Photos Of X-Rayed Lenses [Collection]
Nov 25, 2013
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Some people get off from watching naked ____ (fill as you desire). Photographer Guy Viner gets his fix by watching naked lenses. Just his luck that he is also a talented X-Ray technician giving him access to the special camera needed to fulfill his desire.
While we’ve all see illustrations of the internals of lenses, Guy’s work shows the internal glass elements, gears, levers and CPUs that make up a lens.
Guy has worked over recent years and collected a nice collection of both classic and new lens p0rn:
Nikon 105mm f/2.8G ED-IF AF-S VR
Nikon 18-105mm f/3.5-5.6 AF-S DX VR ED (@18, @105)
Nikon 35mm f/1.8G AF-S DX
Soligor C/D 80-200 (@80, @200)
Sigma 10-20mm f/4-5.6 EX DC HSM
Tamron BBAR Multi C. 28mm f2.8
Topman 28-80 (@28, @80)
Helios 44-2 58mm
Nikon 35-105 (@35, @105)
Old Russian Lenses
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This is we really don’t know, and were hoping for your help in idendifying. It is an old lens, probably 2.8 which with an F mount (Nikon). If you know, or think you know where it came from help us out.
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Guy Viner is a conceptual photographer based in Carmiel, Israel. You can follow his (Hebrew) musing here and his art on 500px
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10 responses to “Photos Of X-Rayed Lenses [Collection]”
For the last one, do you have a photo of the logo?
probably a 20mm 2.8 nikkor
Can’t be anything less than about 45mm: the front element is convex. Anything shorter than 45mm would need to be a retrofocus construction, with the front element concave.
The last one might look like a nikkor 28mm f3.5 ais. Just look at the small element in the back!
i think 20mm 2.8 nikkor
last lens is definitely a “D style lens, I’m guessing 20mm f2.8d
I’ve searched through the images of Nikon lenses here:
http://www.photosynthesis.co.nz/nikon/specs.html
and I’ve not been able to find a manual focus lens with 5 or 6 elements that has a front that looks like that.
This may not be a Nikon lens, but a third party lens in F-mount.
If the front group consists of only one lens (concave – it’s possible … although at first I thought it was a convex two-lens group), then it is the E 35mm f/2.5. With an overall length of 35mm, the proportions of diameter to length are just about right. (Thanks, JohnH, for the link! )
I have the 20mm 2.8 AF-D and the plastic of the body surrounding the front element is not thinner than the MF grip as in this lens. Also the front element sits much closer to the “edge” of the front of the lens.
Mistery lens…..could be a Nikon Ai 35mm 2.8.
Maybe 28mm 2.8…..Hmmm 50mm 1.8??