I've got one of those, and it's my favorite lens. I especially like to take it out to the local drive-thru safari.
----- Original Message ----- From: "John Francis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, August 30, 2003 9:45 PM Subject: How's the 80-320? > > Anyone familiar with the performance of the FA 80-320? > > I found that a Nikon D100 with the 75-300 lens was a really nice > lightweight combination for quite a bit of my on-track shooting. > There's no way you could call anything involving the 80-200/2.8 > lightweight, although I've often used that (with a Sigma 1.4x TC). > I'm not sure I want to step all the way down to the new FA-J lens, > but I seem to recall that the 80-320 was well received when it was > first released, so I'm thinking of trying one with the *ist-D > (yes, I too have one on order at Adorama). > > P.S. If anyone is still keeping track of who owns which bodies, > I've now added an SF-1 and the *ist-D to my MX/MX/SP/PZ-1p/MZ-S. >
