Random Bits from Boredom

This is a short Dunning-Kruger tale about an attempted repair of a Nikkor AF-D lens that was misreporting its max aperture and somehow killi...

The 105mm macro lens has its origins in the 1960s and 1970s with the legendary 55mm macros and eventually deliverying its 105mm f/4 and f/...

Tokyo and Hong Kong were once a great place for hunting vintage Nikkor lenses but over the last few years this status seems to have shifted ...

Japan still seems to be a treasure trove for vintage Nikon cameras and Nikkor lenses but it may not be the same level of surplus that it onc...

Many new comers exploring Nikkor's vintage F-mount AI/AI-S lineup are usual presented with the same set of legendary lens, but its often...

Preparing various images of different sizes for a standardised dsiplay can be hugely time consuming and manual. How can we be lazy about t...

When discussing short Nikkor telephotos or classic portrait lenses, a number of lenses come to mind: the 105mm f/2.5 AI-S and the 85mm f/1...

The 28mm f/3.5 has a long history reaching back to 1960, with the Auto-H, and cumulating in the Nikkor 28mm f/3.5 AI/AIS of the late 70s/ea...

The 135mm f/2.8 AI was produced from the 1977 - 1981 and lived in the shadow of its faster f/2 sibling and also had competition from the 105...

Getting into macro photography has its challenges, typically given the need for a suitable lenses. However, there is another option with re...

The Nikkor 20mm f/4 AI (and its near identical predecessor, the K ) was the optical successor to the very well regarded Nikkor-UD 20mm f/3.5...

Macro photography is a game of millimeters. When you are shooting at 1:1 magnification, the depth of field is so thin that eve...

The general guidance for vintage Japanese lens repair is to use JIS drivers to avoid stripping the screw heads so what and how many do we ne...

The Micro Nikkor 55mm f/3.5 series of lens has had a long history with the first iteration arriving in 1961 and lasted nearly 20 years with...

I've loved this lens for a while now for its a ability to resist flare like no other vintage Nikkor I've used, but I've put off...

Rick Housh's archived Geocities Lens hood page was the bible for helping us finding the right lens hood for our vintage Nikkors - whils...

The 35mm focal length was a classic "candid" lens, for street photography/photojournalism etc but for me it was always a compromis...

The 50mm f/1.4 AI and its optical formula was inheritted by its successor and beyond which meant it was in production from the late 70s to ...

Having serviced and owned a number of Nikkor 50mm I asked myself how many 50mm do we actually need ? It turns out that just one more in the...

Helicoid grease is a specialist item that is difficult to source and suitable options are limited. Even with options, the lens manufacturer...