All Nikon Lens Technology Explained by Ken Rockwell
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Finally Ken Rockwell speaks (I just stumbled across his channel). Im very excited (seriuosly). Ken I've been referring to your Nikon lems web pages for years. You've helped me so much. Thanks !!!!!
THANKS Rich!
I second that. Over the years your website was invaluable for me in choosing lenses and not to forget your excellent manual of the D90. I am very glad you have come to UA-cam Ken!
Thirded. A decade later, I'm still rocking the D3100 with 35mm F/1.8 I got based off of Ken's recommended cameras. This man could've monopolized UA-cam's camera gear segment had he started earlier. Still, better later than never.
@@sofuckingannoying He still could, he'd just have to make the right kind of videos. But I doubt he has any aspirations for that.
And what a listenable explanation, too!
Very good! So nice to put a voice with Ken Rockwell in the written world. Thanks you so much for the well done history lesson. It's like I'm in college again and listening to a lecture by a tenured professor. Thanks for all you've done for my photography education....Ted in Sebastian, Fl
Thanks Ted!
I was about to say the same :) I've read KenRockwell.com for more than a decade and finally I can hear you, Ken!
Have a listen to the guy on the channel " lock picking lawyer " , sounds similar. Also, I know of Ken Rockwell by finding his Mercedes SL500 web site after I got my SL. Great SL revue the way. .
You convinced me to buy my first Nikon DSLR, the D40, many years ago. Thanks for all your excellent coverage of photography products, you're the best!
So glad you are on UA-cam.
It's better than reading 😂
Paul W thank you! So glad all you folks enjoy this. This is something that shows well on video so you can see everything.
Yessss
I love, love, love this video!! Thank you so much!!! I really enjoyed it!!! Loving your channel!!
Thanks! Be sure to share it.
As a 20+ year Canon user who now shoots Fuji X professionally, I recently picked up an old Nikon DSLR for the age of the mount. This is exactly the video I needed!
Adam Allen thank you! I could do one for Canon, but as you hear Canon got it all right back in 1987 pretty much eliminating the need for such a video.
26 minutes flew by! An excellent journey through the lenses of Nikon, thanks.
Thanks for watching!
Good job, Ken. Although I know 99% of this stuff, I would never have attempted to do this in 25 minutes! You did what could have taken two hours and got it well edited into this concise package! (One of your 13mm buddies).
Thank you!!!!!
I’ll keep rocking my D750 with my collection of D lenses. Pics look as great as ever. I don’t even mind whipping out my D80 as a smaller, lighter rig. Your earlier instructions for Nikon cameras help me speed through initial set ups - thanks. I loved, loved the days of slide film, rocking my F5 with my beloved Velvia and some Sensia or print film in my smaller N70. Also, had my Dad’s Leica in tow, usually with Black-and-White film. I have such wonderful memories of trips, scenic hikes, gardens and friends and family. Nowadays, it’s the D750, Fuji x100t (bought used for $300) and my iPhone. It took me a while to accept the iPhone as a camera, but I must admit, it’s very handy. I haven’t had to buy a bunch of new lenses and I’m already proficient with the SLR system. Tech will always advance and I already dropped silly money on photography - my beloved F5, for example, not to mention the tons of film and processing. But, it has been satisfying, photo journaling and seeing the world through the lens. Such a wonderful memory aid to recall moments in our lives.
Thanks!
Hi Ken! After all these years of reading your pages. I'm pleasantly surprised to finally hear your voice! keep up the good work. Greetings from the Netherlands. Sjors
Thank you!
Hi Ken, I've been following your review site for 7 or 8 years now, great to see you on UA-cam. I've been a Nikon fan and professional user for the past 35 years. Your reviews are second to none. Thanks for posting😀
Thank YOU for finding it so helpful. Best for the new year!
You touched briefly upon the filter size problem in the video. I still have my stack of 52mm filters that fit the fixed focal length Nikkors of the sixties.
You did a great job covering the physical compatibility subject. Eventually we need a video on the evolution of the optical designs, if someone wants to step up to the plate.
Thanks!
Loved this! Have been reading your website for so many years ! It was a delight to find you here! Amazing video thank you!
Thank you!!!!
