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nikkor Q 135mm
- Thread starter Curt
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Have you seen this Curt? http://www.mir.com.my/rb/photography/companies/nikon/nikkoresources/6070nikkor/telephoto/135mm.htm
You can actually find a more exact date based on the serial number: http://www.photosynthesis.co.nz/nikon/serialno.html#135
Have you seen this Curt? http://www.mir.com.my/rb/photography/companies/nikon/nikkoresources/6070nikkor/telephoto/135mm.htm
You can actually find a more exact date based on the serial number: http://www.photosynthesis.co.nz/nikon/serialno.html#135
JoeLewisPhotography
Senior Member
(Edit, jdeg beat me to it)
Looks like 1959.
Found a pic of the exact lens with the following description here..
http://www.mir.com.my/rb/photography/companies/nikon/nikkoresources/6070nikkor/telephoto/135mm.htm
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Non-Ai [/FONT][FONT=arial, verdana, geneva, helvetica]135mm f/3.5[/FONT][FONT=arial, verdana, geneva, helvetica] Nikkor-Q Auto telephoto lens
One of the earliest batch of Nikkor lenses introduced along with Nikon F in 1959 was a 13.5cm f/3.5 Nikkor-Q Auto telephoto lens. [/FONT][FONT=arial, verdana, geneva, helvetica]Stephen Gandy[/FONT][FONT=arial, verdana, geneva, helvetica] at Cameraquest has a very detailed description of these lenses which he termed them as "Tick-Mark " (??) lenses. As I don't intend to duplicate resources on the network, if you are interested, you may use Stephen's site as the reference for those lenses. All these 135mm lenses have subsequently went through a few rounds of improvement rather than seeing any changes optically where it still stuck to a straight forward 4 elements in 3 groups optical construction.[/FONT]
Looks like 1959.
Found a pic of the exact lens with the following description here..
http://www.mir.com.my/rb/photography/companies/nikon/nikkoresources/6070nikkor/telephoto/135mm.htm
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Non-Ai [/FONT][FONT=arial, verdana, geneva, helvetica]135mm f/3.5[/FONT][FONT=arial, verdana, geneva, helvetica] Nikkor-Q Auto telephoto lens
One of the earliest batch of Nikkor lenses introduced along with Nikon F in 1959 was a 13.5cm f/3.5 Nikkor-Q Auto telephoto lens. [/FONT][FONT=arial, verdana, geneva, helvetica]Stephen Gandy[/FONT][FONT=arial, verdana, geneva, helvetica] at Cameraquest has a very detailed description of these lenses which he termed them as "Tick-Mark " (??) lenses. As I don't intend to duplicate resources on the network, if you are interested, you may use Stephen's site as the reference for those lenses. All these 135mm lenses have subsequently went through a few rounds of improvement rather than seeing any changes optically where it still stuck to a straight forward 4 elements in 3 groups optical construction.[/FONT]
Your lens markings and serial number place the manufacture date somewhere around late 1972-1973. Production of this version ran from 1969-1973, with a serial number range of 865101 - 981870. Since your lens serial number is near the end of the range for this version, I would estimate it was produced in late 1972-early 1973.
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