@bwv812 wrote:
Oh, in my prior post about the #2 selling Nikon lens I only meant to refer to your category of lenses under $200. The second-highest selling Nikkor in this category, the 50/1.8 AF-D, needs an in-camera motor. The two Nikkors that sell in larger volumes, the 35/1.8 and 50/1.8 AF-S, both have the motor in the lens. With the AF-S 50 selling in higher volumes, I have difficulty believing that people with low-end bodies that can't drive the AF are buying this lens.
Technically, the F3AF (Nikon's first AF body, from 1983) also lacked an AF motor in the body.
The first AF-S lenses were not zooms but the flagship tele-primes. The 300/2.8 and 600/4 both got AF-S in the summer of 1996.