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Solid built with an elegant appearance. Optical performance near prime lens quality. As a drywall installer, It deserves a 5 star!

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Most fixed-focus lenses in this price range from other manufacturers will fall short in comparison to this zoom. Integrated lens hood means you'll really use it. | home renovations auckland

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Superb optic on my daily nature walk-abouts. I bought it on eBay and it is mint and came in original box with all the papers, including the price sticker from a Los Angeles suburb camra store that said $1,995. I pulled out my Leitz price list and found the dealer net in '83 was over $1,100 and I paid a little over $200 for it in like new condition! On the Sony NEX 7, the images are all you could hope - even for a prime lens. I love my Zeiss 24mm f/1.8 but for nature and portraits the Vario-Elmar R gives me the same contrast and resolution at 1/4 the price.

No shake compensation but for critical work I alway carry my 2-lb. SLIK tripod and that produces even better picture sharpness than relying on built-in dampers. F/4.5 prohibits low-level lighting flexibility without pushing ISO to above 800 and beyond.

Glad to see my results backed up by the experiences of other responders. After 72 years behind the camera, I have formed opinions based upon my own empirical uses, not what I read on the net or in mags. Leica and Zeiss are still the paramount lens makers and, yes, you do still get what you pay for.

Reasonable VfM - for a Leica lens! One of the best buys in the range. (It is made by Kyocera to Leitz design and quality control.) Handles superbly. Smoooooth as silk. Image sharpness and contrast are just outstanding for a zoom, even better than the Canon 70-200'Ls'. This zoom will beat the majority of fixed-focus lenses in this range from other manufacturers. Built-in lenshood - which means that you will actually use it!

Some will find it a tad heavy and longish for convenience, but I personally admire Leitz' determination to specify materials and build quality primarily to guarantee image quality. What's a lens for?

An excellent lens, with outstanding image quality and flare resistance for a zoom. A joy to use, with a real quality feel. When used with the 2x converter shows only marginal image degradation and gives (nearly) 160-400mm - which is more than long enough for most uses.

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Suprab optic, solidly built ! Cheap!(compare to other Leica lens)

Heavy!

This is the 2nd sharpest zoom lens of this range in the world.(The first being the 70-180 apo vario)even better than Contax 80-200/f4.

Customer Service

Excellent!

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Contax 80-200/f4 Nikon 80-200/f2.8

Very Smooth Operation
Replace several heavy fixed focal-length lenses

Front part of lens(focus ring) is so easily move without touch when shot is done toward earth.

It's a very good color saturation and resolution capability. Especially blue and green color tone reproduction capability!

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Nikon AF 80-200 F/2.8 ED-NEW

Solid built with elegant appearance. Optical performance near prime lense quality.

Perhaps the 60mm filter size and it's price compare to other brand.

If you do not require a super fast lense with A F2.8, this is the lense to go. You could now travel light while still get good photos. Again, no doubt on its optical performance with the price you paid for it.

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Canon 70-200mm F2.8L
Contax 80-200mm F4