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<blockquote data-quote="Blue439" data-source="post: 826577" data-attributes="member: 53455">Recent lens, old hoodEven though it looks (on purpose!) a lot like an old Nikkor lens, this is a modern-day Voigtländer Nokton 58mm ƒ/1.4 lens, manufactured in Japan by Cosina, with the full approval of Nikon Corp.It is an amazing and wonderful little lens designed for Nikon’s F-mount, which I used on DSLRs, more rarely since I moved to mirrorless. Its optical quality is splendid.I shot it next to an old metal Nikon HS–6 lens hood, designed in the mid–1970s for the Nikkor 50mm ƒ/1.4 that came with my F2 body. It also fits the ƒ/2 version of the nifty fifty, which I had on my very first Nikon F from the early 1970s, when I was in high school, because in those days, Nikon engineers were clever enough to design many lenses (not just a few) with standardized hood and filter diameters, and 52mm was the most widely used. The Voigtländer and Cosina people were also clever enough to keep that filter and hood dimension when they designed this recent Nokton...Nikon D850, Micro-Nikkor 105mm, ƒ/2.8 G VR macro lens. Gitzo tripod, Arca-Swiss Cube C1 geared head. Flash lighting. Single exposure.[ATTACH=full]412593[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Blue439, post: 826577, member: 53455"] [B]Recent lens, old hood[/B] Even though it looks (on purpose!) a lot like an old Nikkor lens, this is a modern-day Voigtländer Nokton 58mm ƒ/1.4 lens, manufactured in Japan by Cosina, with the full approval of Nikon Corp. It is an amazing and wonderful little lens designed for Nikon’s F-mount, which I used on DSLRs, more rarely since I moved to mirrorless. Its optical quality is splendid. I shot it next to an old metal Nikon HS–6 lens hood, designed in the mid–1970s for the Nikkor 50mm ƒ/1.4 that came with my F2 body. It also fits the ƒ/2 version of the nifty fifty, which I had on my very first Nikon F from the early 1970s, when I was in high school, because in those days, Nikon engineers were clever enough to design [I]many[/I] lenses (not just a few) with standardized hood and filter diameters, and 52mm was the most widely used. The Voigtländer and Cosina people were also clever enough to keep that filter and hood dimension when they designed this recent Nokton... Nikon D850, Micro-Nikkor 105mm, ƒ/2.8 G VR macro lens. Gitzo tripod, Arca-Swiss Cube C1 geared head. Flash lighting. Single exposure. [ATTACH type="full"]412593[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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