Old Nikon manual lenses

[+evenstar]

Found these two nikon manual lens among my other old manual lenses...

[+evenstar]

Can someone ID this model?

[whkoh]

Looks like an F2.

http://www.nikon.co.jp/main/eng/port...ies/f2_p_i.jpg

[+evenstar]

Originally Posted by whkoh Looks like an F2. http://www.nikon.co.jp/main/eng/port...ies/f2_p_i.jpg

Interesting......

[+evenstar]

Anyone, can anyone help gauge how old these lenses are?? (From the serial #)

[limmatthias]

Woot i thk the old one which i currently have is erm... Pentax.. K1000...
looks quite squarishly similar haha..

[hongsien]

This is an F2 Photomic from the seventies, it has the pre-Ai prongs: underneath the head there is a pin that moves left and right, and serves to calibrate as well as to adjust the metering according to the aperture you select on the lens (halfmoon chrome metal above aperture ring has to slip into the pin while les is set at 5.6, and you need to move the aperture from 5.6 to the largest opening once after putting the lens).


There were 6 prism heads:
F2 eyelevel: glass prism only, no metering
F2 Photomic: non-Ai meterhead, Cds cells (slow), needle
F2S Photomic: non-Ai meterhead, CdS cells with LED's
F2SB Photomic: non-Ai meterhead, Selenium (or silicium SPD's I forgot) cells (LED's), fast metering
F2 A: Ai meterhead CdS cells, needle
F2AS: Ai meterhead, Selenium or Silicium SPD's (I forgot), LED's, fast

The body remained basically the same throughout the production, with some small changes externally and internally.........

Apart from the normal F2 body there were also special F2's made: F2 titan (three versions), F2H (Highspeed with pellicle mirror, 10 fr/sec) and titanium body and prism, F2 Pin Register cameras (backs not made by Nikon).

Very tough camera, and I am still using several of these as my daily camera (plus the FE's)

The 35mm/2.8 is a non-Ai lens (don't put this lens on the newer cameras! It may damage the camera)
The zoomlens is a newer Ai-S lens

Hong Sien

[+evenstar]

Originally Posted by hongsien This is an F2 Photomic from the seventies, it has the pre-Ai prongs: underneath the head there is a pin that moves left and right, and serves to calibrate as well as to adjust the metering according to the aperture you select on the lens (halfmoon chrome metal above aperture ring has to slip into the pin while les is set at 5.6, and you need to move the aperture from 5.6 to the largest opening once after putting the lens). There were 6 prism heads: F2 eyelevel: glass prism only, no metering F2 Photomic: non-Ai meterhead, Cds cells (slow), needle F2S Photomic: non-Ai meterhead, CdS cells with LED's F2SB Photomic: non-Ai meterhead, Selenium (or silicium SPD's I forgot) cells (LED's), fast metering F2 A: Ai meterhead CdS cells, needle F2AS: Ai meterhead, Selenium or Silicium SPD's (I forgot), LED's, fast The body remained basically the same throughout the production, with some small changes externally and internally......... Apart from the normal F2 body there were also special F2's made: F2 titan (three versions), F2H (Highspeed with pellicle mirror, 10 fr/sec) and titanium body and prism, F2 Pin Register cameras (backs not made by Nikon). Very tough camera, and I am still using several of these as my daily camera (plus the FE's) The 35mm/2.8 is a non-Ai lens (don't put this lens on the newer cameras! It may damage the camera) The zoomlens is a newer Ai-S lens Hong Sien

Oh...but the 35mm has it's f22 mark in orange..was told by a friend tat this means it's an AI-S lens..

[KNIGHT ONG]

Originally Posted by +evenstar Anyone, can anyone help gauge how old these lenses are?? (From the serial #)

Likely to be in the mid-80' ....

http://www.photosynthesis.co.nz/nikon/serialno.html

[hongsien]

Originally Posted by +evenstar Oh...but the 35mm has it's f22 mark in orange..was told by a friend tat this means it's an AI-S lens..

The 35mm smallest aperture is brown.......and also from the 'rabbit' ears you can tell it is the older non-Ai, the Ai ears have holes in them........but sometimes they may have been exchanged.....although not in this case. Best to check is the aperture ring itself: the 35mm lens has no short piece of metal sticking outwardly (like the zoomlens), this is to click onto the Ai metering 'prong' on the F2A/AS camera-body (in the FE and thelikes, the ring around the lensmount)

Camera could be from the late seventies or early eighties.........

[hongsien]

Anyway, don't worry about compatibility problems: your F2 photomic can take ALL nikon lenses up to the current lenses, as long as they have an aperture ring (so not the 'G' lenses)..........doesn't matter whether they be non-Ai, Ai, Ai-S, AF-s\i, etcetera..........


HS

[Cactus jACK]

Originally Posted by hongsien Anyway, don't worry about compatibility problems: your F2 photomic can take ALL nikon lenses up to the current lenses, as long as they have an aperture ring (so not the 'G' lenses)..........doesn't matter whether they be non-Ai, Ai, Ai-S, AF-s\i, etcetera.......... HS

agree with hongsien, the 35f2.8 looks like a non-AI lense (it doesn't have the aperature index ring), don't try this lense on the newer f-mount bodies as it may damage the camera.

just a point of clarification, i think that you would still be able to mount G lenses on and use the camera... but it's just that you would not be able to control the aperature. i think that it would be used at the max aperature for the zoom.