Marco Aries

The lens has a plastic body, it weights 240g, it is 58 to 71mm long and it has an external diameter of 67mm, with a 52mm front thread and the from element turns when focusing. The iris has 7 blades, the aperture is clicked and it goes from f3.3 at 35mm or f4.5 at 70mm to f22, without half steps. The focusing ring is textured, it turns 110 degrees and minimum focusing distance is roughly 35cm. The Nikon F mount has a flange distance of 46.5mm.   Adapter: https://amzn.to/3y1dhiP (affiliate link) This little plastic guy is one of the first Nikkor autofocus lenses, specifically the second version of the 35-70 commercialized in 1989. It doesn’t have an internal focusing motor, using instead the screw drive focusing system, meaning that the motor is inside the camera and it couples to the lens via a single screw. It might sound as a bit of a novelty, but I used this lens on the Nikon N70 with the screw drive focusing and it turned out to be much faster than expected and reliable. More abou

The FL mount was introduced in 1964 and replaced in 1971 by the FD mount, but for some reason FL lenses are way less popular than FDs, so obviously I was curious to try it out. I managed to get my hand on this small guy here and I was immediately struck by its build quality, The lens has a metal body, it weights 700g, it is 155 to 175mm long and it has an external diameter of 70mm, with a 58mm front thread and a built in sun hood. The iris had 8 blades, the aperture is clicked and it goes from f3.5 to f22, without half steps. The aperture ring is very narrow and smooth, with the exception of two flanges that help turning it. The focusing ring has a pretty shallow texture, it turns 230 degrees and minimum focusing distance is 2,5 meters. The FL mount has a flange distance of 42mm and uses the same adapters as the FD mount. This lens is big and heavy, yet I didn’t have issues using it handheld. The focusing ring is wide, but I would have preferred a more pronounced texture. Sharpness wid