Big EL Nikkor Lenses

[Michio Akiyama]

Has anyone ever used these lenses?

EL Nikkor 360mm F5.6
https://redbook-jp.com/redbook-e/rfen/en4.html

EL Nikkor 300mm F5.6 and 300 mm F5.6A
https://redbook-jp.com/redbook-e/rfen/en5.html

Michio Akiyama/JAPAN

[Petr sheepeck Jůza]

Oh - those are some mean lenses. Look absolutely gorgeous. I wonder where do you mount them?

[mxbianco]

I have the 240mm/5.6 and it's a massive lens (about 900 g weight, 82 mm filters). The 300mm is reported as 1550 g, so it's even more massive!

To be able to focus at all on a 35mm camera, you have to resort to a bellows mount like the PB-4, with extra tubes and a fully extended helicoid, or the PB-6 with its extension PB-6D. Enlargers for those optics must have been huge toys!

Ciao from Massimo

[Dr Klaus Schmitt]

The APO EL NIKKORS (especially the utra rare 480mm) are even BIGGER!!

[Michael Erlewine]

I have had the APO Nikkon 105mm f/5.6 and the APO Nikkor 210mm f/.6 and I could not find any difference in image between the two, so I sold the 210mm (tto heavy and bulky) and kept the 105mm, which I consider one of the top 1 or two lenses that I use. I have a lot of lenses, so that means the APO 105mm is very, very special for my work.

[Dr Klaus Schmitt]

I have had the APO Nikkon 105mm f/5.6 and the APO Nikkor 210mm f/.6 and I could not find any difference in image between the two, so I sold the 210mm (tto heavy and bulky) and kept the 105mm, which I consider one of the top 1 or two lenses that I use. I have a lot of lenses, so that means the APO 105mm is very, very special for my work.

You had the APO EL Nikkor 105mm and 210mm Michael, not the "APO Nikkor" which also exist (large format Repro lenses those are) - easy to confuse....

[Michael Erlewine]

You had the APO EL Nikkor 105mm and 210mm Michael, not the "APO Nikkor" which also exist (large format Repro lenses those are) - easy to confuse....

You are right. My mistake.

[Michio Akiyama]

I love APO EL Nikkor 105mm F5.6N lens.
A small but Big Optical Jet Engine
Excellent Micro contrast Lens
https://redbook-jp.com/redbook-e/rfap/ap3.html

[Andre@ Gazzoni]

Hello Michio, I have 150, 210, 240 and a beautiful 300mm EL Nikkor that I am planning to use in the next future on my Durst 184 enlarger. I would love to find a 360mm. Andrea