Fantastic video! You won me over from being your reader starting in the very early days of your website (with that soft yellow background and one-page lens reviews) to watching UA-cam again! Thanks and keep up this great work!
Danke!
Very interesting. The G lenses don't work with all autofocus camera, a big issue might want to focus a video on this impact...as they are relatively new in Nikon's digital line...great to hear about the z-line improvements. BUT did Nikon throw our investment to the wind, meaning do AF-S D,G,E lenses work well with Nikon's converter ring?
The FTZ? Only works with AF-S lenses. Doesn’t give AF with AF or AF•D or manual lenses, and doesn’t couple to manual lenses either. Just go Canon for Mirrorless. www.kenrockwell.com/canon/eos-r/index.htm
As a young amateur photographer who uses Nikon, this is the best video I have seen. I have been through your website a lot while I was hunting for new DSLR and even now when I need to know about the lenses. You are legend!
Thank you Abishek!!!!
way above modern bloggers, thank you!
THANK YOU!!!!!
Very interesting! Well done! I prefer manual focus lens when not in a rush, out and about in the nature. The focusing experience itself is far more pleasing and the film lenses feel lovely. Great stuff!
Yes, and it's easier and faster to turn one ring a little rather than set seventeen autofocus menus! Thanks!
I have learned a great deal from Ken Rockwell and I am glad to fund him
Thank you!!!!!!
Awesome, please keep stuff like this coming!
donteatsomtam working on it! I think I have a great idea I may just go work on now.
Wow Ken. This was incredible. Thank for making it! Sorry I’m 3 years late hah. Great meeting you at the a9iii launch
Ditto! Thanks for checking it out. See ya!
What a fantastic upload. I really enjoy your highly knowledgeable and to the point website as well. Keep it up!
Thanks Mike!!!
I will buy a Z body only when they make an inexpensive alternative to 105/2DC. Or they make a FTZ mount with a screw-driver :D
Exactly. Time to upgrade out of Nikon if you want mirrorless. www.kenrockwell.com/tech/comparisons/nikon-vs-canon-vs-sony-full-frame.htm Thanks!
Just subscribed, that Nikkor fisheye lens is a gem! Best Nikon website in the world and now UA-cam channel. Thank you Ken.
Thank YOU!!!!
Actually, that old Fisheye-Nikkor, the 8mm f/8 is the pig in the Nikkor fisheye world. It was soon surpassed by the 7.5mm f/5.6 and was a nice improvement. I know Ken and would like to thank him for saving me the trouble of having to talk people through the complexities of the Nikon lens mount world, particularly with the advent of the Nikon F. And yes, I’m old enough in the Nikon world to have bought a Nikon F when you could buy one new! I personally have about 50 Nikkor lenses 7.5mm to the 1000mmm, including the incredible 13mm f/5.6 AIS ultra wide. Keep in mind another thing that perhaps Ken will touch upon some day-the glass. Two basic things to consider. Coatings, and the glass types. Over the decades Nikon has improved their coatings with multi-coatings, to nano. When buying a used Nikkor, try to find the latest coatings that you can . The simplest way to tell it by color. If it reflects a blueish color, it’s vey old and original. The better multi-coatings reflect more of a greenish color. That happened in the early 1980s, generally. Optically, it all comes down to the glass, right? I highly recommend that you only buy glass known as ED (Extra-Dispersal) for anything 100mm and longer. Until they used ED glass (like the APO glass within Leica) you have less sharpness at the focusing plane. Each color in the spectrum would focus a little farther or closer in relative to the prime focusing plane and you got softness in your focus. So, stick to ED glass, for the longer longest. They have even begun to adopt it for the shorter focal lengths. Just a few tips along with what Ken is putting o. -Dan
Superb presentation, Ken ! Congrats x10000000 !
Thank you!!!!
Damn, I didn’t know you had a UA-cam channel! 🤯🤗🤗🤗
Only had good stuff up a few weeks. Thanks!
Well covered Ken, I liked this. Me 70 year old Nikonion, like review of my old lessons.
Thanks! Somebody in the know needs to document before it's forgotten.
Welcome to UA-cam. You've been the point of reference for most of us here for many years :)
Thanks Matt!
Great history lesson I subscribed immediately.
