12/7/2022 0 Comments Early nikkor lens serial numbers![]() I have a SW120 in the 700400 serial | a W 180mm at 731500 serial | a SW 90mm in the 700300 serial and am looking at a 800600 series Nikkor W 135mm right now. If anyone does have any information about Nikkor Serial Numbers, please let me know. My Nikkor-AM*ED 120mm 1:5.6 is in serial range 182300 by the way. I tried the same ratio with a Nikon W210mm 5.6 and had to do a reshoot with the AM120mm because the sharpness was unacceptable at 1:1. I have one of the 120mm AM*ED copy lenses and remember doing 2:1 and 1:2 reproductions on Ektachrome 64 in the 1980s with it. And Nikon had a special purpose 120 AM/ED Nikon for the duplicating market only 15mm away from the W135mm on EBay. I see no difference in outside dimensions of the 135mm. Especially if Nikon's lens guru doesn't even know. I'm not sure one Nikkor W300mmD or Mikkor W135mmD out of the run got designed with APO glass while all the others got "regular glass." It may have a higher tolerance, or may be "exactly 300mmm instead of 302mm, but that's all speculation. I think the 75mm lens Bob refers to, is an APO design and then there is additional D and R marks. Why did they switch from R to D? They never said.You spell "Reproduction" with an R in both German and English, so you'd think that was abetter letter. First there was the 75mm Apo Rodagon R and now there is the 75mm Apo Rodagon D. ![]() It sounds like they did the same thing Rodenstock did. To quote another interesting Nikkor thread that eventually became a testing/resolution argument: There is also endless information in the March 1998 B&H Photography Sourcebook (pages 233-235) ![]() ![]() ![]() So please add any additional insight and history to this thread, it will be much appreciated! We'll see how long it lasts, I'll host it as long as I can. So I am posting a link to it here in June 2018. I had a copy of the 2004 PDF of the Nikkor Large Format Lens brochure. There are a few previous threads with some good info but nothing comprehensive, and nothing covering serial numbers. Since Nikon is no longer making LF lenses I thought it would be helpful to have a spot for some reference information about the lenses here on the forum. I have been a long-time Nikkor LF lens user and still make my living with mostly Nikkor LF glass. ![]()
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