Finally Ken Rockwell speaks (I just stumbled across his channel). Im very excited (seriuosly). Ken I've been referring to your Nikon lems web pages for years. You've helped me so much. Thanks !!!!!

Very good! So nice to put a voice with Ken Rockwell in the written world. Thanks you so much for the well done history lesson. It's like I'm in college again and listening to a lecture by a tenured professor. Thanks for all you've done for my photography education....Ted in Sebastian, Fl

As a 20+ year Canon user who now shoots Fuji X professionally, I recently picked up an old Nikon DSLR for the age of the mount. This is exactly the video I needed!

Hi Ken, I've been following your review site for 7 or 8 years now, great to see you on KZfaq. I've been a Nikon fan and professional user for the past 35 years. Your reviews are second to none. Thanks for posting😀

As a young amateur photographer who uses Nikon, this is the best video I have seen. I have been through your website a lot while I was hunting for new DSLR and even now when I need to know about the lenses. You are legend!

Hi Ken! After all these years of reading your pages. I'm pleasantly surprised to finally hear your voice! keep up the good work. Greetings from the Netherlands. Sjors

26 minutes flew by! An excellent journey through the lenses of Nikon, thanks.

I’ll keep rocking my D750 with my collection of D lenses. Pics look as great as ever. I don’t even mind whipping out my D80 as a smaller, lighter rig. Your earlier instructions for Nikon cameras help me speed through initial set ups - thanks. I loved, loved the days of slide film, rocking my F5 with my beloved Velvia and some Sensia or print film in my smaller N70. Also, had my Dad’s Leica in tow, usually with Black-and-White film. I have such wonderful memories of trips, scenic hikes, gardens and friends and family. Nowadays, it’s the D750, Fuji x100t (bought used for $300) and my iPhone. It took me a while to accept the iPhone as a camera, but I must admit, it’s very handy. I haven’t had to buy a bunch of new lenses and I’m already proficient with the SLR system. Tech will always advance and I already dropped silly money on photography - my beloved F5, for example, not to mention the tons of film and processing. But, it has been satisfying, photo journaling and seeing the world through the lens. Such a wonderful memory aid to recall moments in our lives.

Fantastic video! You won me over from being your reader starting in the very early days of your website (with that soft yellow background and one-page lens reviews) to watching KZfaq again! Thanks and keep up this great work!

Good job, Ken. Although I know 99% of this stuff, I would never have attempted to do this in 25 minutes! You did what could have taken two hours and got it well edited into this concise package! (One of your 13mm buddies).

You touched briefly upon the filter size problem in the video. I still have my stack of 52mm filters that fit the fixed focal length Nikkors of the sixties. You did a great job covering the physical compatibility subject. Eventually we need a video on the evolution of the optical designs, if someone wants to step up to the plate.

Loved this! Have been reading your website for so many years ! It was a delight to find you here! Amazing video thank you!

I love, love, love this video!! Thank you so much!!! I really enjoyed it!!! Loving your channel!!

You’re the best out there. I ALWAYS refer to your site if I have any questions, and NEVER leave unsatisfied. Thank you for your service to the industry

As a Nikon fan boy from my teen years, this tutorial was a really great tour of Nikon gear. I recently got back into photography and my internet searches landed me on Ken's website over and over. I have learned so much from this guy in just a few weeks regarding what gear is good, why, and how it should be used. Ken you are the guru of Nikon knowledge, man! I am really grateful you took the time to document all of this. Your website has been an immensely helpful resource in my quest to find some good gear and get shooting again.

I could’ve listened for another hour with any complaints whatsoever!!! Few are masters of their specific abilities, Sir you have mastered your craft so I’m grateful! (From an older dude making is way into macro photography using baby’s steps).

So glad you are on KZfaq. It's better than reading 😂

Just subscribed, that Nikkor fisheye lens is a gem! Best Nikon website in the world and now KZfaq channel. Thank you Ken.