Thanks!
Nice trip down memory lane. I've been a long time Nikon shooter but only recently freed myself from the "tyranny of auto focus". There are a lot of unappreciated AI-s lenses out there with their old school style.
Thanks!
Great video, I also love Nikon because they did not change the mount like crazy, and also the lens quality.
Perfect! Thanks!
BTW, I inherited my grandfather's Series E 50mm f/1.8 after he passed away, and absolutely treasure it. Even on a D850, the dang thing is sharp as a tack throughout most of the image frame, focusing is super smooth, and it's almost pancake-small.
I'm really, really disappointed that Nikon's FTZ adapter didn't include an aperture position sensor, though. I thought that would be a given... Maybe they'll have a new FTZ adapter with added AI and pre-AI functionality...
You got it! Thanks!
Ken, Nikon does is in fact make a f1.4E lens, the new Nikon 105mm f1.4E which I own and love. Wish it was made in Japan, but honestly it's extremely well made so I give Nikon a pass!
Right you are, thanks!
I own this lens as well. Love it.
@@KenRockwellTV LOL thanks Ken and I actually just remembered they make two f1.4E lenses, because I now remembered the 28mm f1.4E lens.
Brilliant Ken how about a film on the best old lenses for DX FX and Z mounts ?
Coming...... Thanks!
Sorry your wrong. But The Nikon ( I ) was the first Rangefinder that was release on March of 1948 as Nikon Engineers got a Contax II as they study it's design, in which they develop the Nikon I. As 20 cameras were produce in 1947 to test the waters to photographers in Japan,and also to the press journal Corp during the occupation when before the Korean War as Nikon, and Canon were producing RF models, until a know photographer ( David D Duncan ) was visiting a camera store in Tokyo as he was introduce to Nikkor Glass, and took it to Korea as it was mounted on his Leica since the M model would not be introduce by 1954. Then came the Nikon M by August of 1949. Also I have been to the Nikon Camera Museum in Tokyo at next to the JR Shinagawa station in which there on display is the Nikon RF series with the Nikon I. In which that I ask the guides there that she told me that the Nikon Engineers did obtain a Contax RF model.
Also YOU CAN NOT PLACE ZEISS Contax Lenses on a Nikon RF the Infinty point is a hair OFF, especially the 35mm 2.8 Zeiss lens. As the Nikkor lens will work on the Contax but not the Contax IIA from Stuttgart, as Nikon was studying the Contax from Dresden at the Carl Zeiss Jena works, as the mount was slightly redesign as they were still making the Contax II, and Contax III but the Russians raided the plant and took Everything back to Kiev in which they developed the Kiev models out of Zeiss Parts including lenses in which I have a few Kiev models, and gone to Japan and I bought the 5cm F2.0 Nikkor, and the focusing is at the Infinity mark. Also which model was use to make the Nikon F? It was not SP, it was the S4. Due to the S4 was not an Export model, and SLR's were coming into the scenes so Nikon recycle the S4 to a SLR. What they did is STRETCH the body for the Mirror box. And last Rockwell, the Breech Lock system WAS not a Canon, again copying an Idea, the BL system was develop in 1953 by a company in Germany by the KW and the camera was the Praktina which I have one as this that I have was Germany's Version on the NIKON F system as the Nikon F was develop in 1959 my Praktina with 3 Zeiss lenses, AND interchangeable finders, screens, a hand crank film advance lever, and a attach accessory of a spring motor like the early Leica III series... This was four years later when the Nikon F was introduce in 1959 Beat that and P does not mean PRO it means PROGRAM.... Oh in closing I suggest that you should take your family to Japan, and see in what your missing, and since you have insulted them, in reading your review of the Nikon S3 in which that I made the trip to Japan 12 times, and love it.. As I do not hold a grudge for 75 years to them.... And did you know that Nikon was going to make a Fifth Rangefinder with a Meter TL it was going to be called the S5 but SLR models of every camera company switch over to SLR design so they did not make the S5, Nikon, Canon, Konica, Minolta, Pentax, Ricoh, Fuji (Fujica) Olympus, Kowa, Miranda, Mamiya/Sekor, and Yashica. So these names are gone and all their is Nikon, Canon, Sony aka Minolta, Olympus, and Ricoh, and Fuji are the last descendants of the Vintage Camera accomplishment when taking a photo was a challenge and a bit fun to go to these places....
