Strange UV-Nikkor 105mm

[Dr Klaus Schmitt]

Saw this one and wondered about the labeling - never seen before...
https://www.ebay.com/itm/136757579068
Guess this was when Nikon re-issued it after having dropped that line...(?)

[Akira]

If I remember correctly, the UV-Nikkor used to be produced by Tochigi Nikon as a built-to-order industry lens after it had been dropped from the regular Nikkor lineup, thus it doesn't carry "Nikkor" logo and is simply marked ”UV105mm".

The same went with the EL-Nikkors 50mm f2.8 and 63mm f2.8.

[Akira]

Apparently, it is still in production:

https://www.nikon.com/business/industrial-lenses/lineup/uv/


As with the ones formerly sold as EL-Nikkors:

https://www.nikon.com/business/industrial-lenses/lineup/il/


And even the one used to known as Ais Nikkor 35mm f1.4!:

https://www.nikon.com/business/industrial-lenses/lineup/nr/

[Dr Klaus Schmitt]

If I remember correctly, the UV-Nikkor used to be produced by Tochigi Nikon as a built-to-order industry lens after it had been dropped from the regular Nikkor lineup, thus it doesn't carry "Nikkor" logo and is simply marked ”UV105mm".

The same went with the EL-Nikkors 50mm f2.8 and 63mm f2.8.

Yep, that was my thought too, as TOCHIGI the industrial Nikon-daughter company produced those for industrial users, with quite a markup in price and they had the 7xxxx serial number line. But I had not seen that "UV 105mm" name....

[Akira]

Yep, that was my thought too, as TOCHIGI the industrial Nikon-daughter company produced those for industrial users, with quite a markup in price and they had the 7xxxx serial number line. But I had not seen that "UV 105mm" name....

My vague memory tells that an early sample of Tochigi version carried "UV 105" name (without "mm").  But I just found an image of another sample with "mm" here (lonked from Roland's website):

http://www.photosynthesis.co.nz/nikon/ais105tochigi.jpg


My wild guess is that the format of the engraved mark on the built-to-order is not as deffinite as the regularly produced Nikkors.

[Roland Vink]

The lens on ebay is engraved "UV105mm 1:4.5 720006 UV-SPECTRA-F". It is marked differently from the earlier AI-S series (with 20xxxx serial numbers), Tochigi and Rayfact models (700xxx serials).