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p.1 #1 · p.1 #1 · Nikon 18 2.8D lens


Anyone have this lens? I didn't find anything through search and it was fairly mixed on Google. Just interested on what people think about it. Thanks!


May 27, 2015 at 06:19 PM
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p.1 #2 · p.1 #2 · Nikon 18 2.8D lens


Here you go:

http://www.naturfotograf.com/index2.html

Not good . . . I believe I tried a copy a few years ago and came away unimpressed, even on the 12MP D700.



May 27, 2015 at 08:30 PM
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p.1 #3 · p.1 #3 · Nikon 18 2.8D lens


I tested a couple of used ones at a local camera swap meet. I was not impressed. Lot's of CA and really weak corners.

Jim



May 27, 2015 at 10:53 PM
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p.1 #4 · p.1 #4 · Nikon 18 2.8D lens


Couldn't agree more. I met someone who was selling his and tried it out. Very soft edges on full frame. Boy did I ever WANT to like it, though.


May 27, 2015 at 10:56 PM
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p.1 #5 · p.1 #5 · Nikon 18 2.8D lens


So maybe Nikon will recognize the gap, and make a new 18mm PC-E!


Kent in SD



May 27, 2015 at 11:00 PM
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p.1 #6 · p.1 #6 · Nikon 18 2.8D lens


Two23 wrote:
So maybe Nikon will recognize the gap, and make a new 18mm PC-E!

Kent in SD


+1...f1.4 too..hehe I'd take a f-most anything PC-E 18mm



May 27, 2015 at 11:03 PM
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p.1 #7 · p.1 #7 · Nikon 18 2.8D lens


I like 18mm a lot.
THAT 18 has a poor reputation....though you can find some hobbyists on the internet forums who'll tell you it's great.
The old Nikon manual focus 18s(18/4 K/Ai, 18/3.5 Ais) are decent, especially the 3.5.
I have the current Zeiss ZF2 18/3.5; it's slightly blurry at the sides compared to the center, but very contrasty and with strong color. The Nikon 14-24 is technically a better lens at 18mm.



May 28, 2015 at 12:28 AM
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p.1 #8 · p.1 #8 · Nikon 18 2.8D lens


Dang, was hoping this would perform better. Oh well. Thanks everyone for the insight.


May 28, 2015 at 10:23 AM
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p.1 #9 · p.1 #9 · Nikon 18 2.8D lens


It is not as horrible as many say, or at least, mine is not. (I have used it on a D700.) Just avoid shooting in low-light with stars, and avoid architecture, in any light! (Coma is, shall we say, quite interesting, and complex mustache distortion is quite evident.) I very nearly traded mine when I bought my 14-24/2.8G, but I decided to keep it, for a reason I cannot explain. Perhaps it is the build quality? This lens looks like it could be used to break a hijacker's teeth. (Hijacker = robber, in local cop-speak.)

Very few of these still have their hoods, perhaps because the Nikon hood had a bad habit of not staying in place very well. I bought a Fotodiox hood, and it would not stay in place, either. I tend to shoot after sundown, anyway, so have simply used a 77mm-to-82mm step-up ring as a thread protector.

I plan to shoot more with mine during my vacation this month, to help determine whether I should keep it.

Andy Feltham, a UK fine art photographer, used a Nikkor 18/2.8D for a short while, on a Df, and said the distortion can be corrected using the lens profile for the Nikkor 20/2.8D. He has, however, since switched to the 20/1.8G, if I recall correctly, which would be quite understandable.



Jun 01, 2015 at 09:32 AM





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