Murray Foote wrote: I think he actually means it is manual focus
Remorhaz wrote:Lucky the D800 has AF capability to f/8 on all those centre focus points
While it won't autofocus, the in-viewfinder focus assist lamps work on both the D800 and the D7000
Murray Foote wrote: it should be light and portable and fun.
Precisely. And it came at the right price
I am actually wondering if these might be more use now than back in the day. Then you had two degrees of freedom: Shutter and Aperture. This "lens" fixes the latter, so you only have one degree of freedom left. That made it pretty limiting. These days, you can lock aperture (by selecting this lens) and still have a reasonable amount of latitude by playing with ISO and shutter. Actually aperture is not quite fixed. The manual talks about changing effective aperture by adding ND filters. The original ND4 that comes with it is long gone though.
The post 1983 versions of this lens focused down to 1.5m and were quite an effective macro. My one is the earlier
model that close focuses to 4 metres. There was an even earlier
model that was f/5 but close focused to 15m - if you can call that close!