ShunCheung

The I was for the internal AF motor inside those lenses.

Seems to be a decent article. I bought my first Nikon lens in 1977 when they introduced Auto Indexing (AI). Hence I am not that familiar with anything prior to 1977. There are some major misses, e.g. AF-I. Nikon first introduced AF lenses with internal AF motors in 1992, and there were only four AF-I models ever introduced: 300/2.8, 400/2.8, 500/4 and 600/4. Those were promptly replaced by AF-S lenses starting in 1996, not 1998 as that article suggests. I still have an old Nikon brochure printed in 1996 when they introduced the first three AF-S lenses: same as those four AF-I lenses, except that the 400/2.8 AF-S was added two years later in 1998. Initially AF-S was a symbol for very expensive Nikon lenses, but Nikon broadened that out a few years later.

Note: Consider keeping uploads no larger than 1600 pixels on the long side when it matters, and sticking with 1000 pixels when the image feels no pain at that resolution. On data size/compression, try to keep things under 1mb, shooting for 600kb when you can stop there. Note that this includes photos hosted off-site (at Flickr, Photobucket, your own site, etc.). New to this thread? The general guidelines for these Wednesday threads are right here: https://www.photo.net/forums/topic/398109-guidelines-for-nikon-forum-wednesday-image-threads. For now, we're sticking with 1, 2, or 3 images per week as you see fit.

If photo.net logs you out, you might not be able to see some of the latest posts. The work around to enter a forum may let you see everything.

I may have a work around on that issue. For example, this is a direct link to the NO WORDS forum: https://www.photo.net/forums/forum/23-no-words/ If you append this to the URL: ?_fromLogin=1 https://www.photo.net/forums/forum/23-no-words/?_fromLogin=1 You are logged in and you may be able to start a new thread. For this Nikon Forum, the URL with the appendix would be: https://www.photo.net/forums/forum/20-nikon/?_fromLogin=1 You can add that suffix to a thread also, and you can then follow up.

It is definitely related to the login glitch. Actually by now I cannot reply to either one of the two threads I mentioned, but I have no problems with the Nature Forum, where I am not asked to login again. And obviously I have no problem with this forum so far.

The weirdness continues. Now I mostly have difficulty replying to this thread as well. I think the login process is messed up. BTW, that purple part was not intended to be a link.

This new thread seems to be working fine, but somehow I cannot follow up to this thread: New Nikon Camera Products So Far in 2024: One Z6iii and Three Lenses It just keeps on prompting me to login.

There is a very weird glitch. There is one particular thread on the Nikon Forum that I cannot reply to; it would keep on asking me to login again and again, but somehow other threads are ok: I cannot follow up to this thread, which I started a few days ago: https://www.photo.net/forums/topic/675770-new-nikon-camera-products-so-far-in-2024-one-z6iii-and-three-lenses/#comment-5963252 But this thread is ok: https://www.photo.net/forums/topic/676202-bonus-test-thread-nikon-friday/#comment-5963268

Follow up

As a lot of us are aware, photo.net has had a number of web site issues lately. I just realized that I can follow up to threads on the Nature Forum, but not here on the Nikon Forum: it keeps on asking me to login again and again. However, it looks like I can start a new thread. Hopefully if things are not ok now, they will be a bit later, and we can contribute more images for this week. Please be patient.

I got complaints that certain members haven't been able to post for a couple of days. Not sure what their issue is, but I noticed that it is not retaining my login. Every time I need to login to photo.net again.

King vulture

There is already a Z-mount 70-300mm zoom, but it is a Tamron branded lens, and it is f4.5 to 6.3, not the typical Nikkor f4.5 to f5.6, but IMO the biggest issue is that there is no optical VR so that you are left with only IBIS on FX Z bodies. For Nikon themselves, they have optical VR on all Z lenses that reach 200mm or longer (plus the 105mm macro and several DX lenses, as no current DX Z body has IBIS). I am not sure IBIS alone is sufficient for 300mm. You can take a look at Thom Hogan's review: https://www.zsystemuser.com/z-mount-lenses/third-party-lenses/reviews-of-third-party-z/tamron-70-300mm-f45-63-lens.html That Tamron 70-300 is available in Sony E mount or Nikon Z, but for whatever reason, the Z version is $100 more than the E version.