Your oldest Nikkor - any photos to share?

[lex_jenkins]

Michael, photo attachments need to be in standard JPEG format and 680 pixels wide or narrower to appear inline with the forum; otherwise they'll appear as a link. We don't have access to certain types of attachments to edit them. We can only delete them.

 

Unfortunately the revised posting sequence in all forums seems a bit counter-intuitive now. More folks appear to be having problems following the steps to attach photos, even tho' the procedure appears to be clearly marked with the appropriate prompts. After posting a comment you should see prompts asking if you want to attach a file or photo. To me it seems clear, but I must admit that I'm seeing far more folks confused by this new process than with the old.

[sjmurray]

105mm f 2.5 Sonnar version pre AI (AI'd by John White)<div></div>

[02Pete]

I took this photo in the fall of 2005 with a Nikkor 85mm f/2 lens, an old Nikkor rangefinder lens in Leica thread

mount, mounted on a Leica M2 body using an LTM to bayonet adapter. I can't provide you with an exact date of

manufacture for the Nikkor, but it was made some time between the late 1940s and the mid 1950s. It still works

reasonably well given its age. The Nikkor 85mm f/2 was one of the lenses that US combat photographer David

Douglas Duncan discovered while shooting photos of the Korean War for Life magazine, helping to build Nikon's

reputation as a manufacturer of cameras and lenses. For additional info on this lens, see

http://www.dantestella.com/technical/nikoleic.html ; for a photo of one mounted on an old Canon P rangefinder

camera, see http://www.taunusreiter.de/Cameras/Canon_RF.html#NIKKOR_PC_f2_8.5cm .<div></div>

[michael_bradtke]

Lex

I have tried to re upload them as a jpg. But I keep getting a server error.

I will try it one more time

[michael_bradtke]

And when I try to upload a jpg file it gives me a server error<div></div>

[seismiccwave]

NIkkor 80 to 200 mm f4 push pull zoom. I probably picked it up in the mid 70s. This is one of two lenses that I found from

my old film days. This lens and my Nikkor 85 mm f2 prompted me to buy the D300 and D700 so I can re-live my love for

Nikon.<div></div>

[lex_jenkins]

Looks okay now, Michael. However that file size is over 300 kb, probably larger than it needs to be for web display of a JPEG of moderate dimensions. Sometimes an oversized file upload will time out during a long upload, which could be your ISP or a photo.net glitch (some intermittent problems recently with the servers), no way to tell from here.

[jiayao_zhao]

Nikkor auto 55/1.2.I'v ownd it for five years but I don't know when it was produced.<div></div>

[ian_rose]

nikon 50 1.8 e series phurchased as a kit lens with a EM this image taken from my backdoor this morning with a D40<div></div>

[laurentvuillard]

No photos but the series shown here lists most of the classics, the 105 F2;5 was really something....

[Sanford]

105 F2.5 AIS on either a D50 or D80.<div></div>

[fred mueller]

28mm f1/2.8 AS-s close focus on my D40

 

http://d6d2h4gfvy8t8.cloudfront.net/7158466-lg.jpg

[waldemar_giers___kitchener]

Micro-Nikkor 55mm f3.5 circa 1967. Great value for little $$.

<a href=" title="WG0_0158R by wgiers, on Flickr"><img

src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3038/3033714952_e1e040cec0_o.jpg" width="1046" height="700"

alt="WG0_0158R" /></a>

Nikon D200 + Nikkor 55mm f3.5 (about 41 years old) + about 120mm of extension tubes stack between camera and

the lens.

[waldemar_giers___kitchener]

I'll try again,

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3038/3033714952_e1e040cec0_o.jpg<div></div>

[Sanford]

Bottom line - you Canon guys can't do this with your old lenses!

[Brian1664876441]

Nikkor 13.5cm F3.5, wide-open on the Nikon SP<div></div>

[jay_miao1]

D100 ...<div></div>

[Lou_Meluso]

"Bottom line - you Canon guys can't do this with your old lenses!"

 

Open mouth............Insert foot.<div></div>

[eajames]

Hi again Waldemar - very beautiful shot!

[rjm photo]

Here's one from last week taken with 105mm Nikkor F2.5 P which I bought new in September 1968...and I installed a factory AI kit in 2005 (to use it on D200).

 

 

<center><img src="http://d6d2h4gfvy8t8.cloudfront.net/8237188-lg.jpg"></center>

 

<center>D200</center>

[lex_jenkins]

Yehhh... hmm... let's not bait the Canonites, Sanford. Not only *can* they do it with their old lenses on their

new cameras, they can do it with *our* lenses on their cameras.

 

Let's not make this another tired us agin' them furriners thing. It ain't even an old against new thing. It's

just a celebration of using vintage faves.

 

And in that spirit... 50/2 AI Nikkor on D2H, ISO 200, 1/80th, f/5.6.<div></div>

[ned1]

Pre-AI GN 45, wide open<div></div>

[joey1]

D2H 28mm Nikkor 2.0 AI-s

[joey1]

Oops! Here it is..<div></div>

[JDMvW]

Sanford Gerald <<Bottom line - you Canon guys can't do this with your old lenses!>>

 

Another reply to this is, NO, not without an adapter with some glass in it,

 

but we can do this extremely well with any manual Nikkor lens, non-AI and newer with an inexpensive adapter,

infinity focus, and .... TA DA... through-the-lens metering with ALL EOS models. Not to mention old Pentax lenses

and many others...

 

If you want to put old Nikkors to work, any Canon EOS does better than the bulk of digital Nikons -- especially

if like me, you have non-AI Nikkors!<div></div>