clicker
Well-known
I am considering purchasing a Nikkor 5cm 1.4 chrome screw mount and don't seem to find many for sale. I do see other focal lengths in screw mount but this one seems rather elusive.Any thoughts on why they are hard to come across or am I looking in the wrong places.
ferider
Veteran
There were two in the classifieds in the last couple of weeks.
Why sparse ? Because they are great. Better than the pre-asph Lux in several ways.
Roland.
Why sparse ? Because they are great. Better than the pre-asph Lux in several ways.
Roland.
kermaier
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The Nikkor-S.C 5cm f/1.4 is a higher-end lens, so there won't be as many in circulation as, for example, the Nikkor-H.C 5cm f/2 (which was sold as a kit lens with a lot of Japanese Leica-copy screw-mount cameras in the 1950s).
There are a few of the Nikkor-S.C LTM lenses available right now, however:
RFF Classifieds
KEH
CameraWest
If you're patient or willing to pay top dollar for a collectible-condition example, you should be able to get your hands on one. Great lens, and I love it.
Cheers,
Ari
There are a few of the Nikkor-S.C LTM lenses available right now, however:
RFF Classifieds
KEH
CameraWest
If you're patient or willing to pay top dollar for a collectible-condition example, you should be able to get your hands on one. Great lens, and I love it.
Cheers,
Ari
kermaier
Well-known
BTW, if you wanted to get close to 'Lux Asph capability on the cheap, did you consider the CV 50/1.5 Nokton Asph?
ferider
Veteran
This one is still there ? Good price, too. http://www.rangefinderforum.com/pho...t/32541/title/leica-thread-mount-lenses/cat/2
dexdog
Veteran
I agree with ferider that the one in the classifieds is a good price on a clean copy of the lens.
filmtwit
Desperate but not serious
bowieknife
Established
if I remember correctly a screw mount 50mm 1.4 chrome Nikkor sold yesterday for 380€, about $475 or so
James24
Well-known
You could also consider an S mount Nikkor 5/1.4 with an Amedeo adapter.
Highway 61
Revisited
The Nikkor-S-C 50/1.4 is actually a lens with many drawbacks, it's optimized for close-ups where it actually delivers, but at average and infinity focusing distance it will vignette a lot even if you close the diaphragm to 5.6 and beyond - shooting slides with it drives you nuts.
Wide open it flares crazily, this makes it quite unusable at f/1.4 unless you want to shoot ghosts
.Also, many of them suffer from "golden droplets" around the rear group elements (Canada balsam getting brittle and opaque), ad this enhances the vignetting issue.
All in all this is not such a great lens, Nikon wanted to improve the original Sonnar design with it but with unconvincing results.
It's not a bad lens either, of course, but there are clearly way better choices out there.
The Nikkor-H-C 50/2 is considerably better at all apertures and all distances, and fully usable wide-open, with a similar bokeh, and no vignetting onwards from f/2.8, so...
This is not for no reason that Nikon replaced their original 50/1.4 with the so-called "Olympic" 50/1.4 back in 1964.
I know that we're discussing the LTM version here (which, by the way, should drive this thread in "LTM copies" rather than in the actual Nikon RF forum) but the optical formulas being the exact same were it for Nikon S or LTM mount...