VR ED IF lens fully compatible with the D90? "Fully" meaning without any function crippled? Thanks in advance. Elaborations will be welcome. See http://bythom.com/lensacronyms.htm which not only has a very detailed compatibility matrix for the what but also excellent explanation about the why. BTW: you could have found out easily yourself by looking into the manual or just following the standard route: The lens is at least AI-P (designed after ~1989), so it is fully compatible, unless the camera is a D40/40x/60 which would require an AF-S for auto-focus, but which lens even is. Thanks for the replies, everyone. I did some checkings first and it certainly looked as if the two are fully compatible. But all the sources I found, including the D90 document, listed compatibility by type (AF-S, IF and so on) and none listed specific lens models (maybe this is impracticable). I was worried that I might have missed something, so I thought it would be best to get confirmation here. Thanks again. |
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Nikon D90 and 18-200mm lens
On Sun, 01 Feb 2009 04:03:19 GMT, measekite wrote: On Sat, 31 Jan 2009 22:37:47 +0000, Focus wrote: "pawihte" wrote in message ... Is the Nikkor AF-S 18-200mm VR ED IF lens fully compatible with the D90? "Fully" meaning without any function crippled? Thanks in advance. Elaborations will be welcome. I have given this lens some serious thought, but I decided on the 16-85 instead. Quality is more important to me than a long range. The 18-200 loses by a landslide and costs more. Both will work with the D90. Almost all Nikon lenses after 1990 will work and even much older ones, some with restrictions. Based on everything I have read I would agree. You would also want to look at the Tokina 11-24? and the 70 to 200. Still, after you have all of those you may occasionally feel lazy and want to compromise and use an 18-200. But it would be luck to have that prize winning opportunity and not have the best lens with you to capture it. There's always comprimises. What if that prize winning opportunity would best be captured at 200mm but you had your 16-85 on? Steve |
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Nikon D90 and 18-200mm lens
On Sun, 01 Feb 2009 14:57:08 +0000, TheRealSteve wrote:
On Sun, 01 Feb 2009 04:03:19 GMT, measekite wrote: On Sat, 31 Jan 2009 22:37:47 +0000, Focus wrote: "pawihte" wrote in message ... Is the Nikkor AF-S 18-200mm VR ED IF lens fully compatible with the D90? "Fully" meaning without any function crippled? Thanks in advance. Elaborations will be welcome. I have given this lens some serious thought, but I decided on the 16-85 instead. Quality is more important to me than a long range. The 18-200 loses by a landslide and costs more. Both will work with the D90. Almost all Nikon lenses after 1990 will work and even much older ones, some with restrictions. Based on everything I have read I would agree. You would also want to look at the Tokina 11-24? and the 70 to 200. Still, after you have all of those you may occasionally feel lazy and want to compromise and use an 18-200. But it would be luck to have that prize winning opportunity and not have the best lens with you to capture it. There's always comprimises. What if that prize winning opportunity would best be captured at 200mm but you had your 16-85 on? Steve That depends if you want to shoot sports or nature etc. But if you should mostly street and landscapes you will catch your shot with the 16-85 on an APC sensor body (24-122) and you would have time to change lenses if you feel you need to. |
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Nikon D90 and 18-200mm lens
On Sun, 01 Feb 2009 15:12:24 GMT, measekite wrote: On Sun, 01 Feb 2009 14:57:08 +0000, TheRealSteve wrote: On Sun, 01 Feb 2009 04:03:19 GMT, measekite wrote: On Sat, 31 Jan 2009 22:37:47 +0000, Focus wrote: "pawihte" wrote in message ... Is the Nikkor AF-S 18-200mm VR ED IF lens fully compatible with the D90? "Fully" meaning without any function crippled? Thanks in advance. Elaborations will be welcome. I have given this lens some serious thought, but I decided on the 16-85 instead. Quality is more important to me than a long range. The 18-200 loses by a landslide and costs more. Both will work with the D90. Almost all Nikon lenses after 1990 will work and even much older ones, some with restrictions. Based on everything I have read I would agree. You would also want to look at the Tokina 11-24? and the 70 to 200. Still, after you have all of those you may occasionally feel lazy and want to compromise and use an 18-200. But it would be luck to have that prize winning opportunity and not have the best lens with you to capture it. There's always comprimises. What if that prize winning opportunity would best be captured at 200mm but you had your 16-85 on? Steve That depends if you want to shoot sports or nature etc. But if you should mostly street and landscapes you will catch your shot with the 16-85 on an APC sensor body (24-122) and you would have time to change lenses if you feel you need to. Here you're rationalizing. If you shoot mostly street and landscapes then the 16-85 is also the wrong lens for you. And you're not going to get that "prize winning" opportunity shooting streets and landscapes that have been shot a million times before by everyone else with a digital camera. We're discussing do-it-all walkaround travel lenses and having a prize-winning opportunity happen upon you. You don't know what you'll be shooting or what it is and it's certainly within the realm of possibilities that this once in a lifetime shot will be captured much better at 200mm than 85mm and that if you're fumbling around changing lenses, you'll miss it. BTW, since you seem to like Ken Rockwell (and I'll admit he does have some valuable info on his site) you might be interested in what he has to say about the 16-85 vs. 18-200. http://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/16-...s-18-200mm.htm The basic conclusion is that if you're shooting test charts and brick walls or are going to print your shot at 20x30, the 16-85 would be better. But for real world photography, it's not worth the extra cost considering the loss of the long end. For me, I was considering the 16-85 only because in certain situations it has less CA than the 18-200. But that wasn't enough reason for me to sell the 18-200 and get the 16-85. Espcially since CA is correctable if you have that prize winning shot and newer bodies even do it automatically. Steve |
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Nikon D90 and 18-200mm lens
On Sat, 31 Jan 2009 15:19:52 -0800, Jürgen Exner wrote:
: "pawihte" wrote: : Is the Nikkor AF-S 18-200mm VR ED IF lens fully compatible with : the D90? "Fully" meaning without any function crippled? Thanks in : advance. Elaborations will be welcome. : : See http://bythom.com/lensacronyms.htm which not only has a very : detailed compatibility matrix for the what but also excellent : explanation about the why. : : BTW: you could have found out easily yourself by looking into the manual : or just following the standard route: : The lens is at least AI-P (designed after ~1989), so it is fully : compatible, unless the camera is a D40/40x/60 which would require an : AF-S for auto-focus, but which lens even is. The gibbericity of that answer fully justifies the original question. Bob (recognizing another reason to be satisfied that his cameras are Canons) |
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