Correct. Obviously I can’t go into that much precise detail about cameras when addressing just lens history. Thanks again!
Hooray you're on you tube
Thanks!
I’d love to see a history of Canon lenses!
Great idea! It’s much rockier with the great rift of FD then EOS, which of course was the right thing to do.
Thank you Ken, I've followed your web site for 15+ years, so strange hearing your voice on video.
I hope to see and hear more from you.
That you will! Thanks!
You don’t mention the first Nikon AF lenses to be sold, the 80 mm f:2.8 and 200 mm f:3.5 for the F3AF. I have one of the 80 mm ones, but I don’t have a F3AF. However, it will also focus with the F4 and the F-501 (N2020), which I do have, but I use the lens mainly on manual focus bodies.
Strange choice of lenses, I don’t know why they didn’t make anything wider than the 80 mm. Also strange that they started with an electrical autofocus system, changed to a mechanical one, and then back to a different electrical one.
I only mentioned the biggest classes of lenses, otherwise the video would drag on for hours. Those were crazy times! Thanks.
I could’ve listened for another hour with any complaints whatsoever!!! Few are masters of their specific abilities, Sir you have mastered your craft so I’m grateful! (From an older dude making is way into macro photography using baby’s steps).
Thank you!!!
Well isn't that the craziest thing. After 20 years plus of reading your website, often with tongue firmly in cheek, I can finally put a voice to you.🤔
Aha! Thanks!!!
Such an incredible upload, a heck of a lot of fun to see all of that history!!
Thank you; it was fun to do!
Ken Rockwell criticized for being too popular in google camera/photo searches. Up next photogs complaining that Ken Rockwell too popular in youtube camera/photo searches. (don't forget to like/subscribe, i have)
Thank you! I get ranked well because I put up useful information that people actually find enlightening and helpful; not just fluff.
Like Nikon, you don't stop either, lol. Nice to see you in the video game here -- your website has been a major resource for me for years.
Thanks John!!!
Simply superb! Great contribution. How about making a video on Leica lenses.one on your beloved M3, with actual demo with all your M glass collection. Looking forward to it.
Good idea, but real LEICA shooters never talk about our gear; we’re too driven to create every waking moment, and since we’re so much at one with our gear, never even notice it’s there. Thanks!
What a pleasant surprise to find you on UA-cam! 😁
Thanks!
Hi Sir, I'm Amal Pal, from Kolkata, India and I've been among the lots of your staunch followers and I'm highly benefited by your advice on "Nikon Dream Team Lense". I also advise others to go just through your review and not to get distracted by the rivews made by any other. Thank you sir..... 👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Thank you!!!!!!!
little fun fact, that 60s fisheye at 7:40 was used by Stanley Kubrick in 2001: Space odyssey to make the glowing "Eye" for the HAL 9000 :)
Thanks!
@@KenRockwellTV no problem :)
btw Mr. Rockwell I have a question, I built a pinhole camera using an old style hasselblad magazine 12, if I use the peep hole in the back to check my winding to the next frame, do I risk light leaks through the peep hole onto my film or is it made so you can always open the hole in normal light conditions?
Yikes! I just got a NIkon Lens History Minor Degree in 26m32s from KR University!!! I learned a lot!!!!!!!!! Thank you KR
Thanks!
Valuable guide for any one who wants to master true photography skills as opposed to people who are after bragging rights for owning the latest and greatest gear bought at ridiculous prices. Are you after great photographs OR owning the most expensive gear without knowing how to use it? Helps one make up their mind! Very helpful info.
Thanks!
You’re the best out there. I ALWAYS refer to your site if I have any questions, and NEVER leave unsatisfied. Thank you for your service to the industry
Thank YOU!!!
Thank you for this, I further more loving my 50mm 1.4 AiS lens. And sure to find more AiS of its kind for my collection.
Those are the greatest lenses for 35mm cameras ever made outside of Europe.
Great History Ken. I too have only stumbled upon your UA-cam page recently after reading your reviews starting about 12 years ago. Always loved your very high-res product shots on your page. Looking forward to great video content here as well!
