Nikon Nikkor 28mm f/2 Ai-S

Great lens The 28mm has been one of my favorite focal length for a long time. It is perfect for tight place and dynamic composition.

Older version better than this sample 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.

To buy again the old manual focus lenses 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