Nikkor 13mm f/5.6 reviewed by Ken Rockwell

Ken Rockwell has a review of the old but still very impressive (and ridiculously expensive) Nikon/Nikkor 13mm f/5.6 classic lens. Head over to his site to check it.

From the review:

Just as no man or nation has repeated America's multiple landings of men on the moon, there has never been any lens equal to Nikon's 13mm.

Not only does the 13mm cover a wider undistorted angle than any other professional SLR lens ever made, it does so with much less distortion Nikon's ordinary normal and wide lenses!

It's slow, at f/5.6, however it's unusual in having been designed to perform well at full aperture. Falloff and definition doesn't improve much stopped down; shoot at f/5.6 all the time if you like. Depth-of-field is so great that it's unusual that you'd need to stop down.

Forget about ever seeing one; only about 350 were made, and only to special order. That means less than one out of every 100,000 lenses Nikon has ever made is a 13mm. Forget about finding one anyplace other than eBay, where they turn up a couple of times a year in various places around the world.

Read the full review and check the awesome sample images here or buy a Nikon DSLR lens here.