Re: [Leica] Nikon 35mm f2.5 LTM lens

["Mike Durling" <durling@widomaker.com>]

Ken:

I've always suspected that an old Nikon "One Touch" P&S camera had the same
lens.  Do you know if this is true?  I always thought that the lens was a
Tessar type but that was just an assumption on my part.  Looks too small for
a Gauss.

I confess my impression of softness is not based on recent experience.  I'll
have to get it out now that I'm printing again.

Mike Durling
KD4KWB
http://www.widomaker.com/~durling/

- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Iisaka" <kiisaka@pacbell.net>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Monday, February 21, 2000 1:13 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Nikon 35mm f2.5 LTM lens


> I think it is one of Nikon's greatest lenses.  It is somewhat soft and
> flarey at wide open, but it is extremely sharp and contrasty by 5.6.
> For a lens that was designed in the early fifties, mere few years after
> the end of the war which devastated Tokyo where Nikon is based, it is a
> remarkable lens, arguably better than Leitz Elmar and perhaps Summarons
> of the equal focal length.  It is in a classic double Gauss
> configuration, I believe, with six elements in four groups.  35mm focal
> length providing 60 degrees of coverage is really a practical limit for
> this design, and there is some vignetting at wide open, as well.  It is
> interesting to note that Nikon's equally venerable 28mm 1:3.5 is in
> Orthmetar configuration, also with six elements in four groups, but with
> outer elements being cemented.
>
> It is interesting to note that virtually the same lens, save one
> element, is still produced as the normal lens for Nikon's underwater
> Nikonos system.
>
> Ken Iisaka kiisaka@pacbell.net
> Lost in Mill Valley in Marin County, California
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Robert Browne <rbrowne@iopener.net>
> To: <Leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
> Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2000 8:59 PM
> Subject: [Leica] Nikon 35mm f2.5 LTM lens
>
>
> > Dear LUG,
> >
> > Does anyone have any opinion on or personal experience with the Nikon
> 35mm f2.5 LTM lens? I plan to use it on my IIIf with an old Alpex
> viewfinder I've had forever.
> >
> > Thanks in advance for your replies.
> >
> > Robert Browne
> >
>
>