Going to buy a 2nd hand DSLR, read that it uses lens with Nikon F mount. How do I know that a lens uses this mounting? The reason I ask is that I have a reative who has a manual Nikon SLR and I wanted to borrow some lenses from him.
tommon said:Also lose the 3D Matrix metering. The 1.5 cropping factor for most nikon F mount DSLR. Implies that the lens focal length is 50% more, eg 50mm becomes 75mm, 35mm becomes 50mm, etc.
Best to test with Nikon D lenses so that all camera features will work.
red_ryder said:Going to buy a 2nd hand DSLR, read that it uses lens with Nikon F mount. How do I know that a lens uses this mounting? The reason I ask is that I have a reative who has a manual Nikon SLR and I wanted to borrow some lenses from him.
tommon said:Also lose the 3D Matrix metering.
SzennyBoy said:Note that majority of the Nikon lenses you find around are F-mount lenses. Third-party lens manufacturers like Tamron, Sigma, Tokina, etc... also have F-mount versions of their lenses for the Nikon bodies. On metering issues, you will lose metering capabilities on the D70 and D100 if you use the manual lenses, AF lenses will meter as normal. Manual lenses will work fine on the D1 and D2 series bodies.
yes, F5 & F6 will meter with the AI lenses, but... red-ryder is after a DSLR body!espn said:IIRC, F5, F6 should meter with the AI lenses too
singscott said:Nikon have very confusing lens mount. Yes the base of the nikon mount design is a nikon F mount, so all the nikon lenes are able to fit on any nikon camera. But there many variation, let count how many. The orginal F, Ai, Ais, AF, D, AFD, AFS, G, DX. These mount variation will affect some function between camera and lens, like some will not have metering or 3D metering, some can't be use on full frame camera at all. I not an expert on the slight different of these mounts but there plently of material on the net. It will take me a long time to list the different may be people like ESPN will do a much better job.
Watcher said:Actually, that is not true. There is only 1 mount here in discussion: F-mount. The rest are functionalities...
user111 said:there is only one mount for nikon: the f-mount
we dont use the word " mount" to describe functionalities
for example, DX is still taken as being of "f-mount", not of "another nikon mount"