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The 28mm has been one of my favorite focal length for a long time. It is perfect for tight place and dynamic composition.
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I bought two of these lenses at the same time, this one and an older version with a metal scalloped focusing ring, which turned out to be much sharper. I don't know if the difference was due to design changes or sample differences. Optically the two lenses are theoretically the same, and both are multi-coated, but the lens coatings appear to be slightly different. The front element of the newer lens has a green tint, whereas the older one is purple, with some greenish reflections inside.
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There is a reason to buy a manual focus lens again? Are all the Nikon AF lenses worth to be buyed (not only Nikon but every other factories as Canon etc.)? The realisation and related selling of body camera with full frame sensor opened new horizons on the use of lens that the photo factories want to not sell because they want to sell more and more new,new and ever new lenses! The camera body full frame sensor give the opportunity of use old manual focus lenses that have nothing less then the AF ones and their cost is very cheap in comparison to the AF's ones. This Nikon 28mm manual focus lens is one of the best wide angle made ever by Nikon. The quality of the glasses is excellent but over all the quality of the photo is excellent. Nikon used this lens project to realize the 28mm AF D, an other excellent lens. I bought it used for about USD 65 and I am satisfied at all. I use it not only with my Nikon D700 full frame, but also with the Nikon D90 dx and I perform the exposure with an external light meter manually: splendid, to come back and take photos using my mind and not that one of an anonimous engineer of Nikon, Canon, etc. BY this way all electronically dimensioned peoples are loosing their capability of taking original photos, as Kodak said at the beginning of 1900: you push the button, we do the remaining. Best photos to all of you Rosario SanguedolceRead full review
I've been an enthusiastic photographer for nearly half a century but gained little experience with my 35mm equipment due to processing and development costs. Now all that has changed with digital photography virtually eliminating costly errors that go undetected until the prints come back from the darkroom. I eventually treated myself to a bargain Nikon D40x body on eBay and spent some good money on digital zoom lenses trying to find the 'perfect' lens. Such an animal does not exist. Zooms are compromised by the need to be all things to all photographers. Prime lenses, on the other hand, are designed to do one job well not every job adequately. With this realisation in my mind, I did my research online to determine the prime lenses that had the greatest respect among experienced photography buffs. The Nikon Nikkor 28mm f/2.8 soon popped its bright head above the parapet as an affordable and delightfully crisp lens. t 28mm on my D40x, with an APSC conversion factor of 1.5 meant that I would see an image size equivalent to 42mm on a full frame 35mm or DSLR. At 42mm equivalent, I realised, it would stand in as a standard prime lens. It would not, of course, auto-focus or communicate with the D40x's exposure control software but, for me, that was a bonus. Having cut my teeth on the old, fully mechanical 35mm SLRs I felt reasonably confident that, simply by using the D40x in manual mode, I could master the skills that film and processing costs had stifled so long ago . I'm getting there. And having fun learning again in my 'declining' (PMSL) years. The results I am getting from the lens are stunning and a real eye-opener to what is truly possible with a good but affordable lens. It's also an investment for when I upgrade to a full-frame Nikon DSLR and see the full scope of the 28mm view. I can, cur4rently, approximate that with a good quality front-end wide-angle adapter but, of course, the extra glass between the subject and the lens will, necessarily, introduce some optical aberrations. A careful choice of front end adapter can minimise these extra aberrations and I find that I can even achieve results equivalent to a 16mm fish-eye on a full-frame. As I said before, zooms are a compromise but I find that primes allow you to choose your own compromises and if you're a budding creative artist or a dyed-in-the-wool full manual control freak that surely is the whole point.Read full review
This little lens is truly a gem. Like the 50mm F1.8, it is supremely sharp even wide open, and stopping down it just gets better, F4 and beyond is almost macro sharp. On full frame, even wide open with vignetting control turned to normal, it is very well controlled, and by F4 is completely gone. Out of focus areas are fairly smooth, its no 58mm Rokkor-X, but it isn't ugly either. Built very solidly, with fairly decent focus ring, along with distance window. Hood is highly recommended, as this lens can get some flare going on if using a filter on it, hood seems to help with contrast as well. Overall fantastic lens, was used on a D700 and D80, worked great on both.
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