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End of Ais NIkkor
olivierssd:
Thanks to NIKON for sustaining the production of these superb lenses for so long. This allowed me to buy a new 50 / 1.2 2 years ago. Many of the lenses in this series are optical and mechanical jewels and are very pleasant to use even on the D850.
Airy:
Now the next question is : how long will Zeiss and Voigtländer further spoil us with their manual focus lenses (AI-something) ?
By the way, among the oldies-but-goodies, do not neglect Leitax-mounted Leica R lenses. Some are disappointing (Elmar 180/4), others are exquisite (Summicron-R 50/2), and then some have even reached Noct-Nikkor pricing levels (Summilux-R 50/1.4 E60)...
Akira:
--- Quote from: Hugh_3170 on September 17, 2020, 11:52:10 ---I should not be too surprised to see the last of the AiS and D Series lenses to pop up in increased numbers on the grey market in the very near future.
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Let's ignore that until the sellers give up taking advantage of the NAS!
--- Quote from: olivierssd on September 17, 2020, 20:42:03 ---Thanks to NIKON for sustaining the production of these superb lenses for so long. This allowed me to buy a new 50 / 1.2 2 years ago. Many of the lenses in this series are optical and mechanical jewels and are very pleasant to use even on the D850.
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It should be a good idea to get the necessary one now. It's nice to be able to focus such a demanding lens on the OVF screen, which is no more my case...
--- Quote from: Airy on September 17, 2020, 21:02:39 ---Now the next question is : how long will Zeiss and Voigtländer further spoil us with their manual focus lenses (AI-something) ?
By the way, among the oldies-but-goodies, do not neglect Leitax-mounted Leica R lenses. Some are disappointing (Elmar 180/4), others are exquisite (Summicron-R 50/2), and then some have even reached Noct-Nikkor pricing levels (Summilux-R 50/1.4 E60)...
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That's exactly what I thought when I finally purchased Nokton 58/1.4. The Leitax modified lenses should be much more comfortable to use on mirrorless lenses. Now they even offer conversion kits that allows these lenses to mount on the mirrorless bodies directly, although the modified lenses look a bit weird.
Bill De Jager:
I've been wondering how long they would continue to produce these old lenses. It's been 14 years since they dropped all film cameras except for the FM10 and F6 which had very slow sales before and after. At that time they also discontinued a number of AI-S lenses. Once they had a (very nearly) full range of G-type lenses on the market, there was no need to produce the old AF-D lenses for digital use but they continued anyway. As others have noted there are very large numbers of the old AI-S and AF-D Nikkor lenses available on the used market.
It's sad, but it's also good that Nikon is rationalizing its produce lineup. I was concerned that they were spending resources on markets of little business value.
I'm glad I bought a number of AI-S lenses back when people were dumping them on the market in large numbers, often in excellent condition. I still have my Df and my manual-focus Nikon film cameras.
Bob.S:
Thank you to all for this 'heads up'....I showed it to my wife who has wanted the DX 18-300 for her D3300 and now she has one, just in the nick of time as it was quite hard to source here in the UK with stocks presumably being run down.
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