Nikon HS Webmaster wrote:
Yep another one... I just don't know what to make of them.
Are you ready to find out??
I am coming to NY...
Kiu
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Posts: 2140 (12/29/2007 02:58 AM) |
I am coming to NY... Kiu |
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Posts: 2140 (12/30/2007 02:37 AM) |
Look at this picture:
The filter on the left looks like it's still attached to the front filter ring.
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Posts: 2140 (01/04/2008 01:31 AM) |
Since Fred doesn't want anything to do with this, I have to go at it alone!
Soooooo, I took one of my 5cm f2s and tuned the filter ring counterclockwise: 
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Posts: 19 (03/16/2008 01:00 PM) |
Kiu, i have found one of this "no chrome ring" 50 mm F2.
So this is a bluff? Is only a normal 50 mm without chrome ring? i have tryed to remove the chrome ring from one of my 50 mm black but it is very strong attached. There is a particulary 50 mm F2 with removable ring or i have bouth a normal 50 mm black with loosed ring? 
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Posts: 2120 (03/16/2008 11:46 PM) |
Kui I just never kept a 50 f2 to try it on, but I have been saying this all along. Thanks for proving it. On the 50 1.4 the chrome ring is part of the front
lens group and comes out with the glass, on the 50 f2 is it just cemented in (or screwed tightly).
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Posts: 231 (03/17/2008 12:44 AM) |
Hey, I've seen that lens before!
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Posts: 231 (03/17/2008 12:47 AM) |
And that book!!!
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Posts: 19 (03/18/2008 03:35 PM) |
 Lens come to me....
what Kiu says is right. Only a normal 50 mm f2 Hc lens with a not strong glue on the chrome ring!!! My , rare piece, dream is definitively broken
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Posts: 217 (03/27/2008 04:04 AM) |
 Amazing, but still hard to believe. Would have loved to see
sharper pictures.
And do I see reflexion on glass in the filter ring ? Question : why should one take of the filter ring ? This kind of lens is found all over the world, and also without filter ring, so I cannot imagine that one person should have done this work, and sent lenses all over the worldl. Hard to believe also that several people all over the world should have taken of a filter ring and last, but not least, why do we find this kind of "no ring" only on this kind/type of lens, and not on any other lens that has been built the same way ? strange, and I think this is not the answer yet. |
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Posts: 2140 (03/27/2008 11:29 AM) |
I have a simple answer. After 50 years, some of the filter rings become loose and easy to come off, I have three 5cm f2.0s and only the one I demonstrated is loose enough so I can just unscrew the filter ring with hand, the other two are tight and do not come off. Another explanation would be filters! somtimes filter won't come off, and as a result the filter and the filter ring unscrew together, as is evident by the fuzzzy picture of the Nikon SP I saw on ebay and posted here. This is the only lens that has a screw-in filter ring, other 5cm lenses such as the 1.4 have the filter ring as part of the chasis of the lens. The early rigid 5cm f2.0s that are marked Tokyo have a different construction, they seem to have the filter ring like the 1.4s, as you know, none of those have been reported in this variation. Kiu |
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