Nippon Kogaku Nikkor-H Auto 28mm F/3.5
Wide-angle prime lens • Film era • Discontinued
- Announced:
- · March 1960
- Production status:
- ● Discontinued
- Country of design:
- · Japan
- Original name:
- · Nippon Kogaku NIKKOR-H Auto 1:3.5 f=2.8cm
- Class:
- · Slow full-frame wide-angle prime lens
- System:
- · Nikon F (1959)
Abbreviations
| H | The lens consists of six elements. |
Model history (5)
| ■Nippon Kogaku Nikkor-H Auto 28mm F/3.5 | A | 6 - 6 | 0.60m | ⌀52 | 1960 ● | |
| ■Nippon Kogaku / Nikon Nikkor-H[·C] Auto 28mm F/3.5 | A | 6 - 6 | 0.60m | ⌀52 | 1968 ● | |
| ■Nikon Nikkor 28mm F/3.5 | A | 6 - 6 | 0.30m | ⌀52 | 1975 ● | |
| ■Nikon AI Nikkor 28mm F/3.5 | A | 6 - 6 | 0.30m | ⌀52 | 1977 ● | |
| ■Nikon AI-S Nikkor 28mm F/3.5 | A | 6 - 6 | 0.30m | ⌀52 | 1981 ● | |
Specification
| Optical design: | |
| 35mm full frame | |
| 28mm | |
| F/3.5 | |
| 6 elements in 6 groups | |
| Nikon F [46.5mm] | |
| 75.4° (35mm full frame) | |
| Diaphragm mechanism: | |
Diaphragm type: | Automatic |
Aperture control: | Aperture ring (Manual settings only) |
| 5 (five) | |
| Focusing: | |
| 0.60m | |
| <No data> | |
Focusing modes: | Manual focus only |
Manual focus control: | Focusing ring |
| Physical characteristics: | |
| 220g | |
| ⌀61.3×42mm | |
| Accessories: | |
| Screw-type 52mm | |
| HN-2 - Screw-type round | |
| <No data> |
Sources of data
- Manufacturer's technical data.
- Nikon for flexibility & versatility booklet.
- Nikon cameras, Nikkor lenses, Nikon accessories booklet.
- The Nikon system of photography booklet (September 1965).
Manufacturer description #1
The widest-angle Nikkor lens available with automatic diaphragm that click-stops to f16. 74 deg. angle of view. Focuses down to 2 feet or 60 cm. Accepts 52 mm screw-in filters. Supplied with plastic case. Leather case supplied on order.
Manufacturer description #2
The widest angle Nikkor lens available with an automatic diaphragm. Covers 3.2X area of a 50mm lens. Features 6-elements. Click-stops to f16. 74° angle of view. Focuses to 24". Accepts 52mm screw-in filters. Couples to Nikon F exposure meter
Manufacturer description #3
Among lenses in the Nikkor Auto group, this lens provides the largest picture angle. Although the lens is of the retrofocus type, coma and distortion are greatly minimized. Precisely corrected spherical aberration of the lens causes no displacement of the focus, which is liable to occur as the aperture is stopped down. Even fully open, it gives a strong contrast and brilliancy. This makes it excellent for panoramic landscapes, snapshots, and architectural and interior photography.
From the editor
For many enthusiast photographers the 28mm focal length is the "standard" wide-angle. The first version appeared in 1960 in the form of the Nikkor-H 28mm f3.5. Despite its modest specification this lens in its various forms provides an excellent performance when used at middle apertures of f5.6 to f8. It received several updates to its cosmetic appearance and lens coating during the late 1960s and through the early 1970s. The first significant change to the optical design appeared in 1977 when the AI standard version was introduced with a larger rear element to counter the effects of vignetting.
Notes
- This non-AI lens was designed for Nikon F, F2, Nikkormat FS, FT, FT2, FTN, EL, ELW 35mm film SLR cameras.
- Non-AI lenses cannot be used on Nikon digital SLR cameras (except for the Df) or late (AI) film SLR cameras. However, non-AI lenses can be fitted to Nikon FM, FE, EL2, F3, F4 and Nikkormat FT3 cameras which used the AI metering system but allowed the metering coupling lever to be disengaged. The F5 could have this mechanism fitted as an optional extra. Non-AI lenses can be also fitted to the Nikon F2A and F2AS cameras because the AI mechanism was fitted to the removable metering prism.
Other wide-angle prime lenses in the Nikon F system
Lenses with similar focal length
Comments (3)
Hello
Thank you so much! it is so hard to get any information on this lens!! Can you tell me if this is a collectable lens today? and is it of any value for one that is in mint condition?
Thank you
It was one of the first lenses released for the Nikon F, Nikon’s first SLR camera, introduced in 1959. However, do not expect people to be willing to part with a large sum of money to get this lens because it is not rare. On eBay, the asking price ranges between 50 and 150 US dollars. It is definitely not collectable.
Nice review. I first got this lens in 1973 for my Nikkormat when I was in High School. I fell in love with the focal length then and it seemed so perfect that it was the only lens I took on my first bike trip in Europe. I’m not sure where I parted with it, but it came back attached to a F2 I bought used last year and I’m glad to be with it again! I love it when a lens pops in and out of my life, similar to my 55 Micro 3.5. , another happy reunion to my digital world with a used Df. It is special when you know a lens so well that it becomes part of your vision of the world.