Thank you!!!
I shouldn't say, but I love your style! Maybe you are the biggest asset for any lucid photograph in the world! My humble thank you!
And THANK YOU!!! You folks make it all possible.
Best video on Nikon lens history on UA-cam, EVER! I believe I have watched enough UA-cam videos to say that!
Thank YOU!!!!!!!!
I agree!!!
Ken, I have been following for ages….Thank you for your great info and guidance!
Thank you for reading all these years! I’m a little behind because I’m working with one broken arm and working on editing photos to publish from my October trip. Thanks!!!
Ken, you're the one! Didn't know you do videos too. I'm glad I've found you here. I'm a long time web page follower of yours and your recommendations helped me a lot. Many thanks buddy! You deserve much credit for your work over the years.
Merci bien!
Excellent video. Really miss those Made in Japan all metal lenses from Nikon.
Me too. That’s why I started shouting nikon back in 1983, and why I switched to Canon back in 2012. Thanks!
Thanks KEN
THANKS Chirag!!!!
Wow you are presenting this very well and now after all these years I finally know what I actually was using hahaha. Thanks!
Thank YOU!!!
LOL, subliminal sexual satisfaction, that's so funny !!!
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@@KenRockwellTV After reading from your site for years, it's nice to communicate with you. Keep up the good work Ken :)
@@KenRockwellTV Maybe Nikon should designate an SX line of Z camera bodies and lenses for eXceptionally SeXy and Seductive.... introducing the Z 8 SX with the new SX line of lenses.....for the advanced connoisseur....
read Ken's 'Leicaman' diatribe, priceless. like the best humour, there is a good deal of real truth in it. A.
It was kinda funny the 1st time. After that it was just creepy!
I'm very late coming to the party, but the Ken's website has been highly useful in the last year. Discovered the website because of his "how to win at ebay" article, which every dummy like me should read.
Excellent work sir! Nice to put a voice to the written word, you've had me in stitches reading your more satirical work on the website.
Hee Hee. Thanks!
Two thumbs up nikon 105 2.5 is my favorite lens on my z6 😍😍😍
Arrigato!!
Great lecture! Thank you for the effort! Highly appreciated!
Thank you!!
Great Story!!!!
Tech Life TV thanks for watching!
What about Nikon 1?
Full review from 2013. Always check my website for full reviews. kenrockwell.com/nikon/nikon-1/index.htm
Ken, this was such a delight. Thank you.
David Fraser thank you for watching!
Very enjoyable video! You made me want to pop my 100/f2.8 E-series on my D2XS and go shoot.Llove how the arrows in the D2XS viewfinder tell me which way to turn the manual focus ring. Epic!
Yip, the E 100/2.8 is optically superb!
Been using your web pages for years. Today, I 'discovered' your UA-cam channel. Thanks for all your great reviews.
Yours is the first page I visit before I go ahead and buy a lense. Particularly when I am buying an older, or secondhand lense. You are the lense man!
Thank you! Yes, while these videos here are fun, if you’re actually about to buy something always read my site which will always be more up to date and detailed. Once published, there’s no way to edit UA-cam videos except for the title and comments. I edit my site numerous times every day as things develop. Thanks!
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Series E is like E for everyone!
YES!!! Thanks!
I heard it was Economy for lower cost version. Or maybe that was the name given it by the haters.
Holy crap. A voice to go with the years of lurking on your website. Is this real life?
No, it's TV. Nothing is real. Thanks! You're awesome! I think my voice is someplace on my site, like at the radio interview link. Thanks!
Love me some Ken Rockwell!!
Ken Rockwell is such a legend!
frankthespank Thanks Frank!!!!
Just found out you have a UA-cam channel. Immediate subscribe.
You're the BEST! Thanks Baruch!!!!
And now the Chuck Norris of lenses speaks up loud an clear !
Thanks! How do I sound?
I had to bring out my note book for this and was glad to do it! Amazing! Thank you!
Thank YOU!
Thank you Ken for coming to UA-cam! Great expansion for a guy with so much knowledge about photography and maybe new generations of photograpers will benefit from this knowledge ❤️
Thank YOU!
26 minutes went by very quickly, thank you.
Thank YOU!
