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Nikon 20mm f/4 Ai : Specifications and Opinions



Nikon 20mm f/4 Ai


The Nikon 20mm f/4 Ai is a wide-angle lens for FF and APS-C, manufactured from 1974 to 1978 (discontinued). The focus is done by Manual Focus, it does not have image stabilization. The average price was 130 €;
8 users have given it an average vote of 10.0 out of 10.




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Specifications
Focal lenght20 mm
Angle of view94.5°
FormatFF, APS-C
Max. aperturef/4
Aperture blades7
Lenses/Groups 10 elements in 8 groups
Min. focus distance0.30 meters
Reproduction ratio0.09x

Features
StabilizationNo
FocusManual Focus
Internal FocusNo

Built and notes
Tripod ringNo
ExtendersNo
Filters52 mm
Lens hoodYes (not supplied)
Weather sealingNo
Weight210 g
Dimensions63 x 47 mm

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avatarjunior
sent on 01 Aprile 2022

Pros: Excellent quality and compactness, fits comfortably in your pocket. It is a relatively "easy" goal, because it is little affected by the typical problems of pushed wide angles. After 46 years it looks like a bit new!

Cons: Nothing.

Opinion: I have owned this lens since 1976 (including its beautiful removable metal hood). He gave me great satisfaction photographing on film. When I went digital, initially with the APS-C format, I stopped using it. I took it back about two years ago, as I abandoned the APS-C for the FF. It gave me excellent results, both with the Nikon df and with the D800. Given the great depth of field, the lack of AF is not a handicap. It is a great complement to the 24-120 f4 because, with little bulk it is little weight, it allows you to push a little more on the wide angle. In certain situations, such as when the sun or other strong light sources enter the frame, I prefer it to AF D 14 2.8 because it provides images almost immune to ghosts and flares.

avatarjunior
sent on 02 Dicembre 2021

Pros: Lightness, compactness, sharpness

Cons: Nothing, except the unobtainable hood

Opinion: It's a small tank. For those who shoot in analog is a sword, on digital gives excellent results with a vintage look; obviously you can not ask for the same performance as a 20mm Z or Af-S. The Nikon HN-14 dedicated hood is nowhere to be found, but since it resists the flare very well, you can also do without it.

avatarjunior
sent on 17 Settembre 2018

Pros: Lightweight, compact, sharpness that does not fear comparisons with modern lenses

Cons: So small that sometimes I don't see it and I forget it at home

Opinion: Mounted on a modern FF, and maybe with the battery grip, it looks like a boil in an elephant's face! But what a blade! What I have is an AI of 1977 bought for two lire along with other lenses and an old SLR and I always carry it behind. If, like me, you have the good fortune to find him in some used market, do not let him escape! Below is a picture of me made to the flowering of Castelluccio made with this little gem-in fact it is an HDR, so not entirely truthful about the actual performance, but an idea you can do..

avatarsenior
sent on 02 Dicembre 2017

Pros: extremely compact and light, clear at the most closed diaphragms, absence of distortion

Cons: nothing special, maybe f4 could be sharper, but in short .....

Opinion: I have since 1976 and I use it even now with D800.rnOttica really tiny but very "powerful", produces beautiful images sharp and well contrasted, especially if you can close a bit ', also f22 without holding apparently diffrazione.rnGood resistance against the light, even if some beautiful Christmas tree produces it.rnThe fact of going unnoticed is a dote formidabilern

avatarsenior
sent on 03 Novembre 2013

Pros: The 20mm F4, and a lens of excellent quality, has made uniform between the center and the edges, especially on common diaphragms, F5, F11 to 6, with no peaks but very homogeneous, which for a wide-angle and 'important. Another strength of the F4, and 'step standard Nikon 52mm filters, so weight and size, are very low, like a 50mm. Price, as lens quality, accessible.

Cons: The lens hood giant, has pushed a contrast, and vignetting contained on film, but because of the architecture of the digital sensors a little 'vignette, especially on FF, but then easily correctable. Of course not 'a AF, but in my opinion, the wide angle is not' so important.

Opinion: The lens was put into production in 1974, and remained on the market for only four years, two years and two F bayonet type AI, many specimens (like mine) are modified for the new F AI cameras, outputs in those years. This lens begins a new course of the history of Nikon optics has on his shoulders the legacy of the famous "frying pan" 20mm F3, 5, legendary at the time, but now buyers require more modern lenses and read, but quality, and two do not go hand in hand. Pero '20mm F4 still has a very good quality, as I said before, his strength and' uniformity in yield between the center and edges, especially the common working diaphragms, F5, F11 to 6, with no peaks, but very homogeneous, which in my opinion on a wide angle and 'important. In fact, after this F4, F3 un'altro20mm doors, 5, but it was not appreciated by the yield mediocre at the edges, but then every era has its own way of thinking about surrender. I used this lens with the FM2 and also with F100, and the result was really excellent, now use the D700, I've got to try it well, but that pocor that I used, I was satisfied. Today with digital, many prefer optical contrast, keep in mind, that at the time the contrast was used to mask the flaws, a lack of clarity, in fact if you feel the optics are all Russian contrast, the optical Leitz old school, year high risolvenza and contrast medium (but very microcontrast = separation of tonality, what goals can only be reached with a few lenses but with high transmittance). All the best, Nicholas

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