I upgraded my vintage lens... | Nikkor 20mm Ai-s f/2.8
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- čas přidán 22. 07. 2024
- I decided to upgrade from my old nikkor 20mm Ai-s f/2.8 lens to improve my wide angle landscape photography and film making after it has served me so well in the past few years. It was my most used lens for photography and film making so I'm a little sad to be leaving it behind.
Thank you!
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro and welcome
01:42 Pier sunrise - port phillip
02:15 Why I bought this lens
03:24 Limitations
05:00 New lens reveal and sizing - Nikon Z 14-30mm f/4 S
05:31 Weather sealing
06:07 Autofocus
06:15 Low light sunrise testing - Inverloch
08:15 Colour comparison
09:19 f/2.8 vs f/4 aperture
10:04 Vintage 20mm lens character and benefits
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Very interesting. Thanks
Great video! Thx!
Thank you.
Agree with the vignetting at 2.8 but my version has quite vibrant colours. Must be variations to coatings over the years.
Yes I have a few vintage lenses and I have still taken some of my best photos with this one. I am comparing it to a much newer lense here so it's an uphill battle but it still holds up really well for its age in my video's and images.
Such a great video. So interesting and informative.
Thank you :)
Whereabouts were you where it was raining? The Barrington Tops? I am looking to buy more vintage lenses for my Df now and keep my connection to Nikon going. Thanks for the video.
It was actually two locations in New Zealand. The one climbing the mountainside was in the Matukituki valley and the other when I was wearing the poncho was in the copland track on the north west of the Aoraki national park.
8:38 was this at the same time with the same camera settings? The color difference is huge
Yes these was shot back to back but there are a few factors though at that exact time point as I did have to walk around and come back to the camera to change lenses and I moved the camera slightly. A more accurate comparison with raw footage back to back with each other was at 9:04 where the effects do not seem as drastic as there was simplay a lens change.
Wow, your whole video is a gem! But... No phone lens, PLEASE!
Don't worry I also hate phone lenses so I only use it when I really need to.
@@seancjmatthews1:10...so comfortable... so warm, so homely, so romantic.
No one needs autofocus for a 20mm lens.
Each to their own man! I personally don't either as I mainly do landscape images but fiddling with such a fine focus on the vintage lense was frustrating which under time pressure especially during sunset etc trying to focus stack and hdr while using focus peaking and bumping the camera trying to focus. The new lense has been great to solve the above issues for me. Not needed but nice to have.
That's the thorium dioxide on the lens, take it apart and lick the lenses clean or just shine a uv light through it for a day or leave outside for a week. With aperture open
Nikkor Ai-S lenses do not contain thorium.
@@MarcusRobbin
RADIOACTIVE NIKKORS:
Nikkor AiS 15/3,5 : 187
Nikkor AF 16/2,8 D : 185
Nikkor AFS 17-35/2,8 ED : 214 (rear)
Nikkor AiS 20/2,8 : 194
Nikkor-O 2,1cm f/4 : 199
Nikkor AF 24-120/3,5-5,6 D : 214
Nikkor Ai 25-50/4 : 231
Nikkor AF 28/1,4 D : 225 (front) 215 (rear)
Nikkor Ai 28/2 : 211
Nikkor 28/2,8 (Nikon 28Ti) : 221
Nikkor AiS 28/2,8 : 178
Nikkor F 28/3,5 : 178
Nikkor PC 28/3,5 : 190
Nikkor F 35/2 : 229
Nikkor AiS 35/1,4 : 198 (front) 210 (rear)
Nikkor F 43-86/3,5 : 192
Nikkor F GN 45/2,8 : 178
Nikkor Ai 50/2 : 178
Nikkor AiS 50/1,8 : 178
Nikkor F 50/1,4 S : 178
Nikkor F 50/1,4 SC : 192 (front) 200 (rear)
Nikkor AF 50/1,4 : 191 (rear) 178 (front)
Nikkor F Micro 55/3,5 : 178
Nikkor Ai MIcro 55/3,5 : 191
Nikkor AiS Micro 55/2,8 : 178
Nikkor Ultra-Micro 55/2 : 212 (front) 204 (rear)
Nikkor AiS NOCT 58/1,2 : 211 (front) 183 (rear)
Nikkor AF Micro 60/2,8 : 199
Nikkor AF 85/1,8 : 178
Nikkor AiS 85/1,4 : 221
Nikkor AiS 105/1,8 : 211
Nikkor Ai 105/4 micro: 197
Nikkor AiS 180/2,8 ED : 250
Nikkor Ai 200mm F4
Nikkor AF 80-200/2,8 D : 258
Nikkor AF VR 80-400/4,5-5,6 ED : 268
Nikkor F 200/4 : 246 (front) 194 (rear)
Nikkor AiS Micro 200/4 : 288
Nikkor Medical 200/5,6 : 245
Nikkor lenti addizionali Medical 200/5,6 : 224
Nikkor AF 300/2,8 ED : 322
Nikkor Reflex 500/8 new : 216
Nikon TC-301 (moltiplicatore 2x) : 218
@@feralfpv3768Where did you get your lenses from, the Chernobyl collection?
The Tamron 15-30mm f2.8 VC G2 is optically unmatched unless you need an easy filter solution. This is one of the lenses that keeps me on F mount. And f4 is absolutely fine for landscape work.
I agree with the F4 comment, especially with newer sensor technology advancements. I also did buy a Tamron 17-28mm before the 14-30mm but the autofocus was incompatible with the FTZ adaption to my camera (the newer versions are compatible). I will check out the 15-30mm, thanks for the tip.
Years ago, I had a 20mm f/3.5 Nikkor lens that I replaced with a faster 24mm f/2 Nikkor and a wider 18mm f/3.5 lens.
I later upgraded to a 14-24mm f/2.8 Nikkor auto focus zoom lens.
Lense is apparently the Australian spelling for lens ?
Sorry I actually always called it a lense and not lens. You are correct, I can't change the video now but will moving forward. Thanks.
lens not lense.
Yes I have had a couple of comments on this now and have corrected this in the title and description. Thank you.