Nikon AF Nikkor 28 mm f/ 2.8 (II) Lens

Low price, small, lightweight, autofocus and electronic aperture control.

Weaknesses:

Poor build quality, metal mount but the rest is made of plastic.

Loose focusing ring and small focus throw, difficult to use in manual.

Too few DOF marks.

Poor border image quality at all apertures. Barrel distortion.

Comments:

It is a small and very cheap made prime lens by Nikon, it has autofocus and electronic aperture control, but has nothing to do with previous Nikon Ai-S lenses.

The Nikkor 28mm f/2.8 Ai-S I own outperforms this lens in any regard, except aufocus and electronic aperture control of course.

Modern Nikon DSLR have no correction profiles for this lens. Nikon software also do not includes the correction profile for this lens. Use Darktable instead.

If you want to use this lens manually, forget it, the focusing ring is loose and has a short focus throw that makes it difficult to use. I you like to use zone focusing techniques you will not like this lens too, the value prior to inifinty is 2 meters and it has few DOF marks, less marks than the Ai-S cousin.

In order to get the best results start closing the aperture to f/8, if you need something better go for the Nikon Nikkor 28mm f/2.8 Ai-S o Ai instead.

But not everything is negative, it is a cheap autofocus prime lens, that is the point.

Other cheap option is the Tamron 28mm f/2.5 Adaptall-2 bundled with an Adaptall-2 to Nikon F Ai-S adapter. The Tamron has smoother focusing ring, better build and smaller. Optically the Tamron is a bit better.