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As many of you know, I love to tinker with lenses. Over the last few years I've taken a wide variety of lenses apart.
Tonight I was adapting a
$1349 Nikkor lens to fit on my K1 camera.
When sanding down the aperture ring I noticed that it was made of flimsy plastic!
I had to be extra careful when handling it so not to accidentally break it.
I believe that most (if not all) of the aperture rings I've seen in the past on Zeiss, Pentax, Sigma, Samyang, and Rokinon lenses were all made of metal.
Not only that, but this lenses' auto-focus motor had broken last September, a common failure with this particular lens.
If other expensive modern Nikon Nikkor lenses are made like this, well, I'm sure glad that I switched over to Pentax a couple of years ago and sold most of my Nikkor lenses.
Last edited by Fenwoodian; 05-02-2017 at 10:59 PM.