The Nikon 180mm f/2.8 Nikkor ED Ai-S is a fast medium telephoto prime lens for the Nikon F bayonet mount, part of the manual-focus Ai-S Nikkor line introduced in the early 1980s. With its f/2.8 maximum aperture and ED (Extra-low Dispersion) glass, it was designed for sports, portrait and reportage work where reach, subject isolation and corrected chromatic aberration mattered.

UK auction activity on this lens is thin: the only verified hammer result on file is £80 in November 2025, so the documented saleroom price today sits at that single data point rather than a developed range. Buyers should treat this as an indicative wholesale level — auction hammer results exclude buyer's and seller's commission — and expect cleaner, boxed examples to sell for more than scruffy user copies when they appear. Because the sample is so small, what a 180mm f/2.8 Nikkor ED Ai-S is truly worth is best confirmed by tracking several future sales rather than relying on one price.