I had already bought a particularly tatty Nikon F Photomic body a few months earlier, and I was looking for a lens, when I came across this set going
for a price that I couldn't refuse. This page is a draft of information about the camera
and lenses. It may go away and be subsumed into my cameras page.
The information here comes mainly from this page, which I find
remarkably helpful. Sadly, I can't find anything similar about the body.
The dates in the last column are guesswork based on linear interpolation of the production
dates and serial numbers; the preceding three columns are auxiliary information used to come
to the guesses. Presumably the production increased over the course of the years, so the
dates are probably earlier than my calculations. In particular it's interesting to note
that the dates spread over nearly 10 years. The equipment looks almost unused, so my guess
is that it was all bought at one time. Based on the production date ranges, this would have
had to be between August and November 1981 or shortly later.
Model
Serial
Notes
Range
Number
Duration
Date
Nikon Series E 28 mm f/2.8
1958113
191238
48
Nov 1981
Nikkor 35 mm f/1.4
410408
AI
403229 - 416628
16627
47
Nov 1979
Nikkor 50 mm f/1.4
4285307
AI
3940001-4850681
910680
51
Oct 1978
Nikkor 85 mm f/1.4
198627
AI-S
179091-245723
66632
290
1988
Nikkor 105 mm f/2.5
996310
AI-S
890015-1053938
163923
300
1997
Nikon FM2
7623234
Here are the entries from the photosynthesis site:
