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Nikon 35mm f/2 on a D90
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Hey all,
My gf gave me her old Nikon 35mm f/2 to try on my D90. It fitted perfectly and auto focused correctly as well. The only thing wrong is that it won’t work on any higher than f number other than 22 regardless of ambient light. The Nikon flashes EEE on one of the settings.
I’ve also noticed the images are a tad contrasty?
Any idea why?
N
Hey Cian,
Nope, I move the aperture ring and try take a photo and get the flashing EEE. It only works for f22.
Is there something on the camera I should be changing?
N
Yes, it should only work with the lens locked on F22 on it’s own aperture ring. The camera will then control the aperture when it fires the shutter. It’s not a manual focus lens I take it from your original post so if it’s not a faulty lens then locking on F22 (there should be a tiny lock switch on the aperture ring) is all you need to do.
Cheers, I’ll have a play tonight.
The actual lense is this one:
http://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/35af.htm
I do indeed :D
If you read the article, he is yammering on about a design flaw that seen alot of these lenses leaking lubricant onto the diaphragm blades. How would I check if this was the case for the gf’s lense (what are diaphragm blades?!). She has definately had it well over 10 years.
Nige
If you look into the back of the lens you’ll see the small hole that light gets through, made of curved metal blades, this is the diaphragm and you might want to check it for obvious spots of oil etc. If one or more of the blades gets stuck you’ll get inconsistent exposures and the background blur (bokeh) will start to look a little rough. You can try opening and closing the blades using a small metal arm that you will see sticking straight out of the inner ring of the lens, around the glass element itself. Just move it gently and the diaphgram will open and close.
Thanks for all your help Cian.
Oh, just one last thing…how do these lenses actually rate?
No problem, almost all the nikon primes are great in the centre, they can vary in the corners for the cheaper lenses and the 35 f2 would be fair in this respect. Stopping down past F4 will improve things in the corners and if you use it for landscape/scenery then you’ll be down past F8 anyway. For dim light at F2 it’s pretty good and you probably wont be too bothered about the sharpness of corners if covering an event or general people shots.
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