I am someone who studied your website for endless hours. I cherished the finds where you still hosted a nearly 20 year old page on F100, or D100, etc... I made my kit by reading pretty much every page you hosted. I got an F6 (did installments on a used one), and decided that AF-D lenses were the best bang for the buck. Based on your reviews over literally decades now, I've got a kit that just destroys. Ok, MAYBE I can't use fancy software to capture an eagle's eyeball without Z whatever... But my F6 with AF-D and Velvia/Provia is a winning package. Friggin' amazing lenses. All of which I learned from you. Oh yeah, North Coast Photo. Learned that from you as well. Bonnie. They changed the name but it's still the same people and amazing service. All learned from a silly little website.

Welcome to KZfaq. You've been the point of reference for most of us here for many years :)

Ken, you're the one! Didn't know you do videos too. I'm glad I've found you here. I'm a long time web page follower of yours and your recommendations helped me a lot. Many thanks buddy! You deserve much credit for your work over the years.

Been using your web pages for years. Today, I 'discovered' your KZfaq channel. Thanks for all your great reviews. Yours is the first page I visit before I go ahead and buy a lense. Particularly when I am buying an older, or secondhand lense. You are the lense man!

Wow Ken. This was incredible. Thank for making it! Sorry I’m 3 years late hah. Great meeting you at the a9iii launch

So pleased you’re doing this. I’ve been an avid follower of your site for a long time, whenever I want to find out about a camera or lens yours is the first place I go.

Great History Ken. I too have only stumbled upon your KZfaq page recently after reading your reviews starting about 12 years ago. Always loved your very high-res product shots on your page. Looking forward to great video content here as well!

Such an incredible upload, a heck of a lot of fun to see all of that history!!

After so many years referencing your website, I now have subscribed here. You have been an invaluable source for so many nubes and pros alike over the years. Wish you great success here on YT.

I'm very late coming to the party, but the Ken's website has been highly useful in the last year. Discovered the website because of his "how to win at ebay" article, which every dummy like me should read. Excellent work sir! Nice to put a voice to the written word, you've had me in stitches reading your more satirical work on the website.

way above modern bloggers, thank you!

What a fantastic upload. I really enjoy your highly knowledgeable and to the point website as well. Keep it up!

Valuable guide for any one who wants to master true photography skills as opposed to people who are after bragging rights for owning the latest and greatest gear bought at ridiculous prices. Are you after great photographs OR owning the most expensive gear without knowing how to use it? Helps one make up their mind! Very helpful info.

Been using your reviews for years! I got my Nikon 80-200mm f4.5n thanks to your review raving over it! It's now my main lightweight telephoto zoom when doing 35mm landscape photography

Best video on Nikon lens history on KZfaq, EVER! I believe I have watched enough KZfaq videos to say that!

Thank you Ken, I've followed your web site for 15+ years, so strange hearing your voice on video. I hope to see and hear more from you.

Your website has been a great tool for learning about old nikkor lenses- thank you!

Well isn't that the craziest thing. After 20 years plus of reading your website, often with tongue firmly in cheek, I can finally put a voice to you.🤔

What a pleasant surprise to find you on KZfaq! 😁

Awesome, please keep stuff like this coming!

Thank you so much, Mr. Ken. When I was young (over 10 years ago) I visited your web site many times and I'd learn about Camera and Lens. I think you are legend of phography!

Hi Sir, I'm Amal Pal, from Kolkata, India and I've been among the lots of your staunch followers and I'm highly benefited by your advice on "Nikon Dream Team Lense". I also advise others to go just through your review and not to get distracted by the rivews made by any other. Thank you sir..... 👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Very interesting! Well done! I prefer manual focus lens when not in a rush, out and about in the nature. The focusing experience itself is far more pleasing and the film lenses feel lovely. Great stuff!

Well covered Ken, I liked this. Me 70 year old Nikonion, like review of my old lessons.

Ken Awesome! As a Nikon shooter since the late 1960's, thank you for a wonderful trip back into memory lane. Peter

Absolutely outstanding! This is my first and unique comment on KZfaq and you, certainly, deserved it! thanks a lot!

Hooray you're on you tube

Yikes! I just got a NIkon Lens History Minor Degree in 26m32s from KR University!!! I learned a lot!!!!!!!!! Thank you KR

I have always relied on Ken's site and his great chart to help figure out which of my Nikon lenses will work on my various Nikon cameras, and which older lenses may potentially not work or worse cause damage. Looking forward to watching this video in full.

Superb presentation, Ken ! Congrats x10000000 !

