Unusual 135mm 1/3.5 NIKKOR-Q Auto

[Bruno Schroder]

A few weeks ago, I could not resist buying an unusual 135mm 1/3.5 NIKKOR-Q Auto.

Mechanically and optically identical to the usual model, it is all bare polished metal. No paint, no marking, except the engraving. Residual painting is visible in the DOF markings, so the paint was removed. The seller was told the paint was removed to ease sterilization for use in a lab environment but he got no proof nor confirmation.

Have you heard this before?

I have not taken a picture with it yet. It is a F version, unmodifiable to AI and I loaned my DF to a friend ... I need to retrieve it.

[Akira]

Indeed an interesting lens.  But I would suspect that it was modified on the user's side.  If it were made by Nikon, they could have used their genuine parts before they would be painted.

[Birna Rørslett]

........the paint was removed to ease sterilization for use in a lab environment ....

The lens looks pretty sterilised already Must be some efforts to get the paint off to this extent.

On a tangential note, the Nikonos cameras were popular for sterilisation in their time. Just drop them into the autoclave.

[richardHaw]

It's just someone who butchered a poor Nikkor

The penalty is caning

[Thomas Stellwag]

funny lens, what´s about glass coatings and aperture blade coating? are they removed as well?  It looks like a lens that has been in the hands of a Russian Jupiter repair/polish shop

[Bruno Schroder]

Coating and glass are intact. At first sight blades are also intact but I haven’t shone a light on them.