Nikon NIKKOR 28mm f/2.8 AI | BMPCC 6K - Vintage Lens Review
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- Опубліковано 25 сер 2024
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"The Nikon NIKKOR 28mm 2.8 is a wonderful lens. Amazingly sharp to my surprise. I love the look of vintage lenses but one of the biggest hangups I have with buying them is the possibility of fungus, dust, or moisture inside from age. Finding a super clean vintage lens like this one is a steal. I got this lens for around $130 at a local camera store. When I shoot with something like this, it makes me question why I'm paying for all these features in a lens that I don't really need.
There are lenses out there that offer great features, and yet I'm paying for most of them without even using most of them.
I bought a photo fotodiox Nikon to EF for like $18 while at the shop as well."
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I have a collection of vintage analog film cameras and some Polaroid, and I "found" the Nikkor H 3.5 28mm in one Nikkormat camera, I ordered the Pixco NIK-EF adapter and fit like a glove and Voilà! The magic arrived! What a pristine image! I own also the Sigma 18-35mm 1.8, but definitily the Nikkor have his own personality. I always use the Sigma with ND filter, and with the Nikkor I almost use it without the ND filter, and yes, the light weigth is a temptation when I do handheld shots with my BMPCC 6K G2. Congratulations for your cinematic job!
Oh my god the flare looks so amazing on this. Yeah I'm glad i have a nikon and use these natively. Its looks really great
I'm using the same lens! It's super sharp but not tooooo sharp(you know what I mean) so I love it...Thanks for sharing this awesome review, please keep it up👍
Very cool! Thanks man!
Cool and interestingly different little lens review. I love my old nikkor ais glass. The 24mm f/2.8 ais is a doozy too, top notch for peanuts.
That juice! Love it bro! Thanks for the knowledge shared, and the vibes! Loved being able to be a part of this!
Big love, bro. Let’s do it some more!
Some super gorgeous shots in this video 🤩
Thank you Joe! Bless.
Man, congratulations! That's a really beautiful video & review.
I got the nikkor 24mm f2.8 and use it with a speedbooster which gives it a great low light performance. Also got the35 mm f2.8 and 55mm f2.8 macro. On the way is a 50mm f1.8. With the speedbooster this one will be a sub f1 super fast lens for low light.
These are great lenses at an affordable price. Some people complain that the colors run blue, but I really think they just don't get the aperture right. I tested them and only got blue hue when the aperture was wide open in daylight. With the right aperture the colors are beautiful. All the lenses cost me less than usd100 individually, except the 50mm f1.8 which cost 110. All are near mint or mint condition.
Dude Andre great to hear you've had such a good experience with these! And congrats on building the kit. The more I use them, I am happy to have them. They do have limitations and flaws, but like you said for the price, a way to build a decent kit.
Really love your videos, man! You created some truly beautiful images here. What a wonderful combo. Awesome job!
Glad you liked it!
That's some beeeeautiful cinematic footage! Plus, Nikon lenses image look really close to Zeiss Contax lenses, so they can match well.
Thanks man! I didn't realize that and will have to get a pair for comparison. Do you have any Zeiss Contax?
Great video with many gorgeous shots! Regarding "when this lens is sharp, the light source turns blue." This is spherochromatism (out of focus highlights showing up as color fringes). It should appear magenta/blue in the foreground and green the background. I think on your two freeway shots, you may have thrown the lens to infinity which is past the cars, leading to the blue. I see magenta in the nearest cars and blue in the further away cars when you were focused past them. When you focused in, they all turned greenish. I have the AI-s version of this lens (which is still sold new from 1981 to today) and I agree with your comment that this lens has character and a vintage look. Some people consider the green fringing in the background to be a big boost to bokeh, especially when the background includes trees and foliage. Not so much for night maybe. You can use the shift in color to focus the lens. Stopping down the lens diminishes spherochromatism. So I would say that when this lens is in focus, the light sources exhibit no color fringes. When out of focus, highlights can exhibit magenta/blue (fore) and green (aft). Again, great video. I really liked the lens flares on the car dash.
