Product Description

28mm D-Series Wideangle lens for Nikon cameras

Product Details

• Brand: Nikon
• Model: 1922
• Dimensions: .50 pounds

Features

• Compact, lightweight wide-angle lens for general photography
• 74-degree (53-degree with Nikon DX format) picture angle for candids, portraits, and travel photographs
• Nikon Super Integrated Coating for minimized flare and ghost, providing good color balance
• Exceptionally light at only 7.4 ounces
• 0.85-foot close focusing distance

Manufacturer Description
Lens-making is an art--Nikon artisans craft Nikkor optics from the finest materials, taking pride in adding their intellect and technique to bring the world's finest lenses to life. They push the leading edge of lens-making in their effort to provide the "glass" that makes the world's greatest pictures.

AF Nikkor lenses work with Nikon SLRs for optimal performance, even the very latest. The Nikon 28mm f2.8D AF Nikkor is a compact, lightweight wide-angle lens constructed with superb optical design for architecture, wedding and landscape photography. It features 74-degree (53-degree with Nikon DX format) picture coverage with edge-to-edge sharpness. It also weighs an exceptionally light 7.4 ounces and boasts a 0.85-foot close focusing distance.

Nikon Super Integrated Coating ensures exceptional performance
To enhance the performance of its optical lens elements, Nikon employs an exclusive multilayer lens coating that helps reduce ghost and flare to a negligible level. Nikon Super Integrated Coating achieves a number of objectives, including minimized reflection in the wider wavelength range and superior color balance and reproduction. Nikon Super Integrated Coating is especially effective for lenses with a large number of elements, like our Zoom-Nikkors. Also, Nikon's multilayer coating process is tailored to the design of each particular lens. The number of coatings applied to each lens element is carefully calculated to match the lens type and glass used, and also to assure the uniform color balance that characterizes Nikkor lenses. This results in lenses that meet much higher standards than the rest of the industry.

Distance information
D-type and G-type Nikkors relay subject-to-camera distance information to AF Nikon camera bodies. This then makes possible advances like 3D Matrix Metering and 3D Multi-Sensor Balanced Fill-Flash. Note: D-type and G-type Nikkors provide distance information to the following cameras: Auto exposure; F6, F5, F100, F90X, F80, F75, F70, F65, F60, F55, F50, Pronea S, Pronea 600i, D2 series, D1 series, D100 and D70s/D70. Flash control; F6, F5, F100, F90X, F80, F75, F70, D2 series, D1 series, D100, and D70s/D70 cameras.

What's in the Box:
Lens, 72mm snap-on front lens cap, rear lens cap LF-1.

Customer Reviews

Very good, not perfect
The 18-200mm lens on my Nikon D50 already gives very good results at 28mm, even at its widest aperture of f4. Is the 28mm f2.8D worthwhile? Sometimes.
The main attraction of the 28mm to me is for night scenes. If the 18-200mm can acquire an autofocus target, it can focus accurately. If it can't, the distance scale is usually unreliable. The 28mm can be easily dialed to infinity, and that setting will be accurate. There is also the possibility of using f2.8. This is genuinely useful on the 28mm. There is slight vignetting and very slight softness, but it still performs well to the corners at f2.8. Stopping down to f3.2 eliminates the softness, and vignetting is gone by f4.
Night scenes can be a challenging test of lens flare. The 18-200 is not bad for a superzoom, but the 28mm does better.
A prime focus lens should be nearly perfect, but the 28mm falls a bit short of that. There is mild barrel distortion. (The 18-200 shows slight pincushion at 28mm.) In my challenging chromatic aberration subject, the 28mm shows a little red and cyan fringing. The 18-200mm shows purple fringing in the same scene.
The 28mm f2.8D will autofocus with the D50/80/200/300. Switch the camera to manual focus, and it can manual focus. With a D40/60 it is manual focus only.
My 28mm, which I bought from Amazon, comes with a 1 year Nikon U.S.A. warranty and 4 years extended service protection.
Here's a catch on the extended service protection: To get it you must mail in the Lens ESC Registration card within ten days of purchase.