Great video, so much information, I have just found you-i am sold
Thanks!
In 2023 i use an D800 the series E are my favorite primes, i use the 28mm 50mm and 100mm, quitte frequent.. i really love the 100m @ F2.8! such a lightweight tiny and so sharp little monster!
Exactly. Ultralight. Ultra sharp (although the 28mm Series E is bettered by the very different 28/2.8 Nikkor AI and AI-s lenses which use a much more complex optical design)Thanks!
@@KenRockwellTV Thanks, thaught the 20 series was pretty good.. maybe i will find a ai-s version in future.. recently i found a 135mm F2 DC, it's by far my new favorite now! Bokeh is superior!
A tour de force 100-year survey! Makes me want to go back to Nikon and buy a Z!
Don’t do that; Canon’s been number one for twenty years. Nikons lensss are mostly disposable today. Thanks!
Thanks for a really informative video Ken. I was very pleased to hear your positive comments about the E series lenses as I've recently got my Nikon kit out if the attic where it's been for about 30 years! I've got the E series 28/2.8 and the 100/2.8 plus an FE body plus a miscellaneous 135 and a Vivitar X2 converter and I thought it was about time it was pressed them back into service. The catalyst for this was being given my late father in law's FM2 body plus 85/2 and 35-105 Nikkors. I think I'm going to give black and white a go but I'm not sure whether to go for lab processing/printing, get a scanner and printer but I'm concerned that if I do that I might as well use a digital camera. In which case the alternative would be to set up a darkroom now that I've retired. Your advice would be appreciated. Cheers Mike in Worcester (England)
Hi Mike! I hate darkroom work. I send my film out to northcoastphoto.com and have them scan it all. I use the scans for everything. Some people enjoy the darkroom As its own hobby - not me. Be sure to calibrate your film speed www.kenrockwell.com/tech/film-speed-calibration.htm and if the sun is out you must use at least a yellow filter to keep the sky from Washing out www.kenrockwell.com/tech/how-to-shoot-film.htm#filters Thanks!
Hey Ken, I’m using the 80-200m nikons 4.5 on a fuji. Being that the lens is slightly heavy should I not shoot with the shutter below 100?
Also is there a big difference between the 28mm ai-28s?
Try it and see; we’re all different. I’d never use these on Fuji, I’d only use genuine Fuji lenses like the www.kenrockwell.com/fuji/x-mount-lenses/70-300mm.htm
@@KenRockwellTV just curious why you’d never us these on a fuji
How does Ken get all the products? Definitely well rock
I pay for them like everyone else. I just order them as soon as I can; see www.kenrockwell.com/tech/how-to-get-it.htm Thanks!
Brilliant and super clean video,Ken.Even your nails are clean!
Thanks!
Very nice video, I've been reading most of your articles since 2012 when I first learning photography with Nikon D70s & D1x, always love it.
That nikon GN lens really surprise me, nikon ingenuity in the age of fixed GN flash.
Anyway, you missed to mention those "new" E nikon lenses, one with "internal electronic aperture control" like one use used in Nikon's PC-E lenses (similar to Canon's electronically controlled aperture system).
I suppose those "old" nikon aperture feeler control system has evolved quite nicely, first it was very crude with very large stepping, but you could always have a bright viewfinder with the lens at max opening right after you took the picture and set the aperture properly when you press the shutter button (hence the word "AUTO" on the lens).
I believe older Nikon DSLR would simply fully release those aperture feeller to fully close the aperture during exposure, (auto) indexing on the lens aperture ring is the one decides where to stop closing the aperture.
Newer DSLR like D300 with AI lens compatibility, you need to fully closed the aperture to the smallest value and the aperture feeler will "step" in precisely to the aperture value set in the camera exposure setting.
It's like 5mm distance with fixed linear steps from likely say f/1.4 to f/22 with 1/3 or 1/2 stop increments, how many steps is that? 8 stops? multiply by 2 if 1/2 stop increments or multiply by 3 if 1/3 stop increments (equal to 24 linear step in 5 mm with each one mayber around 0.2mm! and the DSLR has to do it very fast and precisely or risking wrong exposure even if it missed by a fraction of mm).
