Also before opening up any lens, always look for other people who have done so in Youtube and the internet. Reading these primers should lessen the chance of ruining your lens if you are a beginner. I highly suggest that you read these primers before you begin ( for beginners): Also read regarding the tools that you will need in order to fix your Nikkors. If this is the first attempt at opening a lens then I suggest that you read my previous posts regarding screws & drivers, grease and other things. This is ONLY for the AF version, the AF-D version is similar but the electronics aren’t the same! You will have to be aware about which version your lens is! This is the earlier AF! Before We Begin:
Let’s begin with the teardown and clean away that disgusting fungi! IMPORTANT: Making one is pointless and it goes against the philosophy of our blog, which is to bring obscure information to the general masses.
I will not write a lot of things about this lens because the internet is already full of great reviews and sample pictures from this lens. This is what you will want for personal use! I also find that it’s sharper than the later version wide-open. These were “Made in Japan” and the quality shows.
It is almost indistinguishable from the manual focus version when it comes to how long the focus throw is. The lens is also better-built overall and the helicoid has a longer focus throw. Notice that it has a proper distance scale window and a better DOF scale. They are also very easily sold soon after as they usually lust for a faster f/1.4 lens so these were very plentiful back then and maybe even to this day. Many photographers started with one, built their portfolio with one and made a lot of money using one. The AF-Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 is the original “plastic fantastic” lens for Nikon users back in the days. I will show you what’s inside this thing so you will know how and why Nikon kept its cost down. The lens is “Made in China” and it lowered the production cost even more. Today, we will talk about a lens that almost every Nikon photographer owned because it was cheap and it exceeded expectations, the AF-Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 lens! This lens was a big hit for Nikon because of its great price/performance ratio. Today, I’m going to introduce to you a cheap and very good Nikkor that many people started out with and many pros used these,too. In fact, some cheap things are just as good or even better than the more expensive things just like Stolichnaya when you compare it to the top-shelf vodkas.
There are many things that we can get for cheap and being cheap doesn’t always have to be bad. I know that there are a couple of cheap eats there and I thought it would also be good for the family to see the other cheap deals at the vicinity.
Hello, everybody! How are you today? I just took the family out to a Korean restaurant.