steve_bellayr Posted June 27, 2018 Share Posted June 27, 2018 I just purchased this lens. I am inquiring if anyone has experience with this lens. The one review that I read states that it is outstanding. A further question is lens shade or hood & filter. The thread mount on the lens is 34.5mm. My search for anything in that size has turned up negative. The lens appears deeply recessed and might not need one. Any thoughts? Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDMvW Posted June 27, 2018 Share Posted June 27, 2018 Generally, a good source for a broad range of filter thread sizes is http://www.camerafilters.com/, but I don't see any 34.5mm offered there. I think the rear-mounted filters in some telephotos might have been of that size, perhaps. If you have any access to a long-standing camera store, especially in a large city, this is the sort of thing they sell out of a barrel of odds and ends. I've had similar problems with these old, small diameter lenses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDMvW Posted June 27, 2018 Share Posted June 27, 2018 Some people seem to like it: Nikon LTM 35/f3.5 and 28/f3.5 Review Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian1664876441 Posted June 30, 2018 Share Posted June 30, 2018 (edited) I use an Ednalite 661 34.5mm Series VI filter adapter. I've also found 34mm filters with a little teflon tape wrapped around the threads will work. Nicca sold 34.5mm filters, tend to be collector's items. But I found one in a Lot. The 2.8cm F3.5 also has an inner set of threads, Nikkor_28_F35 by fiftyonepointsix, on Flickr This one takes a 26.5mm filter. Some others take 27mm filters for the inner threads. I have a of of filters. Edited June 30, 2018 by Brian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stephen_ascherl Posted June 30, 2018 Share Posted June 30, 2018 The Nikkor-W (wide) 2.8cm is my favorite lens. I purchased it as substitute for the Leica Summaron 28/5.6 that's much more expensive, and the Leica Elmarit 28 ASPH that is larger. Mine is late production, 717xxx and deletes the red "C" (coated, as is also the case with Brian's). I don't use a filter, and have never seen any documentation that it came with any hood, but I don't find a hood to be necessary. The only issue I've had is that you need to remember to keep you finger out of the field of view: the lens is so small and the field of view so great...! As an editorial aside and as a M9 user, for me a Nikkor-P 10.5cm and a Nikkor-W 2.8cm with ltm to M adapters are all I ever use anymore! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glen_h Posted July 1, 2018 Share Posted July 1, 2018 I have a Schneider LTM 35/2.8 that has a spring-fit lens shade that uses a series VI filter. With the lens shade, it still fits in the usual Canon case. This makes the filter big enough to avoid vignetting that might happen with a smaller filter. -- glen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troll Posted July 2, 2018 Share Posted July 2, 2018 I just purchased this lens. I am inquiring if anyone has experience with this lens. The one review that I read states that it is outstanding. A further question is lens shade or hood & filter. The thread mount on the lens is 34.5mm. My search for anything in that size has turned up negative. The lens appears deeply recessed and might not need one. Any thoughts? Thank you. I never had a Nikkor 28mm lens, but the tiny Nikkor 35mm f:3.5 was my first accessory lens in 1952. I absolutely loved it. It produced sharp, beautiful rounded 3-d like images. I had no idea at the time that it was just a coated copy of Leica's 1930 35mm Elmar Recently, I found an old Kodachrome taken in the late '50s with this lens, and it was beautiful just as I remembered it. What I didn't know at the time was that the image was SOFT, soft, soft, which was revealed when I high-definition scanned that Kodachrome. It doesn't matter -- the images are beautiful, and that's what counts. The 28mm lens that I do have is Canon's 28mm f:2.8, which I still use on my LTM cameras. Except wide open, it is as good as my M-mount Elmarits. It was and is everything that a 28mm should be, unlike their cheaper 28mm f:3.5 which was Canon's answer to the above Nikkor, but was an optical disaster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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