The Nikon 200mm f/4 Micro-NIKKOR AI-s is precision incarnate. Everything about it says precise. The focus is out-of-this-world: one finger is enough to flick the focus ring, which feels as if it's floating on air, from infinity to 1:2.
This 200mm f/4 Micro-NIKKOR uses internal focusing, so nothing moves externally as focused.
It's a great lens for anything, however if you're shooting products with black-and-white graphics in the closest macro range and looking closely, you'll see some red-blue color fringing on sharp outlines at the sides.
Optics are excellent otherwise, and the mechanical quality of this piece is fantastic.
This manual-focus Nikon 200mm f/4 Micro-NIKKOR AI-s works great with most Nikon cameras, film and digital.
It works flawlessly with every manual focus Nikon ever made, from the F of 1959 through the FM3a and today's FM-10.
On the D3X, D3s, D3, D700, D300, D200, D2 and F6, use the "Non-CPU Lens Data" menu option to set 200mm and f/4 to get full color matrix metering, EXIF data and finder read-out of set aperture. It works great in aperture-preferred as well as manual modes on these cameras.
It works perfectly on every professional film camera (F, F2, F3, F4, F5, F6), and adds Matrix metering on the FA, F4 and F6.
The meters of cheaper digital (D90, D5000 and below) and cheaper film cameras (N80 and below) will not couple (or work at all) with this lens, so you'll be on your own guessing exposure using the rear LCD or an external meter, or get a tiny Gossen Digisix meter and adapter to meter manually.
See Nikon Lens Compatibility for details on your camera. Read down the "AI, AI-s" column for this lens.
History
1978-1982
This 200mm Micro-NIKKOR was available in its first AI version.
It has a thinner tripod collar and a wider aperture ring than the AI-s version shown here. It is identical optically.
1982-2005
The AI-s version shown here is a minor cosmetic update from the AI version, with the same optics.
The sample shown here is from the middle of 1990.
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