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[Shutter-Deprived]

I purchased my D700 off of eBay used back in January, and it came with a lens listed as the Nikon 50mm AF "non D version" lens.

 

I didn't care about the lens because I wanted to buy the body and purchase a different lens later.

 

It has Nikon and AF NIKKOR 50mm 1:1.4 text without D or S. I don't know anything about this lens.

 

Here are pictures of it:

 

 

 

The serial# on it is 2049011

 

Can anyone please tell me a bit more about this lens?

 

Thank you!

[Merco_61]

It is the first version of Nikon's fast normal with AF, the serial# is in the middle of production, so late 1988 or early 1989.

Optically, it is identical to the AF-D version still in production but it does not transfer distance information to the body. It has a bit of, easily corrected, barrel distortion and vignettes slightly on FX wide open.

Like all fast lenses it is prone to flare when used without a hood, correct for the lens is a HR-2. If one does not like the rubber hood, a HS-9 works nicely too.

It is a screw-drive lens that won't AF on the crippled mount of modern consumer bodies but the AF on a prosumer or pro body is faster than the AF-S version.

All in all, a nice, dependable workhorse of a lens lens from the F4 era but still good today.