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Nikon 135mm f/2 Ai : Specifications and Opinions

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The Nikon 135mm f/2 Ai is a tele lens for FF and APS-C, manufactured from 1975 to 1977 (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 100 €;

5 users have given it an average vote of 9.2 out of 10.

Specifications
Focal lenght	135 mm
Angle of view	18.2°
Format	FF, APS-C
Max. aperture	f/2
Aperture blades	9
Lenses/Groups	6 elements in 4 groups
Min. focus distance	1.3 meters
Reproduction ratio
Features
Stabilization	No
Focus	Manual Focus
Internal Focus	No
Built and notes
Tripod ring	No
Extenders	No
Filters	72 mm
Lens hood	Built-in
Weather sealing	No
Weight	860 g
Dimensions	81 x 93 mm
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Timk2

sent on May 08, 2014

Pros: Fastest in class, optics, metal construction

Cons: Very heavy manual focus, very weighty, In built lenshood, rarity

Opinion: Very rare lens from Nikon that has been superceded and replaced by the much more expensive Nikkor 135mm f2 DC, which has de-focus control. Mine is from Ebay and is very old and battered! Whilst probably fine on a tripod in the studio, it is a swine to use in the street, namely the very long and very heavy manual focus, plus the sheer 860g bulk. Get it into focus though and you have great bokeh and a credible and usable wide open performance, which you will probably want to sharpen slightly in editing, as I have done in all the images here on Juza. The lenshood is built-in and only moves out a short way, making it not effective enough. The lens only stops down to f16. Recommended? Probably not - if you can find one at a reasonable price you then have to have carry it about and wrestle with that heavy focus. But for a lens that equates to 202mm f2 on a DX cropped camera, then nothing can really come near, for the price.

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Tzeol

sent on December 11, 2020

Pros: Overall yield really noteworthy: beautiful colors, good contrast and sharpness, great bokeh, compact for focal and opening. An excellent portrait lens!

Cons: The fact that it is not autofocus (but it is not even fair to say it is a defect, it is peculiarity inherent to the optics); A hair of flares and reflections in difficult light conditions.... but really difficult!

Opinion: Wonderful optics. The overall yield is truly, but truly noteworthy. Beautiful colors, excellent bokeh, excellent sharpness and contrast even at full opening. Physically and mechanically it is a pleasure to mount and use it. Very few optics can return such a "massive" feeling. Focusing on aa f 2.0, of course, is quite "delicate" as a task, especially on SLRs. Let's say that I trudge by making at least 3 shots of the same "pose" with very slight advance and retreat of the ring with respect to the point of "hypothesized correct focus". Good there is that there are no calibration problems :-) . A 135 f2, you mean, if AF really has to be adjusted to perfection being really a few cm the PDC. Being suffering from "sfocus" (:-) ) I could not but compare this 135 with the 105 1.8 AiS owned in the past and with the Nikkor 180 2.8 AiS still used by me. The bokeh effect is certainly better here than on 105 1.8: I remember that on that, in some situations, it was a little "nervous" or, in any case, not so particularly pleasant and captivating. The 135 f2 AIS plays it with the 180 2.8 AiS which compensates for the lower aperture with the longer focal length. I dare say that, between the two, perhaps the 180 still remains a pelino above, but it must be remembered that, indoors, a 135 can still be used quietly, and it is therefore more versatile optics, a 180 becomes quite complicated to use it. "Physically", then, I find the 135 much more balanced on the machine: eye, they weigh practically the same, indeed, to be precise, weighs something more even the 135 (!), but being shorter and less bulky, the machine + lens package is much more "firm" with the 135 in front than with the 180 that protrudes significantly further. The various zooms 80 200 and 70 200 2.8, then........... in this sense they are "out of the race". Negatively speaking. I find an 80 200 or a 70 200 so heavy and cumbersome that it can NEVER be preferred to these fixes (105, 135, 180): their "compactness" alone is already a full point in their favor, even before "starting the race" on performance!

Tzeol

sent on December 11, 2020

Pros: Overall yield really noteworthy: beautiful colors, good contrast and sharpness, great bokeh, compact for focal and opening. An excellent portrait lens!

Cons: The fact that it is not autofocus (but it is not even fair to say it is a defect, it is peculiarity inherent to the optics); A hair of flares and reflections in difficult light conditions.... but really difficult!

Opinion: Wonderful optics. The overall yield is truly, but truly noteworthy. Beautiful colors, excellent bokeh, excellent sharpness and contrast even at full opening. Physically and mechanically it is a pleasure to mount and use it. Very few optics can return such a "massive" feeling. Focusing on aa f 2.0, of course, is quite "delicate" as a task, especially on SLRs. Let's say that I trudge by making at least 3 shots of the same "pose" with very slight advance and retreat of the ring with respect to the point of "hypothesized correct focus". Good there is that there are no calibration problems :-) . A 135 f2, you mean, if AF really has to be adjusted to perfection being really a few cm the PDC. Being suffering from "sfocus" (:-) ) I could not but compare this 135 with the 105 1.8 AiS owned in the past and with the Nikkor 180 2.8 AiS still used by me. The bokeh effect is certainly better here than on 105 1.8: I remember that on that, in some situations, it was a little "nervous" or, in any case, not so particularly pleasant and captivating. The 135 f2 AIS plays it with the 180 2.8 AiS which compensates for the lower aperture with the longer focal length. I dare say that, tar the two, maybe the 180 still remains a pelino above, but it should be remembered that, inside, a 135 can still be used quietly, and it is therefore more versatile optics, a 180 becomes quite complicated to use it. "Physically", then, I find the 135 much more balanced on the machine: eye, they weigh practically the same, indeed, to be precise, weighs something more even the 135 (!), but being shorter and less bulky, the machine + lens package is much more "firm" with the 135 in front than with the 180 that protrudes significantly further. The various zooms 80 200 and 70 200 2.8, then........... in this sense they are "out of the race". Negatively speaking. I find an 80 200 or a 70 200 so heavy and cumbersome that it can NEVER be preferred to these fixes (105, 135, 180): their "compactness" alone is already a full point in their favor, even before "starting the race" on performance!

LuaMario

sent on April 17, 2018

Pros: Bokeh, construction, weight, risolvenza, sharpness, neutral colors, three-dimensional image, generates dependence

Cons: Slight softness of the image at room temperature, improves sharply to 2.8, gorgeous from f4

Opinion: Found a prezzaccio in excellent condition, I bought it for the 135 mm focal length, that has always intrigued terribly with 180 mm. In my opinion indeed 85 mm can be definitely useful for a portrait, but I was never able to digest them. I place among the pros: weight is so critical, but balanced that Freehand is that on tripod, acts as a natural mirror vibrations considerably, muffling VR! beautiful colors, neutral, real, in my opinion are very close to those of the zeiss planar (for the shots that I could compare). Being quite rare, it is hard to find.

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