Item is in mint condition (see original pictures). No scratches, no fungus, no oil on aperture. Focus runs smooth. Very sharp lens. Comes boxed with manual and caps.
Ken Rockwell writes about this lens:
"This is a spectacular and inexpensive lens. There is no sharper wide angle lens made by Nikon for SLR cameras, and it is the only Nikon wide angle, along with the 15mm f/3.5, that is completely free from barrel distortion at ordinary distances. Optically this is almost a perfect lens and one of the most perfect lenses you can get to fit a Nikon camera. Nikon let their designers go wild on this otherwise pedestrian seeming lens. Instead of a simple 5 element design that every other 28mm f/2.8 lens uses, including the original AF version, this lens has EIGHT elements in EIGHT groups. This allows it a level of correction seen in no other Nikon wide angle. Nikon wanted to show the optical world who was boss here."