Heck, I once did a "forced" metering on D70s to support my junked 50/1.4 pre-AI using salvaged kit lens electronics;
yeah, you got a wrong exif information, but provides you with focus confirmation (nikon always provide focus beep) and proper light meter during exposure in A or M mode (mind you the aperture still has to be set on the lens aperture ring but at least they meter properly and back to fully open once the exposure has completed).
Learning nikon DSLR and try to understand nikon's flash system (pretty advanced and D70s/D200 support for wireless commander) was the best experience in my memories, today I've almost got no time to play with photography.
Pity, still follow the news but slowly gets left behind.
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Against my better judgement I watched this video. I thought I had my Nikkor lust in check. May have to find that tiny silver 45. Thanks for showing that beautiful SP!
Easy to find on eBay www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/45.htm thanks!
@@KenRockwellTV not sure I need one that bad$$$.
Any cheap lens that can recoment for the Nikon n2000
Yes! See here www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/cheapskate-lenses.htm and here is the instruction manual cdn-10.nikon-cdn.com/pdf/manuals/archive/N2000_(11).pdf this is a manual focus camera so the best is to use manual focus lenses AF lenses work if you focus manually , but ONLY If they have an aperture ring.
Excellent video. Glued from start to finish.
Thank!
Been using your reviews for years! I got my Nikon 80-200mm f4.5n thanks to your review raving over it! It's now my main lightweight telephoto zoom when doing 35mm landscape photography
Thanks!
whoa.... this is the guy who is responsible for those S3, F - F5 and of course FE, in my box
Not me! Thanks!
Love this video guide on the lenses. Superb Ken!!
Thank you!
Thanks Ken for doing this awesome video on the history.
Thanks for watching! Thats why I do all this.
Nikon lenses have growne cheaper in build but not in price. with the electronics and plastic build, I question the durability especially with the fact that the cpu controls the f-stop
Todays Z lenses are disposable. I don’t expect them to last more than about ten years in light consumer useage.
@@KenRockwellTV I think someone needs to make more adapters so people wouldn't have to modify AI lenses. Also stunned at the lack of cannon to Nikon, Pentax to Nikon, and so on and so forth adapters, so people had choice in quality lenses. Guess I'm old school as back in the day I enjoyed working in the darkroom with B&W film.
Love your video's Ken, no nonsense straight up. Great to get a quick history lesson especially as I bought a lot of Ai, Ais and D lenses which I love to bits. I disagree that the old non ai shouldn't be converted to be usable on a lot of still current dslrs, it's great glass that will not die after 10 years if looked after and could breathe more life into them instead of gathering dust. I'm sickened too that Nikon decided not to implement a screwdrive motor into their FTZ adaptor, c'mon they could have done it, and I believe they would have won over a lot more fanboys like me to upgrade to their Z mount systems. But honestly I'm completely satisfied with my D7200 and D850 (among other bodies) and still believe the IQ to be more than I'll ever need...I'd love to see you do some Ken Rockwell style tutorials on composition, philosophy of photography, even no BS stuff for beginners, or how to take your photography to the next level, but hey I realize you make all this content for free and I thoroughlymany
Thanks! I agree. Maybe if the Japanese stop having so many TV/stereo brands pumping out cameras people expect me to review I can start talking about actual photography again. This format would be Ideal. Thanks!
Congratulations from a fan in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil!
Great and informative video!!!!
Thanks!
I've learned so much. I had been told that the Nikon F was based on the SP, but I've never seen an SP in person. If one wants to talk about hard to use cameras, I've used a Crown Graphic handheld to shoot bar license photos in Newark NJ.
Hi Jerome, Man, you're a REAL photographer. If someone can't load film holders and work a dark slide, they may was well just use their iPhone. Thanks!
Very interesting, and thank you for this video
Thank YOU!!!
So I can buy old auto focus lens from the 90s, stick the rabbit ears on them and use them with my F2? Had no idea....
Don’t bother. Manual focus lenses work and feel so much better for manual focus. Thanks!
@@KenRockwellTV I won’t, but knowing I can is just crazy but typical of Nikon I guess!
Happy and Just we listened to u, ken the great, u are great yes*******. Hope you are doing well,❤❤❤❤❤ and all ways u are for all Nikoner.
Thank you!!!