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[nikcr]

Hi,

 

[I am new to the forum - hope this is posted in the correct area:]

 

I love my old FM2 but it is not practical and cost effective to run it for the amount of photography I want to do. So I am looking to upgrade to a digital FX camera - ideally Nikon.

 

I have 4 very nice manual lenses that I would like to keep using as it would be very expensive to replace them with the latest automatic lenses at the same time as buying the camera.

 

Is it possible to use these lenses (one is from the 70ies, and the others are all late 80ies and 90ies in vintage)? Would I need to make any modification to them or the camera?

 

thank you very much!

 

Nik C

[Merco_61]

What are the lenses? Some of the Ai and AiS lenses that are very nice on film don't quite have the resolution for a 24 MP or greater sensor. As long as your lenses have the Ai tab, they will work on all FX cameras with metering. As long as you enter your focal length and max aperture, even Matrix metering will work.

[dcbear78]

If they are Nikon F Mount lenses they will be fine.

I will say Nikon digital cameras and manual focus lenses aren't the greatest combination. The viewfinder is nothing like film cameras and getting focus is much harder. And there are very few digital aides to help out. Can be done and some in here almost exclusively do. But in my opinion there are better cameras to work with manual focus lenses. You can also mount your lenses on any of the Sony A7 series of cameras with 100% functionality too. Or Fuji, but they are a crop sensor. Both would be much better choices in my opinion.

[ScottinPollock]

Yup. This ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

[nikcr]

Ah! thank you for the replies! I have just posted  a simialr post now - with a photo of one of my lensses attached as I did not think anyone responded (I did not get any notifications from this forum) - my mistake!

 

My nicest lense (but i thnk also the oldest) is a Nikkor - SC Auto 1:1.4 f=50mm lense.

 

My plan is now get a used D610, and then a modern mid-range zoom lense for day to day (like holdiay snaps, etc) use, but then still be able to use use my older manual lenses if I wanted to.

 

Thank you!

[nikcr]

Thank you for your help - I think I will still go for the Nikon D610, probably a good used one, together with a middle of the range small zoom lense .

 

I checked out the Sony alternatives but they are just too expensive.

 

Nik C

[nikcr]

this is a photo of the modified lense

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