The lens uses the ED glass and the latest Vibration Reduction technology. Nikon lenses all have the name Nikkor on them. What exactly is Nikkor, and why are the lenses not just called Nikon lenses?
Nikkor is a subsidiary of the Nikon Corporation. The Nikkor brand was introduced in , and in Nikkor produced the first Nikkor lens. The Nikkor lens actually predates the Nikon camera, which was introduced in Originally, the Nikkor brand was used for higher-end optics, while the Nikon designation was used for lower-end products. Now the Nikkor name is used for all the lenses.
Nikkor also created lenses for other cameras, including the Bronica and Plaubel Makina medium-format cameras, the Leica rangefinder cameras, and the Nikonos underwater cameras. For this book, the Nikkor lenses created with the F-mount for 35mm and digital cameras will be referred to as Nikon lenses. I would like to receive exclusive offers and hear about products from Peachpit and its family of brands.
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If you have elected to receive email newsletters or promotional mailings and special offers but want to unsubscribe, simply email ask peachpit. On rare occasions it is necessary to send out a strictly service related announcement. That means that you can sometimes attach a lens that was originally intended for another sensor size. Although lenses like these are thus smaller, they are not usable or only usable to a limited degree on full-frame cameras. Fortunately within individual bayonets and for different manufacturers you can find indications of whether or not a given lens is made for large sensors or the smaller ones.
What often happens, however, is that there is no smaller variant available with the same parameters—then you really do have no other choice than to invest more money and carry a little more lens weight than is really necessary. Designations differ from manufacturer to manufacturer. The manufacturers with the most widespread lenses use these abbreviations.
The first is the designation for full-frame lenses crop factor 1 ; the rest are for smaller lenses. Some manufacturers—these last three especially—produce lenses for various systems from other brands, so here you also have pay attention to the bayonet. Stabilization is an important parameter that states whether or not a lens includes an image stabilization system.
This system lets you shoot tripod-free even with long exposure times , which is especially useful for telephoto lenses. For the rest, you have to watch the lens designation, and, in light of the fact that here again every manufacturer uses different terminology, you have to look for one of their abbreviations:. Then you have to decide whether or not stabilization is worth it despite the increased lens cost.
One very practical piece of information is the one concerning the flange at the end of the lens, used for screwing filters onto it. Lenses for smaller cameras typically use smaller filters.
Manufacturers gradually update the most commonly used lenses, and so for example once every five or ten years you can encounter a lens that has the same parameters as its predecessor, but looks different and is, in general, higher-quality. Other abbreviations are used on lenses too, but these often appear for mere marketing reasons.
In high-quality lenses, the cheapest simple focusing motor is replaced with a supersonic motor, which is faster and quieter. It is worth noting however that some compatibility issues do exist, so be sure to check manufacturer documentation before experimenting with new combinations.
DX lenses are generally smaller and cheaper than their FX equivalents making them an excellent choice for amateur and enthusiast shooters who are unable to justify the cost of more expensive FX systems. DX lenses can be mounted on FX-format bodies, the camera will automatically adjust the viewfinder and capture a cropped DX sized image. CX Lenses, also known as 1 Nikkor lenses were introduced in and are specifically designed to be used with the Nikon 1 mirrorless digital camera system.
The Nikon 1 system uses an extremely small Most popular CX lenses: 1 Nikkor A good Macro or Micro! Nikon began making microscopes in , and made their first lens specifically designed for close-up photography in Micro lenses are available in both DX and FX formats. These manual focus lenses allow the shooters to alter the angle between the focal plane and the camera sensor.
This adjustment allows compensation for the Keystone effect, which causes parallel lines in an image to converge if the camera is not perfectly level. PC lenses can also be used to increase the depth of field at wide apertures, and are extremely popular with landscape and architectural photographers.
Not to be confused with soft-focus lenses, DC lenses are in fact extremely sharp at in-focus image areas. A gold ring mounted around the end of a Nikon F-Mount lens indicates that the lens is of professional quality.
Gold Ring lenses feature an enticing mix of fast and constant apertures and complex high fidelity optical formula, using aspherical elements and special low dispersion glass. Housed in robust metal, and lightweight composite bodies, and utilizing exotic lens coatings gold ring lenses represent the pinnacle of Nikon lens technology. Gold rings can be found on lenses ranging in focal length from 10mm to mm, but expect to pay a high entry fee to the club!
The same goes for other tilt-shift style lenses from other manufacturers. Designed to be used on bodies with no built-in motor, AF-S lenses are fast, accurate, and quiet and all but the cheapest feature full-time manual focus override. This style of motor is much is considerably quieter than AF-S technology, and it also has a much smoother motion during the focus process. Autofocus lenses that pass distance information to the camera body.
Since all modern Nikkor lenses now pass this information to the camera, the designation is no longer used. Rather than using the focusing motor built-in to the body of an AF Nikon camera, which relies on a mechanical drive shaft link between the camera and lens to operate the focusing action, the AF-I type Nikkors have a coreless electro-magnetic focusing motor built in to the lens, which improves both the speed and accuracy of autofocus, significantly.
All are clearly identified by the designation shown on the descriptive plate attached to the barrel of each lens that also displays the serial number of the lens. The successor to the AF-I type Nikkor lens uses an enhanced version of the internal focusing motor, which converts ultrasonic sound waves to generate a rotational energy to drive the focusing action. This type of motor offers even greater speed and accuracy of autofocus action combined with near silent operation.
Note: Nikon's choice of the AF-S designation is somewhat confusing since the same designation is used consistently throughout Nikon literature to denote the Single-servo AF focusing mode available in all AF Nikon cameras. Initially these lenses appeared as entry level models with a specification and price point intended for the consumer market, because they offered an number of benefits including being simpler to use by less experienced photographers, lighter, easier to construct, and therefore cheaper to mass produce.
Note: Earlier Nikon camera models that lack the ability to set the aperture value from the camera body require a Nikkor lens with an aperture ring to obtain full compatibility with all the exposure modes available on the particular camera in use. Optimized for the DX format The optics used in a DX type Nikkor lens is designed to ensure that after light leaves the lens it strikes the camera's digital sensor at the optimum angle. This requires the light rays to be perpendicular, or as close to perpendicular as possible relative to the surface of the sensor.
Furthermore, since a DX type lens need only project an image circle that covers the smaller area of the DX format sensor rather than the larger area of a format film frame they can be made smaller and lighter. Join our Mailing List Go. Grays of Westminster. Online Shop.
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