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Equipment & Techniques => Cameras, Lenses and Shooting gear => Topic started by: Edalongthepacific on September 13, 2012, 09:02:37 pm

Title: Nikon Lens gold band
Post by: Edalongthepacific on September 13, 2012, 09:02:37 pm

What is the significance of Nikon lenses that have the full gold band around them? Are they all "G" lenses?

Title: Re: Nikon Lens gold band
Post by: sean mills on September 13, 2012, 10:31:06 pm

None.

'G' means no aperture ring.

Gold ring 'means' nothing really. Just decoration. G has nothing to do with gold, only the aperture being internal and controlled by the body. The PCE lenses have gold rings, and they are not G lenses.

You could say the gold ring means 'premium' or 'professional', but there are plenty of nikkors with the gold ring that I wouldn't hold to that standard.

Title: Re: Nikon Lens gold band
Post by: telyt on September 15, 2012, 08:46:51 pm

Quote from: Edalongthepacific on September 13, 2012, 09:02:37 pm

What is the significance of Nikon lenses that have the full gold band around them?

I don't know about now but it used to mean the lens includes an ED element.

Title: Re: Nikon Lens gold band
Post by: rethmeier on September 16, 2012, 07:03:15 am

Gold means more expensive!

Title: Re: Nikon Lens gold band
Post by: BernardLanguillier on September 16, 2012, 08:51:47 am

It is Nikon version of L lenses... but they forgot to give them a recognizable name...

Some day Nikon will start to do marketing. :-)

Cheers,
Bernard