Nikkor 24mm f/2 AIS

Nikkor 24mm f/2 AIS corner at f/5.6
Nikkor 24mm f/2 AIS corner at f/5.6
Nikkor 24mm f/2 AIS center at 100%
Nikkor 24mm f/2 AIS center at f/5.6
Nikkor 24mm f/2 AIS full test image
Nikkor 24mm f/2 AIS full test image

I’ve had this since the Australia trip; is that 1983?  I’d gotten out to 28mm with the Vivitar Series 1 28-90 zoom, and was finding myself using the wide end of that a lot (I’d previously had a 28mm for my Miranda Sensorex, which I never liked and rarely used; I might have had one in the Pentax system too). It’s an old manual-focus lens, but it was thought to be very good at the time.  How will it stand up on modern digital?

These are somewhat cluttered — the wall wasn’t really wide enough (I guess I should have walked in closer really), so there’s stuff overlaying the bricks in the edge shot. Try to ignore the out-of-focus foliage!

And I clearly wasn’t considering this carefully, because I only shot an f/5.6 test of this one.

The results aren’t stellar; definitely soft, even at f/5.6, even in the center. Well, it’s only one test image, perhaps I focused badly or held unsteadily. Or not. On the mental list for consideration.

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