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PL mount Nikkor 17-35mm T2.8 - Do you want one?

PL mount Nikkor 17-35mm T2.8 - Do you want one?

  • less than 5000€

    Votes: 50 89.3%

  • not more than 6500€

    Votes: 4 7.1%

  • 8000€

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • 9500€

    Votes: 1 1.8%

  • more.

    Votes: 1 1.8%
  • Total voters
    56
  • Poll closed .
Something about Nikon's 17-35mm f/2.8 CA and purple fringing at wide open (17mm) that I was talking before:

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Nikon 17-35mm f/2.8 at wide open 17mm.

Nikon17-35mm-purpleF.jpg

Detail from the tree blown up 500%.
 
Jeff Kilgroe said:
I would be interested if the price is right... However, I have to say that the RED 18-50 is as good or better than what we'll probably get with the re-housed 17-35.

But let's see who is interested and how much.
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My Red 18-50 isn't very sharp at all when compared to my Zeiss standard primes, but then again primes should be sharper. However, the difference was quite noticable.
 
purple fringing

purple fringing

The purple (blue) fringing is common (with digital capture) in high contrast areas of the frame, the sharper the lens the worse it appears. It also tends to be a much bigger problem near the edges of the frame. It has to do with pixel interpolation, or so I have been led to understand.
 
Hi

I was talking to the Lens tech again. He had time to look into the conversion in detail. He said that it was so much work that even for a small series it would be about 10'000 € (inclunding the lens). So I guess the conversion just became less interesting for most people.

Although the lens has an iris ring it is linked electronically only. So you have to remake the iris movement from scratch.

I noticed that Vantage changed their design on their converted lens. It's now very similiar to the Megarent lens.

Simon
 
I'm still very curious to see if one of these Nikkors rehoused. But have to say that at 10K euro (roughly $16K USD) they don't make a whole lot of sense. :(
 
Maybe I'm thinking of a different application or maybe this has already been covered... But I'm fairly certain that Century Optics converted a 17-35mm still lens (rehoused and PL mounted) several years ago. And as I recall, the final product was less than perfect. The lens displayed a severe image shift while reversing zoom direction and did not repeat focus accurately. This was mostly due to the origin of the lens. A proper conversion is certainly possible. As with most of the discussions on this forum, it comes down to preference and budget. In the end, you get what you pay for.
 
" In the end, you get what you pay for."[/QUOTE]

I think if you paid 10K euros for a converted 17/35 you would be getting a very bad value.
-A
 
If you could get one for $5K US that would be sort of worth while. Although if the Birger mount can deliver on its promise it would be silly to pay even 5K for the century.
Aloha
-A
 
I talked to Vantage today, they told me they did a 17-35 rehouse to PL, but just for their own rental purposes and other rental houses. They are not doing them at the moment, maybe in the next two years and the price would be around 12.000,- Euros.

regards,
martin
 
martinnoweck said:
I talked to Vantage today, they told me they did a 17-35 rehouse to PL, but just for their own rental purposes and other rental houses. They are not doing them at the moment, maybe in the next two years and the price would be around 12.000,- Euros.

regards,
martin
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12,000 EUROS!

Jeeze Peeze, for that I could buy a mill, lathe and surface grinder and make any damn thing I wanted to. lol
 
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