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Nikon 28mm f/2.8 AI-s : Specifications and Opinions

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The Nikon 28mm f/2.8 AI-s is a wide-angle lens for FF and APS-C, manufactured from 1981 (discontinued). The focus is done by Manual Focus, it does not have image stabilization. The average price, when it has been added to the JuzaPhoto database, is 400 €;

32 users have given it an average vote of 9.9 out of 10.

Specifications
Focal lenght	28 mm
Angle of view	75.4°
Format	FF, APS-C
Max. aperture	f/22
Aperture blades	7
Lenses/Groups	8 elements in 8 groups
Min. focus distance	0.20 meters
Reproduction ratio
Features
Stabilization	No
Focus	Manual Focus
Internal Focus	No
Built and notes
Tripod ring	No
Extenders	No
Filters	52 mm
Lens hood	Yes (not supplied)
Weather sealing	No
Weight	250 g
Dimensions	63 x 59 mm
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The following opinions have been automatically translated with Google Translate.

Marzio Iotti

sent on June 22, 2025

Pros: Color rendering, sharpness, minimum focusing distance (unique), mechanical quality, compactness.

Cons: Manual focus only (for my photographic needs it's not a big flaw)

Opinion: It is still an amazing lens today. For build quality and optical performance. I use it on FF both on reflex and mirrorless with adapter. The focus at 20 cm is combined with an internal shift of an optical unit to maintain image quality at close range. It allows you to make beautiful "macros" settings. Nikon has given its best in the design and manufacture of this lens. A jewel for enthusiasts. Too bad that in the Juza database there are no images of the lens.

Flaliv

sent on June 19, 2020

Pros: Sharpness, Construction, Three-dimensionality, Dynamics, Color Yield

Cons: They don't do it anymore

Opinion: I took it 3 years ago from a friend of Juza's for about 100 euros, and I totally fell in love with this lens. A three-dimensionality to be frightening. Unfortunately they stole it from me last year, and I still cry if I think again and if I see the prices of the used... Beautiful color yield, very natural, not too contrasted, with a dynamic rendering on the blacks excellent. A smooth, pleasant ice to use, easy to focus on. On FF is the street lens. On APSC (42) it is very versatile even for portrait and I have pulled out the most beautiful shots I have in memory. Blurred not over-the-c--but incredibly "realistic" and with a cinematic non-sis. Who knows, maybe I speak only out of nostalgia, but as soon as I find it I buy it back, whatever it costs.

Nessunego

sent on March 11, 2020

Pros: Optical yield, size, compactness, build quality, minimum distance maf 20 cm with close range correction, absence of distortion, sharp to ta from edge to edge

Cons: They don't do it anymore. He doesn't have the Af. It's not tropicalized.

Opinion: I was lucky enough to be able to buy it again in 2020 (stock residue). It's a stratospheric optics. It has an impressive sharpness on the edge without optical distortion, even 20 cm from the subject. It is a versatile lens, compact, well built. A great lens for me. It beats only the 28mm f1.4d, but at ta it is not so sharp and does not have the same homogeneity from edge to edge up to f4. And it costs used 2 times this new. If you don't need an af, this is the 28mm to take for Nikon.

Vittorio73

sent on December 31, 2017

Pros: Overall yield, microcontrast and color saturation, excellent sharpness at the center, construction, it behaves very well on low density sensors up to f8 and on very dense sensors up to f5.6.

Cons: Edge sharpness acceptable by f4, start diffraction from f8 to d810.

Opinion: Used mostly for landscapes and street (in hyperfocal) it was a real surprise. An excellent manual focus and well-built at an honest price. It always behaves excellently, giving back crystalline images and colors saturated and well contrasted. On the 36 mpx of the d810 comes to life. Better yield at f5.6, where the edges are good. On dense sensors it is better not to go further, otherwise start diffractive phenomena (already at f8), with a slight drop in sharpness. Vote 9

Robermaga

sent on August 19, 2017

Pros: Sharpness across the entire frame and constant to all diaphragms, "almost" macro, weight, size, construction, old but remarkable colors

Cons: Nobody, except the price in the used, but more than justified.

Opinion: I can not hide that under the 50 this is how it is rendered my preferred optics; I recently took the Sigma 35 Art beyond the focal point, it is completely different as a concept of optics and while being content, if I was forced to throw one from the tower, the Sigma buttered without hesitation. This improper comparison with the latest and very good Sigma 35 is to emphasize its quality. Remarkable in the blur of TA, remarkable in yield in the landscape, remarkable in the absence of distortion, remarkably close at hand thanks to the minimum 20 cm MAF, perhaps its most distinctive feature. I share those who preceded me: if one is lover of the Nikon vintage optics together with the masterpieces 105 2.5 and 180 2.8 ED, this can not be missed, but I also recommend it to the AF only, maybe for "relaxing" And think and who likes the close photo.

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