Nikkor "S" 35mm f 2.8

[Doc Sharptail]

A few test shots with this recent acquisition.



Wide open at f2.8 here, and about 2 feet from the image plane.
Some wind induced motion blur here even at 1/250 sec.



Center crop of image above.
Some slight purple fringing here, but much better than I was expecting from the single coated glass.



Icing over Sturgeon Creek.
At f5.6 and nearly to the infinity stop.
Apart from some slight filterless and hoodless vignetting, not much wrong with this banged up old campaigner. The 35mm focal length is fairly new to me. This is my first prime of this length, and I am liking it a lot.
It tends to flare quite a bit towards direct sunlight.

-D.S.

[blotafton]

Sweet bokeh. Those early 35mm retro focus lenses always comes with some character.

[stevemark]

[Doc Sharptail]

I am fairly certain it's a late 2nd optical computation, with '66-'67 manufacture.
I had some brief discussion with Roland V. over some of the non-optical mechanics and markings of this one, and it appears to be a late lens in it's series.
I'm very comfortable with the bokeh this lens provides~ the gently muted back-grounds have been long my preference.
I have a "Q" 135mm f 3.5 that has similar wide-open performance.
It is not a perfect lens- curvature is actually quite evident in the center of the ice and water image.
The most surprising thing about this character lens is the way it handles reflections.
I had been expecting much worse, to be honest.
I think this one is a keeper.

-D.S.

[gaeger]

That lens is a favorite. It was one of my first lenses for my F2 back in the late '70s, and it finally bit the dust perhaps 10 years ago after more than 30 years of hard use. So I bought another one! The first image was taken in 1982 during a motorcycle trip from Anchorage, Alaska to Key West, Florida. We stopped in North Carolina to see a friend who took us to a tobacco grading barn -- I found several rolls of film from that trip in a box this summer and finally had them developed. The second image is of my mother a few months before her death this summer. It was taken with my second copy of this lens on a Nikon D5500. I think it's a fantastic lens on film or digital.

[Doc Sharptail]

That last image is something else Gaeger.
Thanks for sharing.


The old early F type aperture ring actually slips under the D-810's aperture tab.
Until I can fabricate and mount a tab on the ring to engage the lever on the camera, I'll be putting it up for a while.
I had the D-810 doing stop-down metering with it briefly, and then it quit.
Could be rapid temperature change causing the camera tab to snag up on the ring- I'm not sure.
At any rate, it's a lens that I am quite enamored with.

-D.S.

[The_WB]

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Took my oldest 35MM lens out one snowy and gloomy day here in Las Vegas, NV (a rare thing) and played with it just for fun in my backyard. Attached to my Canon T5, I was quite pleased with the results from a lens that was made in late 1968, sitting in my old camera bag since the late 90's and performs as well the first time out in over 20 years.

A testament as to how well these lenses were made and continue to perform even with advanced age.

[ts1000]

I have this lens too. I am finding that it is better for 'in-person' portraits than for landscapes.
As for some reason I cannot get to render sharp details when focused to infinity.

[Doc Sharptail]

[cooltouch]

I have an old pre-AI 35mm f/2 that I've owned for over 30 years. I'm a bit ashamed to admit that it has spent most of its time with me either in a camera bag or in my photo cabinet at home. I can't recall the last time I used it. This thread prompts me to pull it out and play around with it some now.

[Doc Sharptail]

[ts1000]

[Doc Sharptail]

Bit of a landscape here.
I finally figured out a way to A/I convert this one.



Other than a slight crop and re-size, no manipulation.
F5.6 at ISO 125 and still not quite to the hard infinity stop, but close.





A couple of increasingly tighter crops.

-D.S.