CLAed! Nikon Nikkor-N Auto 28mm f/2 Fast Wide Angle Lens Ai F mount Digi OK!

Description: Up for sale is a nice CLAed (Cleaned/Lubed/Adjusted) example of the classic Nikon Nikkor-N 28mm f/2 lens in the Ai version of the Nikon F mount.The fastest-aperture 28mm lens available at the time it was released and one of Nikon's first lenses to use a floating element design, this lens remains a highly-sought after classic due to its exceptional image quality, low light performance, and ability to produce images with extremely shallow depth of field. Lens is in nice vintage condition with moderate exterior wear (minor brassing/bumping), excellent mechanics, and glass free of scratches/haze fungus.Additionally, this lens has been completely disassembled and CLAed(Cleaned/lubed/adjusted) with full iris cleaning and helical lube replacement for top performance. This is particularly important in this model, as the degradation of the original lubricants in the floating element typically lead to excessive play and migration of oil onto the aperture iris. Includes caps. This lens features the Nikon Ai F mount which can be used natively on Nikon film SLRs and a various Nikon DSLRs (without modification. If you are unsure whether it will work on your camera, please feel free to contact me for guidance. It also can easily be adapted for manual use on most other popular DSLR, and mirrorless formats with an inexpensive adapter ring (sold separately, see chart below for digital compatibility). Includes caps. Digital mount compatibility chart Mount Adaptable? Glassless Infinity? Notes Canon EF DSLR Y N Nikon F DSLR NATIVE* Y *Various Nikon DSLRs have different levels of compatibility with Ai series lenses. Please contact me if you have any questions regarding compatibility with your camera Pentax K DSLR Y N Sony E Mirrorless Y Y Sony A DSLR Y N Panasonic/Olympus 4/3 DSLR Y Y Canon EOS M Mirrorless Y Y Canon EOS R Mirrorless Y Y Fuji X Mirrorless Y Y Leica/Panasonic/Sigma L Y Y Panasonic/Olympus m4/3 Y Y Nikon 1 Mirrorless Y Y Nikon Z Mirrrorless Y Y Pentax Q Mirrorless Y Y CLA FAQs This lens has been completely disassembled and CLAed (Cleaned/Lubed/Adjusted), with cleaning of individual components aperture cleaning and total helical cleaning/relube for like-new performance! Q: Why buy a CLAed lens? Put quite simply, lenses get dirty over time. Many used vintage sold lenses here on eBay are described as “mint condition,” typically meaning they are free of obvious optical flaws like haze or fungus and have a clean-appearing exterior. However, opening them up tells a quite different story. While these lenses may appear tightly built, they nearly all use open designs, which allows substantial amounts of dust, dirt, and grit to enter the lens, where it settles into delicate precision components, adversely affecting the mechanical properties of the lens and leading to increased wear. Furthermore, even in unused samples, lubricants tend to degrade over time, leading to degraded focus action as grease dries out, or slow blades and soiled optics as oil migrates within the lens. Q: What services do you perform on the lens before sale? With the lens disassembled, I perform a full CLA (Clean Lube Adjust). This entails cleaning out any internal and external soiling, cleaning aperture blades of grease that can slowing, re-lubing the focus helical, and adjusting all components for tightness and accuracy. Where there is extensive dust or internal lens soiling, I will disassemble lens cells and clean off surfaces; however, it is my general philosophy to keep lens elements in their factory positions in assembled cells when at all possible to ensure optimum performance. Q: DUST? What do you mean DUST? A: All vintage lenses have dust in them. In fact, they had dust in them when they were brand new from the factory! This is because prior to the advent of very modern sealed designs, lenses were not put together in a clean room environment, and the natural static charge of the glass tends to attract dust particles. Coupled with the open designs used in these lenses, it is virtually impossible to find any vintage lens without some degree of dust particles visible when you look closely through the lens. All of my CLA lenses have at minimum the exterior and internal cell surfaces wiped with a dust-free, lab-grade optical tissue and then blown off with an air bulb prior to reassembly and thus have a significantly below average amount of dust for a vintage lens. m356

Price: 220 USD

Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

End Time: 2024-12-22T15:40:45.000Z

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