any other 20mm f4 lovers out there??

[roger_michel]

as great as this relative rarity is on a film SLR, it is even better

suited to d2h/x. you only use the sharpest portion of the frame, all

vesitiges of pincusion are gone, and the f4 speed is even less of

problem in a "floating" ISO camera.

 

still one of my favorites after all these years. anybody else

deployed theirs on a digital??

[frank_skomial]

Yes.

 

I sold the kit lens and purchased 20/2.8 and 28-200 G, ED lens.

Use them on D70. Great wide angle lens.

[vivek iyer]

I use the 20/3.5 AIS which is alright on my D70. A bit too much distortion though. The 20mm f/3.5 (72mm filter) appears better. Have no idea about the 20/4 or the 20/2.8.

 

BTW the 28/3.5 (picked as a bargain for 20 Euros), is simply stunning on digital. Exceptionally sharp.

[john_morris4]

Hey, Roger. I really like my 21mm f/4 LTM lens, but I guess it's not quite the same. Maybe if I put it on an Epson RD-1, though....

[gib]

I have the 20mm f4 AI converted and use it on Nikon film bodies. It helped me with a second prize in a photo contest a few years ago. Very compact lens, very good quality, or so it seems to me. I cant afford the expensive dslrs from Nikon that can meter with AI lenses. I wish Nikon would put this capability in a lower priced dslr. The fact that one can use old Pentax screwmount lenses on the Pentax dslr models is a strong attraction. I keep leaning in that direction. And in that focal length I have a Carl Zeiss Jena Flektogon 20mm f2.8 M42 lens that might work pretty well on a Pentax dslr.

[vivek iyer]

Bill, The shame of it is that every DSLR out there (Sigma, Pentax, Koni-Minolta, Olympus, Canon...) can meter with Nikon lenses mounted through an appropriate adaptor.

 

ONLY Nikon sells crippled cameras that will not meter with its own line of lenses.

[dennis lee]

Actually, the 20 f4 that I have drives me a bit crazy, a love hate kinda thing.

 

I love the size, it can be stacked almost anywhere in the camera bag, it often

rides under another lens in my small Domke, but I can't focus it, it's just too

dark and wide.

 

I did an architecture job with it a couple months ago and the results where

great, but all where stopped down to f8-16. When I would shoot with it wide

open, especially doing work rather close and tight, with people, I would often

miss the focus by several feet, sometimes not such a big deal but often I

would lose the shot because of it. And I was shooting with an F3P and F3HP

which both have great finders!

 

It seems like the lens has been deteriorating over the years, maybe it's my

eyes! Maybe it's from getting bashed about in the bottom of that bag for all

these years.

 

When it's on, it's great though, and I look forward to trying in on my D2H when

I get home.

 

The other thing that drove me crazy was the lens shade, it just would not stay

on unless you had a filter on the camera, and whenever I had a filter on, the

lens would vignette. I never used the hood because of that, it would pull off

everytime I pulled the lens out of the bag if I wasn't playing 'operation' with it.

So, it's the only lens that ever got a lens cap with any regularity.

 

I do still own it though, and it comes along on every job. I always wanted that

20 2.8 AI that followed it. Oh, well.

[arraga]

<p>I love mine. Until the 105/2.5, the best lens I've mounted on my F3.

 

<p><a href=http://www.photo.net/photo/3531937>Very, very good to punctuate drama</a>

 

<p><a href=http://www.photo.net/photo/3615832>or for a cenital perspective.</a>