In the late 1970s the earlier AR 3.5/80-200mm was replaced by the the then new AR 4/80-200mm UC. As its precedessor, the AR 4/08-200 UC was a two-ring-zoom. It was a bit slower, less heavy (though at 835 g not lightweight), and quite a bit smaller than the AR 3.5/80-200mm. The lens has a pretty complex optical constfruction (14 lenses), and an extraordinarily short MFD of only 0.8 m. 


Its lens barrel is very well machined, and focuing is precise and smooth even nearly 50 years after the lens was introduced. The aperture ring works pretty well too, but not as smooth as the one of the AR 3.5/80-200mm. Since the lens ia quite a bit smaller and ligther than its precedessor, it doesn't have a tripod socket any more.

In the eraly 1980s the 80-200mm UC was replaced by a smaller "non-UC" AR 4/80-200mm with a completely different optical construction and an MFD of just 1.9m.

 

Konica Hexanon AR 80-200mmf4 UC section Konica Hexanon AR 80-200mmf4 UC pic MKONICA HEXANON 80-200mm 1:4
(14 Linsen in 10 Gruppen)

 

 (around 1978?)

 

 

* Mit 14 Elementen in 10 Gruppen deutlich einfacher aufgebaut als das Hexanon AR 3.5/80-200mm
* Eindeutig besser als das Konica Hexanon AR 3.5/80-200mm
* In etwa auf dem Niveau des Minolta MC 4.5/80-200mm, aber sichtlich schwächer als das Minolta MD / Leica R 4/70-210mm
* Naheinstellgrenze von nur 0.7 m über den ganzen Bereich - sehr ungewöhnlich für ein 80-200 er Zoom!