{"product_id":"vintage-nikon-lens-extension-ring-set-k-macro-tubes","title":"Nikon SLR Lens Extension Ring Set K (5-Piece Macro Tube Kit)","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eWHAT CONDITION THE CONDITION IS IN: 88-Day Confirmed Operation Warranty. Clean and pristine. Some very minor wear marks, only noted for full disclosure. Scroll down if you want to learn about the design, performance, and story behind it. Or don’t. It’ll be here either way.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSomewhere in a Tokyo camera shop in 1968, a Nikon engineer looked at a perfectly good lens and thought, what if we made it worse, but on purpose, and in five interchangeable pieces? Thus was born the Extension Ring Set K, a deceptively modest collection of metal tubes that contains absolutely no glass, performs no optical wizardry, and yet manages to transform ordinary lenses into macro instruments of surprising capability.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe K-set's genius, if we're being generous, and why not, it's Tuesday, lies in its hybrid identity. With a \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.foxandtalbot.com\/collections\/nikon-f-mount\" title=\"Shop our Nikon F mount lenses\"\u003eNikon F\u003c\/a\u003e bayonet on one end and 52mm screw threads on the other, it has the rare distinction of being useful in at least three different ways: as an extension tube, a deep lens hood, or, combined with a reversing ring, a \"poor man's macro\" solution that would make any cheapskate beam with pride.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRanging from 5mm to 20mm of extension across five rings, the set lets you creep closer to your subject while simultaneously robbing you of working distance, depth of field, and light. It's a transaction that feels a bit like getting a raise and discovering your taxes went up.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe K-set has very firm opinions about who it will and won't associate with. Modern Nikon DSLRs with an AI tab, your D850s, your D750s, the whole respectable lot, risk actual mechanical damage if they so much as flirt with these rings. However, Z-series bodies, the D3000, the D5000, and any vintage F mount camera that remembers the Nixon administration are perfectly welcome at the table.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThere's no autofocus, no automatic diaphragm, and no digital hand-holding of any kind. You stop down manually, you meter manually, and you think, which is either a meditative return to photographic fundamentals or an inconvenience. The K-set is a relic that refuses to behave like one: still useful, still versatile, and still capable of making you work for something beautiful.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nikon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48274269995195,"sku":"35MM-NIKO-100224","price":58.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0645\/6960\/6331\/files\/vintage-nikon-extension-ring-set-k-macro-tube-stack.jpg?v=1787374139","url":"https:\/\/www.foxandtalbot.com\/products\/vintage-nikon-lens-extension-ring-set-k-macro-tubes","provider":"Fox and Talbot Cameras","version":"1.0","type":"link"}