The Limbo Connection's photos with the keyword: vintage Nikkor lens

Photographed with a Nikon D700 fitted with a Nikkor 50mm f/2 AI lens. This is a wonderful and simple lens with origins as ancient as Stonehenge. I got rid of my 50/1.8 (its successor) because this f/2 version has more soul. It's one of the last in the manufacturing line and has the AI capability, but is basically a cosmetically improved Nikkor-H. Not actually as pretty as the Nikkor-H but just as nice to use.

Photographed with a Nikon D2Xs fitted with a manual 28mm f/2 Nikkor AI lens and a Minolta Close-Up No. 1 supplementary lens.

And now for some photographs revealing what goes on in Limbo Hall. What you see here is the tightening-up, slacking-off, fixing-up, and expletives department HQ. Nikon D700 and Nikkor 50mm f/2 AI lens.

And now for some photographs revealing what goes on in Limbo Hall. Nikon D700 and Nikkor 50mm f/2 AI lens.

During the 1970s amateur photography was dominated by the 50mm lens, partly because that's what came with the new camera you bought, partly because a different or additional lens cost as much as a secondhand car, and mostly because it delivered satisfactory results. You can photograph most things with a 50mm and no 50mm is bad; there are only grades of excellence. This photograph was made with a Nikkor 50mm f/2 on a Nikon D700. It is a modest little thing of quite stupendous resolving ability.

This photograph was made using a Nikon D700 with the 50mm f/2 Nikkor AI. The lens is rather good.

Micro-Nikkor 55mm f/3.5 AI.

Nikon D300s + Micro-Nikkor 55mm f/3.5 AI lens.

Nikon D300s and Nikkor 28mm f/2 AI lens.

Nikon D300s and Nikkor-P 105mm f/2.5 lens. 1/125th wide open. ISO 1600.

Lacock Abbey garden. Nikon D300s and Micro-Nikkor 55mm f/3.5 AI lens.

Nikon D300s and Nikkor 28mm f/2 AI lens.

Nikon D300s and Nikkor 28mm f/2 AI lens.

Nikon D300s and Nikkor 28mm f/2 AI lens.

Botanic Garden, Lacock Abbey. Nikon D300s and Micro-Nikkor 55mm f/3.5 AI lens.

The Tenba P750 appears in the Tenba catalogue for 1980-81. The heavy-duty zip fastener in the lid provides access to spare film. I don't know what the two pods at the front are for but they look cool. I guess the pair of straps on crocodile clips are for carrying your tripod. The fabric is Cordura, a textile so tough that it was known for wearing holes in photographers' trousers. Later versions in the Pro Pak line had a soft pad stuck on the back where the bag would meet the trousers. Nikon D300s and Nikkor 28mm f/2 AI lens. This lens, according to Bjørn Rørslett, is one of a small number of best performing Nikkor lenses. See www.naturfotograf.com/index2.html

Nikon D300s and Micro-Nikkor 55mm f/3.5 AI lens.

Nikon D300s and Nikkor-P 105mm f/2.5 lens.