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Rent NowThe Nikon AF Nikkor 28mm f/2.8 is a compact, versatile wide-angle prime lens designed for Nikon F-mount cameras, well suited to landscape, travel, street, and documentary photography. Its balanced wide-angle field of view avoids the extreme edge distortion typical of ultra-wide optics, making it a practical everyday lens for environmental portraits and general-purpose wide shooting.
Optically, the lens is built from 5 elements in 5 groups, offering a maximum aperture of f/2.8 that balances a compact, lightweight form factor with dependable low-light performance and enough depth-of-field control to separate subjects from busy backgrounds. A 7-blade diaphragm contributes to the lens’s pleasing bokeh quality, and the minimum focusing distance extends to approximately 0.3m (about 0.85 ft. on later versions), giving photographers useful close-focusing flexibility for a wide-angle prime.
Autofocus is driven by Nikon’s screw-drive mechanism, powered by a focus motor built into the camera body rather than an internal AF motor within the lens itself, meaning autofocus will only function on Nikon camera bodies equipped with a built-in focus motor; bodies lacking this feature, such as the D3000-series, D5000-series, D40, D40X, and D60, will require manual focus with this lens. This is consistent with Nikon’s traditional AF lens designs from before the widespread adoption of internal AF-S motors.
Build quality includes a lightweight composite barrel construction with a metal Nikon F-mount bayonet, along with a manual focus ring, aperture control ring with click stops, and a distance scale window, keeping the lens compact and easy to carry for everyday use. The lens accepts a standard 52mm filter thread, allowing straightforward compatibility with polarizers, ND filters, and other common lens accessories.
As an FX-format lens, the AF Nikkor 28mm f/2.8 delivers its full field of view on Nikon full-frame F-mount bodies while producing an effective 42mm equivalent field of view on Nikon DX-format APS-C cameras, and it also remains compatible with traditional 35mm Nikon autofocus film SLR bodies.
Key Features
– 28mm f/2.8 wide-angle prime lens for Nikon F-mount
– 5 elements in 5 groups optical construction
– 7-blade diaphragm
– Screw-drive autofocus (requires camera body with built-in focus motor)
– Minimum focusing distance of approximately 0.3m
– 52mm filter thread
– Lightweight composite barrel with metal F-mount bayonet
– Compatible with Nikon full-frame (FX), APS-C (DX), and 35mm film SLR bodies