My man, Scott. I didn’t know this so thank you! I’m happy to hear you’re getting positive results from your own :)
slightly off topic but I just remembered I actually have this in my left eye because I'm near sighted haha. I always end up seeing a blue or green outline whenever my eye wants to focus lol
Really good advice!!! I Own the same lens and I really like it! I shoot with the pocket 6k too. I bought the lens on eBay and I received it with the back glass scratches and I tested it at night (you can see the video on my UA-cam) and the lens is super soft! I texted the seller because he didn’t wrote on the ad that the lens have this scratches problem and he is not willing to pay the shipping and the import taxes (cose I bought it from USA and I live in Italy). So I decided to keep it. I cleaned all the coating from the back lens, but still not sharp as yours… can you help me in som way? Is possible to get the coating back? Thank you! And amazing video! You have a new subscription 😎
@@hiabiy wow... That's wild. It's the same light... No matter if it's captured by film, a digital sensor, or I guess your eye. 😆
Some people do change aperture in video mode, like I once saw a review of a movie, where the camera moves outside from inside a tent and they changed the aperture gradually, but thats for old film cameras
This is one of my favorite lenses. I use it with my BMPCC4K and I love it so much.
This is What i call A F*King good review ! Thanks man ! I have been shooting a bit on them my friend made a Cine lens kit modded of all the Ai serie . And i am now starting to build mine . He have declicked and greaced the focus ring ... and i can tell ... this kit could compete with the contax you are talking about ! I think these Nikkor lenses have suck a beautiful look out there compared to ''Expensive'' Glass. Last shoot i Acually paired my Aivascope 1.5x with the 28mm 2.8 @2.8 ... Its just Insane the look . Speciallywith a HBM filter 1/4 in the front :)
Thanks for the feedback man! I have never heard of the Aivascope.
Bro this makes me homesick lol. Beautiful shots as always!
Thanks, Sean. Hope all is well! Come up and visit Michael and I sometime soon!
Mate, you are making great videos, what's up? Why no new uploads?
You have massive potential!
My guy, thank you. I needed this.
Just moved up near DC and getting settled in. Appreciate the kind words.
You just convinced me to buy this lens! On its way from Japan pretty much mint!
Let’s go!!
Japan and mint are two words that don't fit really well together, at least in my experience on buying vintage lenses
Nice review! Also loved the "so I can make lots of money." lol
Lo voy a comprar gracias a tu video, muchas gracias bro
one of the best vintage 28mm primes, with a floating element. $120 is a good deal for that, as prices are going up.
Just now learning about this. Do you have any vintage glass you use that you love?
@@collinausbury You could say i've been bite by the vintage lens bug. I have a set of Leica R (Summicron's), Set of Rollei, Set of Canon FD, Set of Takumars, Set of Pentax K, Set of Tomioka (Chinon) and Set of Minolta MC/MD plus an assortment of others. Once you start its hard to stop.
I like them all....😂
Yoooo. My guy. What camera are you shooting on and what specific lenses do you grab out of your kit the most?
@@collinausbury BMPCC 6k, Sony A7S 3 and Panasonic S1 with Ninja V, really want the kinifinity LF but not a priority as a hobbyist. I love to shoot with the Leica R's (28, 35, 50 and 90) followed by the Rollei, Takumars and Pentax/Minolta in that order. The Rollei are essentially Contax Carl Zeiss glass eqv.
The Pentax K/Minolta/Canon nFDs have a more consistent coating and colour matched well, but getting a set of colour matched Leica R's was tough.
Your Nikkor's are great, I recently bought the 50mm f1.2 Ais, now looking for a decent 105 and 35, and 28.
@Damien Dehorn much respect. I’ve heard some great things about the Kinefinity’s. Have you seen Raafi Rivero’s review of one of there cameras? It’ll make you want to buy one even more.
Great underrated lens! You have the older ai version of the 28/2.8, which sell for around $80-100. There’s a newer ai-s version that’s sharper at close focus with a floating CRC lens element. I prefer your older ai version though, because it’s sharper at infinity and is a better general use lens. My favorite version is the faster 28mm F2. It’s a great performer wide open, performs well at close focus, and is sharp at infinity. You should try the 28/2 if you like adapting lenses for video.
@Velo I will be sure to add it to my list. That sounds great. Are you a fan of any other glass?
@@collinausbury I normally switch between my Ziess, Leica, Pentax, Minolta, Canon, and Olympus lenses when I’m not shooting with my Nikon stuff. The Nikon 28/2 is something special, so I usually reach for that lens for general use.
@@collinausbury The AI lenses are generally of superior construction compared with the AIS, although the AIS lenses are still well made. The optical formula of some lenses was updated for AIS but the AIS lenses were designed for still photographers to achieve focus faster and have much shorter focus throws. Many people prefer AI for cinema use.
