Allie

i have an old Nikon Lens PC Nikkor 35mm 2.8 Tilt-Shift No. 195569 in almost new condition. Does anyone have an idea of what it is worth? Tried to look it up, found similar ones, but not this one.

RWR Loc: La Mesa, CA

Unless the lens has been dropped, it does not have a tilt function!

Allie

i just noticed that, only one adjustment knob.

JPL

$100-200 is my guess. On Ebay those lenses are listed for $129-399.

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_odkw=canon+ef+300mm+f2.8&_osacat=0&_from=R40&_trksid=p2045573.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.H0.XPC+Nikkor+35mm+2.8.TRS0&_nkw=PC+Nikkor+35mm+2.8&_sacat=0

jonjacobik Loc: Quincy, MA

Google it, you'll find 5 similar used lenses from $82 to $500.

amfoto1 Loc: San Jose, Calif. USA

If you look on eBay at the sold listings you'll find the early and rougher PC--Nikkor 35mm lenses are typically going for $200 or less.... some as low as $125, depending upon condition. In reasonable condition, particularly the later ones appear to sell for between $250 and $300... with some in mint condition over $300 and even one that was listed as "like new in original box" selling for almost $370.

In other words, it's a relative bargain compared to modern PC-Nikkor which each now sell for around $2000 (24, 45 and 85mm) to nearly $3400 (19mm).

A bit of trivia... when Nikon introduced the 35mm PC it was soon discovered that on the Nikon SLRs of the day, you had to cancel out the shift and re-center the lens to get accurate metering. That was a pain in the arse, that you had to reset the lens to 0 any time you wanted to take a meter reading! Then someone discovered that the Konica SLRs of the day (Autoreflex T3 and others) were able to meter accurately even with the lens shifted... and there was a widely available Nikon F-mount to Konica K/AR-mount adapter that made it possible (and has no optics that might degrade image quality). As a result, in those days a lot of Nikon shooters who used the PC lens also ended up with that adapter and a Konica body in their camera bag, especially for use with the 35mm PC. The F-mount to K/AR adapters still tend to sell for 2 or 3 times what a various other adapters for Konica sell for (Konica were designed to be able to accommodate a number of other system lenses via adapters... much the way that Canon and Sony do today).

I don't know about more recent SLRs and modern DSLRs... I bet they all meter fine with the PC lenses!

daeod Loc: Levittown, PA

It is a shift only. I bought one last year on goodwill auction for $200. It is interesting to play will. It is absolute manual. No internal meter, set aperture with a ring, open the aperture to focus then reclose the aperture before shooting. Adding- I am using on my Nikon D90 DSLR.