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Z50 in the lab soon
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What kind of use has a hood on a 50-250 or 16-50? Big Grin 

Except of a bit of rain protection or plastic bumper against wild animals (elk comes in mind...). The 14-30 also comes with a hood and the hood stays at home usually.

Side note: If I ever read a sentence like "The build quality of the lens is very good. The lens is based on a metal mount, both tubes are made of high quality plastics, the nicely rubberized zoom ring in addition features metal elements." which you wrote for the 1 Nikkor VR 30-110mm f/3.8-5.6 I'll have to make some fun out of it.

Yesterday I disassembled one to see if there was the slightest chance to get rid of some dust particles behind the front element. (No, that elements are glued or melted in their plastic cage) The "metal mount" is just screwed with 3 8 mm long screw into an all plastic design. The lens I got 2nd hand. Wobbling, scratching when zooming and occasionally the camera reacts funny (loose contacts?) when this lens is attached to it.

It's a throw away lens, not meant to be repaired - and the two DX Z lenses will be the same, in regards of their price. I don't know if that's part of Nikon's survival strategy?

There's so much more heritage of the 1 series in the new Z line that I start wondering if the 1 series was just a kind of pilot project, never meant to succeed economically. Trying out new ways to assemble lenses and bodies and make the as cheap as possible - but for the people and testers, who judge build quality by the look at the outside, gives it a nice finish and a bit of metal at the rear end, that will do  Tongue
  


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Z50 in the lab soon - by mst - 12-05-2019, 12:24 AM
RE: Z50 in the lab soon - by JJ_SO - 12-05-2019, 07:19 AM
RE: Z50 in the lab soon - by mst - 12-05-2019, 08:41 AM
RE: Z50 in the lab soon - by davidmanze - 12-06-2019, 04:03 AM
RE: Z50 in the lab soon - by mst - 12-08-2019, 12:35 AM
RE: Z50 in the lab soon - by Rover - 12-08-2019, 02:49 PM
RE: Z50 in the lab soon - by Brightcolours - 12-05-2019, 08:55 AM
RE: Z50 in the lab soon - by JJ_SO - 12-05-2019, 09:23 AM
RE: Z50 in the lab soon - by mst - 12-05-2019, 10:37 AM
RE: Z50 in the lab soon - by JJ_SO - 12-05-2019, 11:56 AM
RE: Z50 in the lab soon - by giulio - 12-20-2019, 08:31 AM
RE: Z50 in the lab soon - by mst - 12-21-2019, 07:54 PM
RE: Z50 in the lab soon - by thxbb12 - 12-21-2019, 08:19 PM
RE: Z50 in the lab soon - by mst - 12-21-2019, 08:29 PM
RE: Z50 in the lab soon - by JJ_SO - 12-21-2019, 09:37 PM
RE: Z50 in the lab soon - by mst - 12-22-2019, 11:34 AM
RE: Z50 in the lab soon - by JJ_SO - 12-22-2019, 01:20 PM
RE: Z50 in the lab soon - by mst - 12-22-2019, 01:42 PM
RE: Z50 in the lab soon - by thxbb12 - 12-21-2019, 08:49 PM
RE: Z50 in the lab soon - by Brightcolours - 12-22-2019, 12:35 PM
RE: Z50 in the lab soon - by mst - 12-22-2019, 01:11 PM
RE: Z50 in the lab soon - by JJ_SO - 12-22-2019, 02:49 PM
RE: Z50 in the lab soon - by mst - 12-23-2019, 07:20 AM
RE: Z50 in the lab soon - by JJ_SO - 12-23-2019, 09:10 AM
RE: Z50 in the lab soon - by ExtraLargeFormat - 12-26-2019, 02:52 PM
RE: Z50 in the lab soon - by mst - 12-27-2019, 04:49 PM
RE: Z50 in the lab soon - by davidmanze - 12-28-2019, 07:06 AM
RE: Z50 in the lab soon - by JJ_SO - 12-28-2019, 09:27 AM

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