Nikkor-S 50/1.4 Millennium Serial Number Registry

50mm f1.4

50mm f1.4

VinceC said:
>>Maybe an oddball contract lens. ???<<

Is it Nikon S-mount? Black or chrome? Just curious.
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The lens is Nikon S mount (internal) and what makes it even more interesting is that it is chrome! All reports handed to me from my Nikon sources say that it should be black going by the serial number , there is much confusion over the 46mm thread.
 
1948nikon said:
The lens is Nikon S mount (internal) and what makes it even more interesting is that it is chrome! All reports handed to me from my Nikon sources say that it should be black going by the serial number , there is much confusion over the 46mm thread.
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If you post a picture or email me one, I'll get to the bottom of this!
I got access to Mr. Nikon ;) :D

Kiu

PS, I have 208838
 
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> Can anyone throw some light on this lens Nikkor-s 50mm f1.4 46mm filter
> thread SERIAL NUMBER 444063 . The serial number does not seem to fit any
> new or old series plus its 46mm and not 43mm filter thread

Serial number is in the Nikon F 50mm F1.4 range. I wonder if this was a custom job, moving the optics from a Nikon F 50mm lens to an Internal Mount. Nikon SP-X Prototype lens???

Looking at the optics block of the Nikkor-H 50mm F2, I wonder if it would fit into a helios-103 internal mount...
 
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Unusual Lens

Unusual Lens

NIKON KIU said:
If you post a picture or email me one, I'll get to the bottom of this!
I got access to Mr. Nikon ;) :D

Kiu

PS, I have 208838
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Still on vacation ,I will post some pictures of the lens on my return.
Many thanks to all.
 
OK,
while we wait in agony, I thought we should get back to subject!
Here is one I use to own, bought it from a fellow RFF'er(where is Dan?), and sold it to another RFF'er in Korea:
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What do you think Jon?
204141 is got two 4's in it!!

Kiu
 
jsuominen said:
What so special with 4's?
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It's just a Chinese (and to a lesser extent Japanese) lucky number thing ;) In Chinese, the number "4" is pronounced the same way as "death" (the intonation is different) so its considered unlucky when there is a "4" in a number, especially so when its at the end of the number. The flipside is the number "8" which has the same pronounciation as "prosper". When you get a few 8's in a row .... WOW :cool: But of course, if you're not Chinese, it doesn't matter :)

NIKON KIU said:
What do you think Jon?
204141 is got two 4's in it!!
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You think that's bad .... a vintage SP at the local camera store is 6214444 :eek::eek::eek:
 
jonmanjiro said:
The list so far is ....



Still no 200*** lenses?
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You're being awfully impatient!


We haven't seen any early body numbers yet, have we?

I believe there are lenses with 200 prefix,we shall see.

Kiu
 
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NIKON KIU said:
You're being awfully impatience!

We haven't seen any early body numbers yet, have we?

I believe there are lenses with 200 prefix,we shall see.

Kiu
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S3 2000 numbers go as high as 213***, but there's only 8,000 of them. Nikon trashed most of the early top plates!

Maybe we should start an S3 2000 body s/n registry?! :D
 
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;) I'll kick things off:

S3 2000 (black): 302151
35/1.8: 2117

(probl. need a new thread)
 
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Nevermind. ;)

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The list so far is ....

200...

201287
201453

202585
202761

203045
203185
203219
203332
203565
203714
203750

204141
204573
204624

205004
205040
205971

206532

207412

208290
208838

209237

210540
210543
210893
210907

211361

Still no 200*** lenses?
 
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