I started my photographic journey 40 years ago with a Minolta SRT 101 and a 58 1,4, gift of my parents. This has been for a while my sole equipment. Later completed with an X700 and some nice Minolta primes.

I shifted later to Canon AF, EOS 1000  EOS 5 and some high end lenses like a 28-80 2,8 4,0 L 80 200 2,8 L etc...

I did not like the weight and went to primes, Canon A1 and 28 2,0, 35 2,0, 50 1,4, 100 2,8 but then was the rise of digital.

I could not afford anything like a DSLR and no interesting options were any more available to develop slides that were my main media.

My hobby went on pause and I bought to my wife a Ricoh Caplio R4 (good camera) that I used from time to time.

I bought the cheapest DSLR available when price became reasonable: EOS 1000D with the kit 18-55  and obtained acceptable results and that was my gateway to digital photography.

I downloaded Rawtherapee and started tweaking my RAW files with one objective: come close to the camera jpeg. That was quite uneasy for a beginner.

Later on, Sony introduced the A7 and I bought an A7II, no Sony lens, and started buying back my old Canon and Minolta manual lenses with adapters for E-mount.

Recently and for travel purposes I looked for light travel zooms and was pleasantly surprised by the 28-80 3,3/5,6 G and 80-200 4,5/5,6 amongst some other zooms.

"L'appetit vient en mangeant" and I started a little collection of manual primes 24 2,8 AI; 28 2,0 N Auto; 28 3,5 AI; 35 2,8 K; 35 2,0 O; 50 2,0 HC; 85 2,0 AI; 135 3,5 AI; 200 4,0 AI.

I intervene from time to time on mflenses and fredmiranda and I will happily discuss Nikon gear issues on this forum.

Fons, this image makes me feel kind of sea sick!  What a weird effect!

Oh yeah I can see  your point here Hugh

I attempted a repair on an AI copy of this lens (which was pretty much identical to Rick's K writeup) and I found it very difficult - the focus ring collar could not be removed, with no amount of heat, acetone, IPA nor tapping would free it.  Exactly the same with the lens objective and the front optical group.  For the barrel I had to file an angled groove (so the front face was still intact) to get enough clearance to get a driver onto the screw head and to remove so I could at least service the helicoids.



What I also found - at least with this copy - was the focus is heavy. once the lens objective is put back into the barrel;  after I serviced it was smooth but as soon as the lens objective is inserted (which was a very snug fit), the focus action becomes heavy but not binding.

On a FB, one lens tech said all copies he's worked on have been tight.  Its a shame that this lens is glued like this as its a nice little lens.

The trigger on the Z50 there is a 1st click where it does the AF then then a 2nd click for the exposure.
On my Z7ii there is just a "stop" (no click) where it does the AF and from there it is just spring loaded movement for the exposure.
It reminds me a bit like the F3 trigger action.

In a blur