1. Nikkor Lens Serial Number

Download pokemon diamond portugues. I have been a long-time Nikkor LF lens user and still make my living with mostly Nikkor LF glass. Since Nikon is no longer making LF lenses I thought it would be helpful to have a spot for some reference information about the lenses here on the forum.There are a few previous threads with some good info but nothing comprehensive, and nothing covering serial numbers. Which is what I started out looking for. I had a copy of the 2004 PDF of the Nikkor Large Format Lens brochure.So I am posting a link to it here in June 2018. We'll see how long it lasts, I'll host it as long as I can.

Note: In the case of the Nikkor wides, 'W' just means 'wide'. Prior to approximately 1976, most Nikon lenses had a suffix appended directly after the 'Nikkor' name that was used to denote the number of optical elements in the lens design.

So please add any additional insight and history to this thread, it will be much appreciated!There is also endless information in the March 1998 B&H Photography Sourcebook (pages 233-235) There's a lot of good large format camera and lens info in this publication printed in the last decades of professional Large format in every studio, I'm glad I still have a paper copyTo quote another interesting Nikkor thread that eventually became a testing/resolution argument. It sounds like they did the same thing Rodenstock did.

First there was the 75mm Apo Rodagon R and now there is the 75mm Apo Rodagon D. R stood for Repro. D stands for Duplicating. Why did they switch from R to D? They never said.You spell 'Reproduction' with an R in both German and English, so you'd think that was abetter letter.I think the 75mm lens Bob refers to, is an APO design and then there is additional D and R marks.

I'm not sure one Nikkor W300mmD or Mikkor W135mmD out of the run got designed with APO glass while all the others got 'regular glass.' It may have a higher tolerance, or may be 'exactly 300mmm instead of 302mm, but that's all speculation. Especially if Nikon's lens guru doesn't even know. I see no difference in outside dimensions of the 135mm. And Nikon had a special purpose 120 AM/ED Nikon for the duplicating market only 15mm away from the W135mm on EBay. I have one of the 120mm AM.ED copy lenses and remember doing 2:1 and 1:2 reproductions on Ektachrome 64 in the 1980s with it. I tried the same ratio with a Nikon W210mm 5.6 and had to do a reshoot with the AM120mm because the sharpness was unacceptable at 1:1.My Nikkor-AM.ED 120mm 1:5.6 is in serial range 182300 by the way.

If anyone does have any information about Nikkor Serial Numbers, please let me know. I have a SW120 in the 700400 serial a W 180mm at 731500 serial a SW 90mm in the 700300 serial and am looking at a 800600 series Nikkor W 135mm right now.

Nikkor Lens Serial Number

Effron wrote:Screamin Scott wrote: A lot less that can fail on the older mechanical lenses as opposed to newer electronic models.That's the gospel.I've seen older and modern af lenses both disassembled and its amazing what they pack into a modern lens.Yeah I have found out what I could break on one of the newer lenses when disassembling it. I had one 18-105 that was dead anyhow, and took it apart to try, and see if I could get it functional again. Nope those little electronic ribbons are really fragile.