Nikkor 18-35mm Lens

Staff · Issue 10, Dec/Jan 2002 · pp. 11–13

Products mentioned: Nikkor 18-35mm f3.5-4.5 D IF lens, Nikkor 105mm Micro lens, Nikkor 60mm Micro lens, Sigma 14mm Rectilinear lens, Nikkor 16mm Fisheye lens, Nikkor 24mm lens, Nikkor 17-35mm f2.8 lens, Subal F4 housing, Subal DPSWB dome port, Subal DPFE Fisheye dome, Subal EXR40 extension ring, +4 diopter

“A poor tradesman blames his tools” Does anyone remember having this drummed into them as they grew up? I remember and I still continued to blame my tools as an underwater photographer. I began with Nikonos cameras and framers and it seemed to me that every time I found the perfect subject I had the wrong framers on. I even tried only looking for the right subjects but this just never worked the best subjects just didn’t fit. To solve this problem I changed to a housing and prime lenses. This worked well for macro with the Nikkor 105mm Micro. I could photograph from 1:1 through to theoretically through to infinity, in reality about 1:4. When targeting larger fish the Nikkor 60mm Micro lens achieved the same great results. On the shipwrecks or in underwater caves, the lens of choice for me is my ultra wide Sigma 14mm Rectilinear lens which allows me to get really close to big subjects and…