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D800E with Nikon AIS lenses

felix5616

Member
I would like to hear from anyone that is using Nikon AIS wide angle lenses with their Nikon D800E cameras. I am interested in the 18mm, 20mm, 24mm and 35mm lenses. Looking for info on edge and center sharpness.
 

Steen

Senior Subscriber Member

I'd prefer to give you some illustrations rather than info .-)



I showed some AI-S Nikkor 20mm shots here (post # 48 - 51 at different ISO values)

http://forum.getdpi.com/forum/nikon/35804-nikon-d800-first-blush.html#post401511



and here again AI-S Nikkor 20mm (post # 431)

http://forum.getdpi.com/forum/nikon/35804-nikon-d800-first-blush-9.html#post404634



and here the Voigtländer 20mm (post # 286)

http://forum.getdpi.com/forum/nikon/34666-what-lenses-d800-6.html#post408940



here the AI-S Nikkor 20mm and the Voigtländer 20mm side by side (post # 291)

http://forum.getdpi.com/forum/nikon/34666-what-lenses-d800-6.html#post409283



and here again the Voigtländer 20mm (post # 12)

http://forum.getdpi.com/forum/nikon/38653-zeiss-21mm-nikon-14-24mm.html#post433353



I don't know if you are interested in the Voigtländer at all, but at least it is a manual focus AI-S type lens too.
 

GrahamWelland

Subscriber & Workshop Member
Nikon 24/2 AIS didn't work that well other than for creative uses. My personal experience even at f/8 was that whilst you could achieve reasonable centre sharpness, the corners were pretty soft and smeary.

The only example I have with it was a night image where frankly it didn't matter. You can probably see the difference in the bottom left corner even at this size (and behind my sig).

I traded it against a Zeiss ZF.2 25/2 which I'd shot previously and was far superior generally. That said, I'm sure that for portraiture the corner performance probably doesn't matter a jot and the drawing of the lens might well be very suitable for that purpose. The Zeiss is much sharper across the frame, including on centre.

Nikon 24/2 AIS - Nikon D800 full spectrum / no OLPF




 
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kuau

Workshop Member
I tried the 20,24,28 and 35mm AIS lenses. all shot at f5.6-F8, Good in the center but bad corner smear.
Though if I shot them Vertical and used a 5:4 crop which I like for vertical images I guess they are not bad, but for landscape orientation 3:2 forget about it....
I ended up returning all of the.
I ended up with a Zeiss 25/2.8, Zeiss 35/2, Zeiss 50/2
 
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