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Stripping Nikkor 43-86mm stuck glasses

Started Feb 2, 2022 | Discussions thread
ProfHankD
ProfHankD Veteran Member • Posts: 9,147
Re: Stripping Nikkor 43-86mm stuck glasses

sssboa wrote:

I never understood these graphs.

MTF graphs? Pretty simple. They plot % contrast, typically looking at an image of either 10 or 30 line pairs per mm. Here's a decent walk through.

There were no elements concave on both sides.

That would be very surprising. They might not be very concave, but I'd expect at least one such element in a zoom like this....

This is great lens btw, there are many iterations of it, the first one that I also have was not good by today standards, the next ones are good at least. I don't agree with most reviewers on most lenses and cameras, sorry.

You might be alone in that opinion on the 43-86mm... which even Nikon seems mildly ashamed of.    That said, the later versions were markedly less bad than the original. They still didn't compete well against the competition in the late 1970s and 1980s. That doesn't mean they are unusable or that you can't make good photos using them....

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