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The VoigtlГ¤nder Color-Skopar 21mm 4.0 is a lens from the turn of this century. They all have their quality but they are from very different upbringings.

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So I thought it best to treat it right and that meant treat it to a full range of lenses.

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My Leica II is extra special to me, because the serial number is one digit away from my date of birth. A Leica II from the very first batch, from February 1932. Lenses for the one LTM mount camera that I kept. But I haveВ to admit that on a lot of occasions I get better results with an SLR than with an M-mount Leica and selling my M mount lenses freed up a lot of money that was invested in other camera gear, in film scanners, in film, in paper, and of course in more lenses. Of course, a huge array of excellent lenses is designed for the M-mount system and those cannot be used on the screw mount Leica that Oskar Barnack designed. It lacks a selftimer too, and how often do you need one anyway? It is small, pocketable, its 1/500th top speed is enough to shoot 400 ASA film with the вЂSunny 16вЂ™ approach. It has no slow speeds, which mostly are unusable with a handheld camera. With its higher-contrast yellow 100% rangefinder, the Leica II can be focused with both eyes open. But, what are nice screw mount lenses to use with that Oscar Barnack designed camera? I loved them all but in the end I had to admit that one model really stole my heart due to its unprecedented simplicity: the early Leica II. Lens shown above is a Nikkor-P Auto 600mm f/5.6 P.Over the years I shot many Leica cameras.

Lenses modified with a CPU is also considered a AI-P lens. In total Nikon only made three AI-P lenses., Nikkor 500mm f/4P, Nikkor 45mm f/2.8P and Nikkor 1200-1700/5.6-8P.

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Nikon AI-S manual focus lenses fitted with aД¬PU (CPU marked with red arrow) to allow Matrix metering with early Nikon Dslr's Nikon AI-P or P lenses, introduced in 1988. Nikon AF Lenses are still AI-S lenses, but it is uncommon to call a Nikon AF lens AI-S. Usually AI-S lenses are more expensive, without any gain in performance. This grove is only used by a few cameras like: Nikon FA,FG, N2020/F501, N2000/F301 and F4. AI-S( Aperture Indexing Shutter system) AI-S lenses is identical to AI lenses except for a small grove marked by the red arrow. Will mount on 99% of Nikon camera since Nikon F. AI( Automatic Aperture Indexing) lenses have a grove milled in the aperture ring (marked by arrow and red outline).

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Some times there are certain serial numbers of lenses that can and can't be mounted. Some of these can be mounted to any of the Nikon Dslr cameras on the market, you have to check the manual for your camera to figure out which ones.

What all these AI* lenses have in common is that they don't have the meter coupling prong. There is also other AI* lenses, like the PC-Nikkor 35mm f/2.8 and the Medical-Nikkors. The lens pictured here is the Reflex-Nikkor 500mm f/8. These are lenses that fall between the Pre-AI and the AI lenses. They can also be identified by the serial number on the lens. Lenses that has been converted to AI' d with a Nikon conversion kit look identical to AI lenses, and can usually be identified by - screws instead of + screws. Also note that there was not made a conversion kit for all of the Pre-AI lenses.

These are no longer being made, and are quite rare to find. There is two different modifications, one being the classic DIY(do it yourself) modification(to convert a lens to AI'd it's necessary to mill away some of the metal on the aperture selector, marked by red arrow and outlined, this is not necessary on Nikon D40(x) or D60 Dslr's), the other option is to get a hold of a conversion kit from Nikon. This is lenses modified to fit AI cameras. Mounting a Pre-AI lens on any of these and you might damage the camera. Will not mount to any of Nikon's Pro Dslr's. Nikon Pre-AI / Non-AI(originally called Nikon F lenses) introduced in 1959.ДЄperture ring marked with red arrow is intact.