Where can I get Technical Data on Nikon Lenses?

[steve williams]

I'm trying to find out info, such as how many aperture blades each

particular Nikor lens has and the shape of the blades. Is there a

site that gives such information?

 

Unless I'm reading it wrong, the Nikon USA site is pitiful in terms

of providing in-depth technical information on it's products.

 

Thanks,

Steve

[faizal]

Hi Steve,

 

You can try here for a start : http://www.mir.com.my/rb/photography/companies/nikon/nikkoresources/index.htm

 

Good luck!

Ahmad Faizal Yahya

http://faizal.fotopic.net

http://www.pbase.com/afaizal

[Rick Waller]

I actually find the Nikon USA website to have a wealth of info on their lenses, but you can try here as well:

 

http://bythom.com/nikkordb.htm

[david_h._hartman]

<em>"Unless I'm reading it wrong, the Nikon USA site is

pitiful in terms of providing in-depth technical information on

it's products." --Steve Williams<br>

</em><br>

You are reading Nikon USAs website right. It a rather poor

excuse for a website. They didnt even list the weight of

camera and lenses at first. I emailed then several times

suggesting that they look at the excellent sales guides Nikon

produced in the 70s and early 80s and the book <u>Eyes

Of Nikon</u> from 1985 and create a page for each product with

that kind of quality of information and design. I chided them

several times about not listing the weight of lenses. I suspect

others did too. There are products that Nikon (inclusive) almost

does not promote. Some F5 accessories are found in the

instruction manual and in a Nikon Photographic Accessories

brochure but no where else that I can find. I dont know

where I downloaded the accessories brochure but Ill guess

Nikon UK.<br>

<br>

I just searched Nikon USA, Nikon Canada, Nikon United Kingdom and

Nikon Japan and got zero hits on "DW-31" the 6x finder

for the F5. I also searched from "DA-30" the sports

finder for the F5 and got one hit at Nikon USA with no photo, no

data, no content at all. Ive done this on other items like

SC-17 and AS-17. Sometimes they will waste your time with Flash

Presentations that are boring as hell but they just dont

have quality information.<br>

<br>

RadioShack has better information about their products and I can

down load an instruction sheet for the products Im

interested in. Nikon USA is poorly managed and clueless

concerning customer satisfaction. I dont know why.<br>

<br>

Here is one of my favorite sites. A couple others are listed

above...<br>

<br>

<a href="http://www.naturfotograf.com" target="_new"><u>Naerfoto

Bjorn Rorslett</u></a><br>

<br>

To get the information you want you just have to look here and

there. For older Nikon products Photography In Malaysia is great.

Thats one of the links above.<br>

<br>

Regards,<br>

<br>

Dave Hartman.

[vivek iyer]

For technical info, if you dig deep, the Nikon Japanese site gives even MTF diagrams for its current line up of lenses. These are also available as brochures from Nikon (if you live close to a Nikon facility, you may be able to pick one up yourself).

 

For subjective "evaluations" there are quite a few sites.

 

Vivek.

[steve williams]

Thanks for the replies. The Bjorn site doesn't give the details I'm looking for, but I'll look at the others. (I'm specifically wanting to know how many aperture blades are in each lens.)

 

David - That's been my experience, also. I've run searches on their website several times and it shows nothing. And these are searches for some of their standard products. The manager of information for the website should be fired and replaced.

 

Steve

[vivek iyer]

I have the data (brochures) of the current Nikkors (DX, 35mm and LF). I can look up the ones you are interested in. I also have most info on the Nikon technical/special lenses (from the 60s to 80s)

 

Vivek.

[h.lloyd-thomas]

Roland Vink's website includes details of the number of aperture blades for many Nikkors (including annotating lenses with a "rounded diaphram opening"):

 

http://home.aut.ac.nz/staff/rvink/nikon.html

[susan_smith5]

DH - it isn't much, but the OZ site for Nikon products has this on the DW-31 --> http://www.maxwell.com.au/photo/nikon/accessories/dw-31.html