Nikon AF Fisheye 16mm f/2.8D Lens

The Nikon AF Fisheye 16mm f/2.8D is a fun lens for film and FX digital cameras. The Nikon AF Fisheye 16 gives a highly distorted 180 degree angle of view from corner to corner on film or an FX camera.

This compact Nikon AF Fisheye 16mm f/2.8D Lens which provides a sweeping 180° field of view was introduced as a surprise entry in 1993. This Nikon AF Fisheye 16 lens, which optically unlike other Nikkor circular format fisheye lenses that produce a circular image surround by black borders, the autofocus Fisheye-Nikkor 16mm f/2.8D lens fills up and stretches the captured image to the entire picture frame diagonally at 180°.

This dramatic visual is often used for producing pictures of exciting, unrealistic image which makes it particularly interesting for many types of applications such as art, architecture, scenic, travel, scientific research or even portraiture photography. - as long as you understand the optical nature of Fisheye lenses and how does the lens behaves.

Commercially, this Nikon AF Fisheye 16mm f/2.8D lens has also been designed to patch some weaknesses found in the earlier manual focus Fisheye-Nikkor lens versions of the similar Full-frame Fisheye Nikkor lens. One of the most significant improvement made was, the new Nikon AF Fisheye 16 lens has finally incorporating a close range optical correction system ("CRC") which was missed out in all those MF full frame Nikkor fisheye models. Although the lens still has a similar optical construction of 8 elements in 5 groups, but optically, the optical arrangement is entirely different from any of the previous versions.

On top of that, this AF Fisheye Nikkor lens was introduced as genetically an AF-D lens. So, when used with modern Nikon AF SLR camera models, distance information used for 3D Matrix Metering or the 3D Multi-Sensor Balanced Fill-Flash will be transmitted instantly from the lens to the camera body.

Nikon AF Fisheye 16mm f/2.8D Lens details:

Focal Length: 16mm
  
Maximum Aperture: 2.8
  
Minimum Aperture: 22
  
Autofocus: Yes

Compatible Format(s):

• FX
• DX
• FX in DX Crop Mode
• 35mm Film

Distance Information: Yes
  
Super Integrated Coating: Yes
 
Internal Focusing: Yes
  
Rear Focusing: No
  
De-Focus Control: No
  
Close Range Correction: Yes
  
Minimum Focus Distance: 0.85 ft. (0.25m)
  
Maximum Angle of View: 180°
  
Lens (Elements): 8
  
Lens (Groups): 5
  
Maximum Reproduction Ratio: 1:10

Dimensions:

2.5x2.2in. (Diameter x Length)
63x57mm (Diameter x Length)
  
Weight: 10.1oz. (280g)
  
Mount Type: Nikon F-Bayonet
  
Accepts Filter Type: Rear Bayonet
  
Lens Case: CL-31s
  
Lens Hood: Built-in