Ken, this was such a delight. Thank you.

Like Nikon, you don't stop either, lol. Nice to see you in the video game here -- your website has been a major resource for me for years.

I shouldn't say, but I love your style! Maybe you are the biggest asset for any lucid photograph in the world! My humble thank you!

great video! I've been a Nikon user since 1977 with an old Nikkormat and love the lens systems and the fact that I can still use old Nikon lenses on my current Nikon D750...thanks for this history!

Great history lesson I subscribed immediately.

Nice trip down memory lane. I've been a long time Nikon shooter but only recently freed myself from the "tyranny of auto focus". There are a lot of unappreciated AI-s lenses out there with their old school style.

Ken, I have been following for ages….Thank you for your great info and guidance!

I have learned a great deal from Ken Rockwell and I am glad to fund him

Thank you Ken for coming to KZfaq! Great expansion for a guy with so much knowledge about photography and maybe new generations of photograpers will benefit from this knowledge ❤️

BTW, I inherited my grandfather's Series E 50mm f/1.8 after he passed away, and absolutely treasure it. Even on a D850, the dang thing is sharp as a tack throughout most of the image frame, focusing is super smooth, and it's almost pancake-small. I'm really, really disappointed that Nikon's FTZ adapter didn't include an aperture position sensor, though. I thought that would be a given... Maybe they'll have a new FTZ adapter with added AI and pre-AI functionality...

Great video, I also love Nikon because they did not change the mount like crazy, and also the lens quality.

I had to bring out my note book for this and was glad to do it! Amazing! Thank you!

Thanks KEN

Brilliant Ken how about a film on the best old lenses for DX FX and Z mounts ?

Wow, this was so interesting Ken and I learned a lot of new things, so thank you. I've been reading your website for more years than I care to remember, so happy to have found you on youtube, sorry am late to the party, all the best to you and yours Ken, take care.

I love your site and recently found your channel here. This video is not just to see one time. This is real history and reference.

Damn, I didn’t know you had a KZfaq channel! 🤯🤗🤗🤗

little fun fact, that 60s fisheye at 7:40 was used by Stanley Kubrick in 2001: Space odyssey to make the glowing "Eye" for the HAL 9000 :)

So glad to see you on KZfaq! Four or five years ago I got my first film camera, the Nikon FG-20, and your reviews were an incredible resource for finding good lenses to invest in. Now I have a nice little collection of AI, AI-S, and AI-converted lenses I use for film work and now on my mirrorless camera. Look forward to seeing what you make next!

Very enjoyable video! You made me want to pop my 100/f2.8 E-series on my D2XS and go shoot.Llove how the arrows in the D2XS viewfinder tell me which way to turn the manual focus ring. Epic!

Two thumbs up nikon 105 2.5 is my favorite lens on my z6 😍😍😍

Love me some Ken Rockwell!!

Hello Ken, You have no idea how good this video is, it is exceptional. Thank you for doing this. If the Oscars had an award for the most useful, entertaining and knowledgeable person on photography you would be out buying a new cabinet to house your well deserved trophies. Keep up the good work and I look forward to putting on the kettle to tune into the next KR classic!

Big fan of your lens Reviews. From AF-D to the G lens, Tokina etc. Keep up the great information coming! 📸

Great Story!!!!

Series E is like E for everyone!

This is bar none, the absolute best, most informative Nikon video on KZfaq. Thanking for sharing all of your knowledge, Ken!

Definitely going to be a regular viewer of your videos Ken, thanks for dropping these nuggets of knowledge. Been a big fan of your site, so it's only natural :)

And now the Chuck Norris of lenses speaks up loud an clear !

LOL, subliminal sexual satisfaction, that's so funny !!!

Congratulations from a fan in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil! Great and informative video!!!!

Great video, Ken! Your web site has been around for a long time, and it s still a helpful place of Nikon information to this day. Thanks for sharing!

I've learned so much. I had been told that the Nikon F was based on the SP, but I've never seen an SP in person. If one wants to talk about hard to use cameras, I've used a Crown Graphic handheld to shoot bar license photos in Newark NJ.

Good to have you on KZfaq!

