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135mm f2,8 Nikkor-Q on the left, 135mm f3,5 Nikkor-Q on the right.
Very nice lenses, both. I own both. Have the Nikon Ai kit for the f2,8 lens and cut the aperture ring on the f3,5 so both mount on my D3 and girlfriends D800.
I guess I do need a Nikon Df though because I now own some lenses for which I can not find an Ai ring and that are so clean and old that I do not wish to cut them.
Lenses that fit without cutting the Ai ring, but after removing the coupling prongs are:
20mm f3,5 Nikkor-UD
2,8cm f3,5 Nikkor-H
35mm f2,8 Nikkor-S
5cm f2 Nikkor-S
Other cameras that feature the articulating indexing lever are:
Nikon FM (not FM2/FM3)
Nikon F3, F4
Some APS modified Nikon F5's
Cameras that don't care:
Plain prism or WLF Nikon F and F2
Entry level motorless DSLR's
Since none of those meter, but all of them have the spring mechanism operating the automatic aperture, the lenses can be used wide open or stopped down and all you need to play is sunny 16 or a lightmeter app.
Some medium budget dSLR's have a wide open aperture indexing thingy that get's in the way even if the lens' aperture ring was cut. D90 is an example of those. Not sure which other cameras feature that lever.
In particular on that 1000mm f11, since it has no aperture, the skirt on the lens mount has been kept high so it doesn't interact or interfere with the above mentioned levers
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