Photos from W-Nikkor 2.8cm f/3.5

[VinceC]

Wes,
I love your vertical shot on the country road.

 

[wes loder]

More 28mm Nikkors pictures

More 28mm Nikkors pictures

Thank you, Vince. Here's a B&W. I have more, but I am discovering that most of my file sizes are too large upload. Need to get hold of a copy of photoshop or equivalent and do some downsizing. I am also discovering that I have kept less track of data concerning what lens I was usingthan I thought. Oh, well. WES

 

[VinceC]

>> I am also discovering that I have kept less track of data concerning what lens I was using than I thought<<

I have the same trouble. I have been known to shoot with 8 to 10 different lenses on a single roll of film (hey, these are Inter-Changeable Lens rangefinders, after all). When I look at the pictures, some of them I can recognize right away, others I have to really think hard about and make an educated guess.

 

[NIKON KIU]

>> I am also discovering that I have kept less track of data concerning what lens I was using than I thought<<

I have the same trouble. I have been known to shoot with 8 to 10 different lenses on a single roll of film (hey, these are Inter-Changeble Lens rangefinders, after all). When I look at the pictures, some of them I can recognize right away, others I have to really think hard about and make an educated guess.

Are you kidding?
I never know which is which...but I know its a Nikon🙂

Kiu

 

[migtex]

Hi,
maybe be this is not the right place to post , but a free soft for personal use is available at www.faststone.org - fsviewer. I don't use anything else besides NX for raw editing.

 

[VinceC]

For that matter, Microsoft Office 2003 and later comes with a workable basic photo editor, suitable for cropping, resizing and basic contast control.

 

[VinceC]

I love the fact that PhotoShop allows me to use black-and-white style darkroom techniques with color images. Burning, dodging, changing contrast.

 

[VinceC]

I never used Polycontrast. Much preferred graded paper. When making prints, Ilford Grade 4 was like my photographic chocolate ...

 

[ZivcoPhoto]

My favorite was Agfa Brovira #3.

 

[raid]

While I don't own a Nikkor wide angle lens, I really like the tiny Canon 35mm/2.8 lens. It is overall an excellent lens at a great price. I sold mine just to quickly buy another one since I started to miss having the lens for photography. I also love my Canon 28mm/3.5. While 28mm lenses seem to be less used or mentioned here, I find that they actually could be more useful than wider lenses. The 28mm perspective can be a very nice one, with very little distortion when compared to the 24mm or 21mm lenses.

Raid

 

[VinceC]

>>My favorite was Agfa Brovira #3.<<

Afga Brovira was wonderful stuff. I learned to print on it, and the blacks never seemed the same on other papers.

 

[wes loder]

Some more pictures with 2.8cm Nikkor

Some more pictures with 2.8cm Nikkor

All I had t odo is get to work where I have photoshop. So here are three pictures I was thinking of. More to follow. WES LODER

 

[wes loder]

More pictures taken with 28mm Nikkor in RF mount.

More pictures taken with 28mm Nikkor in RF mount.

Here are two more and what I think we are talking about. 😉 WES

 

[VinceC]

>>Here are two more and what I think we are talking about.<<

Thanks for more great shots, Wes. That's definitely what we're talking about!

 

[jonmanjiro]

The little W-Nikkor 2.8cm f3.5 is one of my favourites as well. Perfect on an SP with the internal 28mm finder.

 

[Leon.L]

Jon, compare W-Nikkor 2.8cm with CV SC-Skopar 28/3.5, which one do you like better ?
Thanks.

Leon

 

[David Murphy]

I own one of these in chrome, but I've not tried it yet (perhaps this weekend??). I noticed that some of the example shots shown above have soft corners and evidence of mild vignetting. None of which is a big deal of course, after all this lens was pretty cutting edge for its time optically. The center sharpness and contrast look pretty good. I've used the LTM version of this lens and it's similar in performance. The LTM version has about the best build-quality of any lens I've seen, ever (including Leica lenses).

 

[jonmanjiro]

Jon, compare W-Nikkor 2.8cm with CV SC-Skopar 28/3.5, which one do you like better ?
Thanks.

Leon

They're both great lenses, and worth keeping both for their different look (lower contrast and vignetting vs. high contrast and super sharp)! I'd hate to sell either, but if I had to sell one I think the Nikkor would stay and the CV would go.

 

[Leon.L]

Thanks a lot, Jon.
It's great for having both of them !
After reading this thread, I bought the CV 28/3.5. 🙂
but I got no chance for testing it. It has been rainning for over two weeks here... orz
Thanks for you reply again !

Leon

 

[Mister E]

I've never been dissatisfied with the sharpness from the 2.8cm f/3.5.