Ken describes a Leica 35mm as a camera that was selling like crazy, but nobody could afford. How is this different than Yogi Berra's: "Oh, that restaurant? Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded."? Great stuff, Ken. Thoroughly enjoyed.

Fantastic Ken and you have a great delivery style. You should do more of these educational videos.

Brilliant and super clean video,Ken.Even your nails are clean!

Thanks Ken for doing this awesome video on the history.

I've been using your website for years! You're channel is a gem! Please continue with this!

What a great video. I have used Ken's reviews to help me choose every lens I now have for my D7000, D7100 and D80, as well as the cameras themselves. I particularly like the older AFd lenses for their quality feel compared to the cheap and plasticky feel of the more modern AFs. Legends like the the enormously heavy 80-200 f2.8. I need a massage after carrying that around all day but, oh boy! are the results worth it! Another favourite, the 105 f2.8 macro for close ups. A little slower on the AF but spectacular results, good for portraits too.

Dear Ken, thank you for the interesting Nikon Lens History. I enjoy to mention the first Af attempt with the two F3 AF lenses 2,8/80 and 3,5/200 as addition. Best wishes from Germany.

Ken Rockwell in his natural habitat. What a great piece. I'm bookmarking this right next to that crazy photosynthesis compendium of every Nikon lens ever made, haha.

Ken, I read lot of your reviews and watched some videos on Nikon. I loved this one too much. Thank you.

Well done! You cover about 99% of what most photographers and Nikon camera lovers would ever want or need to know

Love your website and your KZfaq channel. Your output is prodigious, amazing. Thank you!

Great video Ken, you bring a great depth of knowledge that no one else on KZfaq has

Greetings from Bukarest and thank you for this doc! Awesome history lesson, great new things I could have found on many different sites, however, as a master of the job and great profrssional, you managed to keep everything in one simple doc. Respect and wish you the best! Andrei

Super video Ken. You have helped me over the years many times with your videos. I am presently shooting with aD850 and a Z6. You would have to pry the 850 out of my hands. For me the only thing missing is ibis, superb tool. For portraits I am using the 135 f2 D DC lense, pristine what a duo. Thanks again Ken, keep up the great work.

Love this video guide on the lenses. Superb Ken!!

Very nice video, I've been reading most of your articles since 2012 when I first learning photography with Nikon D70s & D1x, always love it. That nikon GN lens really surprise me, nikon ingenuity in the age of fixed GN flash. Anyway, you missed to mention those "new" E nikon lenses, one with "internal electronic aperture control" like one use used in Nikon's PC-E lenses (similar to Canon's electronically controlled aperture system). I suppose those "old" nikon aperture feeler control system has evolved quite nicely, first it was very crude with very large stepping, but you could always have a bright viewfinder with the lens at max opening right after you took the picture and set the aperture properly when you press the shutter button (hence the word "AUTO" on the lens). I believe older Nikon DSLR would simply fully release those aperture feeller to fully close the aperture during exposure, (auto) indexing on the lens aperture ring is the one decides where to stop closing the aperture. Newer DSLR like D300 with AI lens compatibility, you need to fully closed the aperture to the smallest value and the aperture feeler will "step" in precisely to the aperture value set in the camera exposure setting. It's like 5mm distance with fixed linear steps from likely say f/1.4 to f/22 with 1/3 or 1/2 stop increments, how many steps is that? 8 stops? multiply by 2 if 1/2 stop increments or multiply by 3 if 1/3 stop increments (equal to 24 linear step in 5 mm with each one mayber around 0.2mm! and the DSLR has to do it very fast and precisely or risking wrong exposure even if it missed by a fraction of mm). Heck, I once did a "forced" metering on D70s to support my junked 50/1.4 pre-AI using salvaged kit lens electronics; yeah, you got a wrong exif information, but provides you with focus confirmation (nikon always provide focus beep) and proper light meter during exposure in A or M mode (mind you the aperture still has to be set on the lens aperture ring but at least they meter properly and back to fully open once the exposure has completed). Learning nikon DSLR and try to understand nikon's flash system (pretty advanced and D70s/D200 support for wireless commander) was the best experience in my memories, today I've almost got no time to play with photography. Pity, still follow the news but slowly gets left behind.

Brilliant video. I have been a Nikon user for 25 years and still gained a lot of info.