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20 Nikon Lenses
Lenses I've looked through...
These non-technical reviews are based on my use of Nikon lenses, on the go, at different locations, in all weathers, whilst earning reproduction fees for the images made with them... not once did I attach a lens to a camera to a tripod and point it at a test-chart for evaluation!
My work has never been extreme, nor was the equipment put under any real pressure from me, so for reviews based on how many lines per millimeter a certain lens can resolve, there are other web sites catering for people seeking that type of information... the lenses reviewed on these pages simply did the job I asked of them... they all coped admirably and surprised me frequently with their ability to capture what I had seen. I have to admit that most lenses would have coped extremely well from what I asked of them - the limiting factor being my demands... so perhaps look at the equipment reviewed here rather as my favorite items from around 40 years of active photography.
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Fisheye-Nikkor 8mm f/2.8
Even with reflex viewing I couldn't see exactly what I was going to get from the camera's viewpoint flat on the ground... but I knew that wherever I was running, jumping or standing still, I would be somewhere in the shot because a 180° Fisheye-Nikkor sees all...
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Nikkor 20mm f/2.8 AF
Back in the 1960s I started to see wider and wider as my mind and printing style probed further and further towards the extremes of my vision... which was becoming that of the angle-of-view of a 20mm lens. Since then I've owned 12 different ones... of which six were Nikkors...
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Nikkor 28-70mm f/3.5-4.5 Aspheric zoom
In 1991 Nikon announced a 28-70mm zoom aimed at the amateur market which drew more than the usual discussion about a "new Nikkor" because it used a plastic element. There was a suspicion that economy had gone too far... not so!
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Bellows-Nikkor-P 105mm f/4
I thought it ironical, as I struggled to take a standard “pack shot” of the very unusual Nikon Bellows with its dedicated pre-set 105mm Nikkor lens for this article, that the specialised equipment I needed for the shot was the set-up being photographed!
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Nikkor-Reflex 500mm f/8
The first 500mm Reflex-Nikkor was announced in August 1961 only two years after the launch of the revolutionary Nikon F system. I've used the Nikon system for almost 40 years and for the latter 30 years I've rarely been without one... for those creative moments with a difference.
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Further pages being written soon for this section will describe the...
Nikkor 10.5mm DX Fisheye
Nikkor 12-24 DX wide-angle
Nikkor 15mm f/3.5 wide-angle
Nikkor 24-84 DX zoom
Nikkor 24mm f/2.8 wide-angle (very rough pre-Ai example)
Nikkor 28mm f/3.5 PC + 35mm f/2.8 PC
Nikkor 50mm f/2 pre-Ai standard
Nikkor 55mm f/2.8 Macro + 60mm Macro AF
Nikkor 70-200mm VR f/2.8
Nikkor 80-200mm f/4
Nikkor 85mm f/1.4 AIS
Nikkor 105mm & 135mm f/2 Defocus Control
Nikkor 135mm f/2.8
Nikkor 200mm Macro f/4 AF... or Nikkor 210mm (ex-John Sexton 5x7 LF lens)
Nikkor 300mm f/4 AF
All reviews have been written by Ed Buziak (me) - a self-taught photographer and monochrome printer who took the plunge into the tough professional world in 1974 at the age of 30. Even before that, on my final day at Art College in 1967 I realized, too late, that I wanted to be a photographer, not an interior designer, so bought into the Nikon system with an un-metered Nikkormat FS body and a 135mm telephoto lens. From that beginning I learned how to select an interesting image through the camera’s viewfinder, process and print film, and enter photo competitions. Winning a bag-full of Nikon bodies and Nikkor lenses was instrumental in steering him through a career change from a secure well-paid production design job with Granada TV to a life of uncertainty as a freelancer where... "You were only as good as the last job you did!" in the eyes of the next editor or art director.
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