Noct Nikkor 1,2/58mm

The Noct-Nikkor 58mm f/1.2 is a special lens made for night-time photography. The "special" part comes from an aspherical glass element to combat sagittal coma flare* and spherical aberration which is a common problem with fast normal lenses. The normal way to fight this is to stop down the lens. Since the Noct-Nikkor was corrected for sagittal coma flare and spherical aberration it is possible to shoot with a much wider aperture and hand-held shooting is possible with very little visible distortions to the image corners. The Noct-Nikkor 58mm f/1.2 was manufactured in a pretty small quantity, the production started in the late 70's and in total less then 12.000 lenses was made before they discontinued the lens in 1997. The Noct-Nikkor reviewed here was the last type to be made, the AI-S version. The AI-S version has 9 aperture blades compared to 7 blades on the AI version. With filter, orig. cap, bottle case.