Nippon Kogaku Nikkor-T 350mm F/4.5
Super telephoto prime lens • Film era • Discontinued • Collectible
- Announced:
- · 1959
- Production type:
- · Small-batch production: 429 (four hundred twenty-nine) units
- Availability:
- ● Sold out
- Country of design:
- · Japan
- Original name:
- · Nippon Kogaku NIKKOR-T 1:4.5 f=35cm
- Class:
- · Slow full-frame super telephoto prime lens
- · Professional model
- System:
- · Nikon S (1947)
Abbreviations
| T | The lens consists of three elements. |
Specification
| Optical design: | |
| 35mm full frame | |
| 350mm | |
| F/4.5 | |
| 3 elements in 3 groups (Cooke triplet) | |
| Nikon reflex housing | |
| 7.1° (35mm full frame) | |
| Diaphragm mechanism: | |
Diaphragm type: | Semi-automatic |
Aperture control: | Aperture ring |
| 9 (nine) | |
| Focusing: | |
| 4m | |
| <No data> | |
Focusing modes: | Manual focus only |
Manual focus control: | Focusing ring |
| Physical characteristics: | |
| 1670g | |
| ⌀95×301.5mm | |
| Accessories: | |
| Series IX | |
| Screw-type round |
Source of data
- Own research.
From the Classic Camera magazine (No. 26, May 2003)
In June 1959, when the Nikon F was already absorbing much of the time and interest of the Nippon Kogaku optics department, three new lenses for the Nikon rangefinder were released. The longest of these was designed for use with a reflex housing and had just three elements with a focal length of 350mm and maximum opening of f/4.5. The 350mm f/4.5 Nikkor T stopped down to f/32, had an all-black finish and utilized 82mm screw filters like the 180mm f/2.5 Nikkor H. Like the latter, it also weighed 1700 grams, but it focused from twice the distance, about four meters.
From the editor
The only Nikon S lens to have a semi-automatic diaphragm.
The lens hood is of 82mm screw-in type and doubles as the Series IX filter holder.
FACTORY PRODUCTION NUMBERS:
- 429 units for the Nikon Prism Reflex Housing.
TOTAL: 429 units.