On Wed, 04 Nov 1998 08:13:57 +0100, Borcsi wrote:

>I just browsed through the web and found that on the Nikon website in
>Japan (www.klt.co.jp/nikon) and the Nikon USA website (www.nikonusa.com)
>there are two different 80-200/f2.8D-AF lenses shown as 'current model'.
>The one on the japan website is a two ring version (one for zooming one
>for focusing) and a tripod mount, on the us website there is a one ring
>version (the same for zoom and focus). I understand that the newer
>80-200/2.8 is not as good as the older one.
>Which one is the newer? Which one is the 'better'?

Ah, but you didn't find my site... (Nikkor evaluation list,
under "I babble")! There are about to be 5 (!) different
Nikkor 80-200mm f2.8 zooms: the discontinued MF, the AF non-D,
the one-ring AF-D, the current AF-D with 2-rings and tripod
foot, and the soon-to-be-released "S" version. The first and
last are optically different from each other and different
from the middle three, which are optically the same... All
are first-rate (presumably... [the "S" is untried, but it is
a really fancy design optically...]), so my guess is that
the reported variations are accounted for by sample
variations...