I discovered this last week. There’s a website that has catalogued every Nikon lens ever made, and the biggest difference I’m seeing is AI-S aperture blade count occasionally moving from 7 (AI) to 9. The next difference like you mentioned is the focus throw being nearly halved. My biggest thing since I’m considering building a kit of these, I want the long focus throw of the AI, but I think I moreso want the nine bladed aperture on the AIS.
Things to consider!
Generally what characteristics have you seen in your some of your lenses that you absolutely love/what stands out to you? Is there a particular manufacturer that is your favorite?
hi i have the opportunity to have an 28 mm f2 is it better than the 2.8 ?
nice and clean. i enjoyed that!
Awesome! What's your ND option for this lens?
I use the NISI IR ND filter. It’s been incredible. You may need some step up rings
I found someone selling this one in the market for about 70$ and i'm planning to buy it for my 1st wide lens on my D750..
great video. What's the minimum focusing distance on it?
Dude, awesome video. Looking forward to more! SUBBED!
Thank you Edwin!
How does this lens compare to the nikkor 24mm f2?
Daimen, I’m not sure but hope to get my hands on one soon. Do you have that lens?
How sharp is this at 2.8?
On a clean copy... Extremely sharp.
Its autofocus or only manual????
Manual!
Hey Collin, I’ve noticed on my version of this lens that when trying to focus on subjects in the far distance, it takes moving the focus ring until a hard stop to achieve focus and sometimes misses due to it hitting the hard stop and needs to rotate further to hit focus but can’t.
Have you noticed this?
What point in your focus rotation are you nailing focus out of interest?
Hey I'm glad you're bringing this up, I'm having the same issue with my 85mm. I wish I would've brought this up. Did you convert these to another mount? If so which mount?
@@collinausbury converted to EF with a simmod mount. I’ve heard it’s an issue with the mount which if mounted incorrectly, won’t focus to infinity correctly.
You can easily declick the lens at home, just remove the "click" tab, check youtube.
That is a k series pre ai lens.
Can you test some other Nikon lenses with BM
You got it! After Thanksgiving I want to share more with you guys.
one question - were the cops in that last shot coming for you about a filming permit or were they there to pull that car over???
haha the cops were pulling someone over. we thought we were in trouble but just walked right on by :)
I had one, foolishly got rid of it. It's a solid lens and essential in this day and age of high res sensors. Never sell it.
No! Where did it end up going?
@@collinausbury Some photographic shop. I basically pawned it so I could buy another lens but I genuinely just regret it. I remember thinking at the time it was 'too soft' but that softness, in hindsight, was a pleasant softness and took the edge off.
@@bluefilmsltd I like the way you put that. May steal that verbiage.
Dude, the low light shots looks fantastic!
So the lens adapter your using. That is for f mount Nikon lenses?
Yes, it’s a Nikon F to EF mount. I don’t recommend it. I’ll be putting out a video on how to mod your Nikon F to Canon EF permanently and talk alternative adapters. Stay tuned!
@@collinausbury Can't wait for this!
Is this a nikkor ais lens or ai?
AI
@@Tom_UA-cam_stole_my_handle if you need more let me know lol. I got a whole set.
What adapter did you get to put it on your black magic ?
I used the Photodiox but highly recommend the K&F concept F to EF. Much tighter on there.
i'm thinking about do a nikon ai lenses kit (28mm 2.8, 35mm 2.8, 50mm 1.8) for my bmpcc 4k, what do you think about it?
I can see an argument for it! People suggest saving the money and going for the AI versions instead. The AI-S have small little upgrades like the occasional aperture blade changes from 7 to 9 blades (more circular bokeh), but a huge difference between AI and AI-S is the focus throw. AI lenses have a much longer throw typically. Preferences at that point. Good luck in your kit building!
@@collinausbury Thanks! Already bought the 35mm f2 ai and 24mm f2.8 ai !!!
Excited for you brother! Shoot me a link to a video you shoot with them.
@@collinausbury asap i'll post a video all recorded with this 2 lenses!
@@collinausbury Which lens do you prefer the best for video and cinema ais or ai?
Can i use this lens on nikon d7200?
Yes.
Do you use a Speedbooster it seems pretty wide?
Hey Jay, no speed booster! Just the Nikon to EF ring adapter.
@@collinausbury Thats awesome man. Looks great!
@@collinausbury Awesome! Just got one for my 6k! Thanks for the help.
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Image quality but size & weight.. 'small & low'
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