![]() Lenses that use the bayonet inside the camera need have no focusing helicoid built into the lens barrel. The mount itself has two bayonets, one inside the camera and another outside. Some early Nikkors used this mark to denote that the lenses were coated. This is not to be confused with a "C" mark used as a suffix to the serial number. Each was marked with a "C" on the side of the lens barrel. These were the 85mm, 105mm, and 135mm lenses. Nikon made a small number of longer focal length lenses specifically designed to focus properly when mounted on a Contax. The mount was a copy of the Zeiss Ikon Contax rangefinder mount, however, small differences between the two mean that although Zeiss wide-angle lenses can be used on the Nikon cameras and vice versa, the longer lenses (50 mm and above), if used, will not be able to focus at both close range and infinity. Nikon SP of 1957, above, and Nikon S3 of 1958, below ![]()
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