What UV filter fits the Nikon 28-80 mm SLR zoom lens?
I have a Nikon D50 digital camera and just bought on line a digital accessory kit which includes a 52mm UV filter. This is useless for me, and I thought the filter was going to be a universal size, but it does not fit on the end of the lens. The lens is a 28-80mm, which is the one most commonly bundled with the D50 SLR, so i feel a bit foolish at having bought this.
I have read the answers posted so far and am still a bit confused--I am very new to this. The symbol on the lens for filter size has a 58 after it. The lens is a Nikon AF Nikkor 28-80mm 1:3.3-5.6 G, I had trouble finding this on the B&H site and felt a bit overhwelmed by the Nikonians boards.
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Unfortunately, the other answers for 62mm and 77mm are wrong.
The Nikkor 28-80mm f/3.3-5.6G Autofocus Lens has a 58mm filter size! That’s what the 58 after the filter symbol (O with a line through it) means. The 52mm filter you bought should appear to be just slightly too small.
Go to Nikon USA: http://www.nikonusa.com/template.php?cat=1&grp=5&productNr=1927 and click on the "Tech Specs" tab or download specs and you’ll see that Nikon itself says it’s 58mm.
aaron 11136 or wahtever is 100% correct. It should be a 77mm though. Congrats on the new Nikon. You’ll love it.
I thought I answered this before… well, the Nikkor AF 28-80mm f/3.5-5.6 lens takes a 62mm filter size.
I owned one of these lenses, the "D" version and gave it away and bought the Nikkor AF 28-105mm f/3.5-5.6D which is a more versatile and useful lens.
By the way, check out http://www.nikonians.com and check out all of the great forums there to ask questions and get help from about 44,000 Nikon gear users from every level. They are the friendliest and most helpful (and knowledgeable) people on the net!
Generally u will find a Ф (insert number here) mm stamped on the lense, this indicates the filter size . If this is not case i would recomment going to the owners manual on the lense or look up your lense in http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?O=productlist.jsp&A=getpage&Q=RootPage.jsp then go to acessories for that lense i hope this helps .