16mm
f/3.5 Ai
Fisheye-Nikkor
 |
<<< --- The picture at left of the Nikkor Fisheye 16mm f/3.5 lens was a scanned image from a 1978 Nikkor lens marketing leaflet. This is still a f/3.5 version ! It has three interchangeable filters plus one plain glass filter built into the lens barrel. This lens has a serial number bearing 288001. |
Optically, this lens remains the same with earlier version. It still provides a near hemispheric coverage of 170° instead of 180° which provides an extreme wideangle pictures with the dramatic perspective effect inherent in fisheye lenses. A plus point is, this lens is extremely portable, with its size and weight comparable to a normal lens. It has Ai-Specification, an automatic diaphragm which permits the the "newly" introduced thru-the-lens viewing and metering. The lens with an AIcoupling system has the same cosmetic with a pre-AI f/3.5 version which believed was introduced in 1976. This f/3.5 lens was eventually replaced by a faster f/2.8 version (see below) in 1979.
The Fisheye-Nikkor 16mm f/3.5 lens was eventually replaced with another lens with a faster lens speed of f/2.8 in 1979. The Fisheye-Nikkor remained on Nikon product list started from July of 1979 until it was being discontinued in February, 1982, replaced by a Fisheye-Nikkor 16mm f/2.8s version which has an Ai-S coupling system. But whatever the changes is, both series have equivalent design, lens speed and performance except the color of the lens coating. In fact, other than that, you can safely used the Ai-S technical spec sheet appeared on next page as a reference for the older AI Fisheye lens (quite lazy to repeat simialr thing here...so, save some time for other things)
 |
 |
I remembered this lens has a greenish lens coating, as opposed to the pinkish color found in the later Nikkor Ai-S Fisheye lenses upgrade. Note: Production Serial Number for this version was believed to have been started from 188051 for the Ai-Spec f/2.8 lens. 185001 for the subsequent Ai-S version. Source: Nikon Hand Book & Nikon System Hand Book.. |
| Main Index Page | Fisheye Nikkor Lenses
Nikkor Circular Fisheye Lenses: 6mm - f/2.8 | f/5.6 | 7.5mm f/5.6 | 8mm - f/2.8 | f/8.0 | 10mm OP f5.6
16mm Full Frame Fisheye Nikkor: | Nikkor Fisheye 16mm f/3.5 Auto | Nikkor Fisheye 16mm f/3.5 Ai | Nikkor Fisheye 16mm f/2.8 Ai | Nikkor Fisheye 16mm f/2.8 Ai-S | AF-Nikkor Fisheye 16mm f/2.8 D |
| Message Board |
for your
Nikkor
Optics
in a shared environment
| Message Board | Specifically for Dispose or Looking for new/used Nikon/Nikkor photographic equipment
 |
Nippon Kogaku Rangefinder Resources | Nikon F | Nikon F2 | Nikon F3 | Nikon F4 | Nikon F5 | Nikon F6 | Nikkormat / Nikomat | Nikon FM Series | Nikon FE/ FA | Nikon EM/FG/FG20 | Nikon Digital SLRs | Nikon - Other models |
Nikon MF RF-Nikkor lenses for Rangefinder
cameras:-
Main Index Page
Nikon
Auto Focus Nikkor lenses:- Main
Index Page
Nikon
Manual
Focus
Nikkor lenses:-
Fisheye-Nikkor Lenses - Circular |
Full Frame |
Ultrawides Lenses - 13mm15mm18mm20mm |
Wideangle Lenses - 24mm28mm35mm |
Standard Lenses - 45mm 50mm 58mm | Telephoto Lenses
- 85mm105mm135mm180mm & 200mm |
Super-Telephoto Lenses - 300mm 400mm 500mm 600mm 800mm 1200mm |
 |
Special Application
lenses: Micro-Nikkor Lenses - 50mm~55mm -60mm 85mm -105mm 200mm Micro-Zoom 70-180mm Perspective Control (PC) - 28mm 35mm PC-Micro 85mm Dedicated Lenses for Nikon F3AF: AF 80mm f/2.8 | AF 200mm f/3.5 EDIF Depth of Field Control (DC): 105mm 135mm Medical Nikkor: 120mm 200mm Reflex-Nikkor Lenses - 500mm 1000mm 2000mm Others: Noct Nikkor | OP-Nikkor | UV Nikkor 55mm 105mm | Focusing Units | Bellows-Nikkor 105mm 135mm Nikon Series E Lenses: 28mm35mm50mm100mm135mm | E-Series Zoom lenses: 36~72mm75~150mm70~210mm |
MF Zoom-Nikkor Lenses: 25~50mm | 28~45mm | 28~50mm | 28~85mm | 35~70mm | 36~72mm E | 35~85mm | 35~105mm | 35~135mm | 35~200mm | 43~86mm | 50~135mm | 50~300mm | 70~210mm E | 75~150mm E | 80~200mm | 85~250mm | 100~300mm | 180~600mm | 200~400mm | 200~600mm | 360~1200mm | 1200~1700mm
Tele-Converters: TC-1 | TC-2 | TC-200 | TC-201 | TC-300 | TC-301 | TC-14 | TC-14A | TC-14B | TC-14C | TC-14E | TC-16 | TC-16A | TC-20E
Recommended links to understand more technical details
related to the Nikkor F-mount and production Serial Number:
http://rick_oleson.tripod.com/index-153.html by: my
friend, Rick Oleson
http://www.zi.ku.dk/personal/lhhansen/photo/fmount.htm by: Hansen,
Lars Holst
http://www.mir.com.my/rb/photography/hardwares/nikonfmount/lens2.htm
http://www.photosynthesis.co.nz/nikon/serialno.html
Recommended Reading Reference on Nikon cameras and Nikkor lenses | about this photographic web site
 |
| Back | Main Index Page of Nikkor Resources | Back | Main Index Page of Pictorial History of Nikon SLRs |
 |
Home - Photography in Malaysia |
Co-developed
with my web buddy, Rick Oleson® & 
Denmark, Creator of the Nikon
Repair Group Mailing-List;
A
contributing effort to Michael Liu's Classic Nikon SLRs and
Nikkor optic site.
Credit: MCLau®, who has helped to rewrite
some of the content appeared this site. Chuck Hester® who has been helping
me all along with the development of all these Nikon websites; Lars Holst Hansen, 'Hawkeye'
who shares the same passion I have; Ms Rissa, Sales manager
from Nikon Corporation Malaysia for granting permission to use some of the official
content; Ted Wengelaar, Holland
who
has helped to provide many useful input relating to older Nikkor lenses; Some of the references
on production serial numbers used in this site were extracted from Roland Vink's website; Hiura Shinsaku from Nikomat
Club Japan. Lastly,
to all the good people who has contributed their own expeience, resources or kind
enough granted permission to use their images of their respective optic in this site.
It is also a site to remember a long
lost friend
on the Net. Note:certain content and
images appeared in this site were either scanned from official marketing leaflets
& brochures published by Nikon and/or contribution from surfers who claimed originality
of their work for educational purposes. The creator of the site will not be responsible
for may discrepancies arise from such dispute except rectifying them after verification. "Nikon", "Nikkormat", "Nippon Kokagu
KK"
& "Nikkor" are registered
tradename of Nikon Corporation Inc., Japan. Site made with an Apple IMac.