Can I Still Use My Nikon Slr Lens With The New Nikon Digital Cameras?
February 10, 2010 by admin
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is it practical to sell my nikon slr camera now that digital cameras are being used?
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Yes, with a few exceptions.
First and foremost – your old lenses will most likely mount on the new dSLR bodies, and you will be able to take pictures, unless those lenses and your 35mm body is 50-60 years old or so, even then you may be able to with a few minor modifications.
However, there are a few things you need to know.
1. Unless you go for a full frame body like D3, which retails for $5000, your lenses will automatically gain 1.5x the focal length. So your 28-80 lens will become 42-120. This may be good, or bad. Alternatively you’ll need a relatively cheap 18-55 lens to close the gap between what you alerady have and the wide angle you were used to.
2. The cheaper entry-level dSLR bodies won’t be able to auto-focus your older lenses. I mean D40 and D60. You need at least D70 (out of production) or D80 or any one of the more expensive models to do that.
Finally, if you can afford not selling the film body – keep it. There are a few things that film is still better for. For example extremely long exposures, such as 10-15 minutes+ are really not a viable options on digital as of today. So if you’re in habit of shooting meteor showers, city lights in motion or something similar, stick to film for those shots. Also film has far greater dynamic range, so for those shots requiring that feature, you may also consider a film body….
Good luck!
LEM.
P.S. A lot of info (perhaps much more than you wanted to know) about lens compatibility for Nikon can be found here:http://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/compati…
Yes, you can probably use the old lens with new digital cameras. Depending on which old lens you have and which digital camera you buy you may lose the ability to autofocus. Specifically, you may want to avoid the Nikon D40 or D40x bodies because they will be unable to autofocus a lens which isn’t an AF-S or AF-I lens.
You can check the compatibility of your specific lens(es) here:http://www.nikonians.org/nikon/slr-lens.…