Hi everyone.
Which Nikon body, may be the best for older non A-I, and a-i lenses? Not interestered in the top of the line, such as D3. affordable for senior citizen, not wishing to drop Canon completely. Medium lenses, macro, short telephoto, tripod-are my thing. I have 50, and 105, already ( with adapter for EOS?.
Looking at a 180 and 300 AI.
Cheers
Harry This is for a digital body
Thanks Robert.
Maybe i should offered it in Nikon forumn. I appreciate your input. I have the 30D and adapters to put Pentax M42 and Nikon lenses on it. However, have a gut feeling-that a Nikon digital body may be a happier mate for these older lenses?
Cheers
Harry
If you intend to use non-AI lenses, Canon bodies are your best choice. The only Nikon bodies which can mount non-AI lenses are the D40, D40X and D60, none of which can meter with non-CPU lenses.
The D200 and D2H are currently the most inexpensive option for AI and AI-S lenses in Nikon-land that are reasonably modern. The D1 series, D2 series, D3, D200, D300 and D700 will all meter with AI lenses. No Dx0 series body will meter with non-CPU lenses nor will the D100.
You are right but with D200 selling quite low I think that Ais are great fun! I have 6 of them and to be honest I find them different in terms of rendering from my top line L Canons.
Thanks for all, who answered. Iam also looking at several AIS lenses. Seems like entry level would be D200. I have 30D and Nik/EOS adapter now.
Thanks
Harry
D200 is a horrible camera, no better than your 30D in any respect besides build quality. Same crappy viewfinder, a much worse sensor (30D's is a great sensor), overall a waste of time.
ISO1600 wrote:
D200 is a horrible camera, no better than your 30D in any respect besides build quality. Same crappy viewfinder, a much worse sensor (30D's is a great sensor), overall a waste of time.
D300 or D700 are both excellent.
D200 has a better viewfinder (95% .94x vs 95% .9x) and a sensor which is at least as good as the 30D's up to ISO 800 while offering marginally more resolution . It's also got a far better AF system (similar sensitivity but more configurable and controllable) and a far superior flash system. The D300 only truly exceeds the D200 over ISO 800 and in AF.
If you are using a tripod and shooting low iso you can get a D1 or 1h really inexpensively to play with, i don't really know how much you want to spend or what you are willing to live with as far as iso capability but I saw a D1h in my local store for 200.00 that I almost picked up just for the metering with my ai-s lenses.
D200 is a really good camera and can be had for around 5-600 if you are looking to spend more. If you want to put up more specifics on what you need/don't need the cam to do and your price range I can help you narrow it down.
Get a D300; the prices are pushing to about $1,100 now. Not only it will meter with your Nikkor AI-S lenses but you also get an electronic rangefinder feature, with other words, focus confirmation with the camera.
AGeoJO wrote:
Get a D300; the prices are pushing to about $1,100 now. Not only it will meter with your Nikkor AI-S lenses but you also get an electronic rangefinder feature, with other words, focus confirmation with the camera.
All of the other bodies will give you focus confirmation as well......
Well, then nevermind . I know there are arrows on the D700 that tells you which direction you are supposed to turn the lens into to focus. I believe that feature is not there on the (older) D300.
HerbChong wrote:
every Nikon body i have tried from D70 onwards has a digital rangefinder for manually focusing Nikon lenses. i think most older bodies do too.
Herb....
Every Nikon AF body back to the F3AF has had that feature (And you can get it on standard F3's using the F3AF prism too)
AGeoJO wrote:
Well, then nevermind . I know there are arrows on the D700 that tells you which direction you are supposed to turn the lens into to focus. I believe that feature is not there on the (older) D300.
The arrows are a 'pro' feature, the lower end bodies only get a confirmation dot except the D60 which has a graduated rangefinder readout in the viewfinder as well.
mawz wrote:
The arrows are a 'pro' feature, the lower end bodies only get a confirmation dot except the D60 which has a graduated rangefinder readout in the viewfinder as well.
OK. I thought pros should know right away in which direction they have to turn the focusing ring into to focus the lens . It is the amateurs that are struggling and they have to guess... . Nikon should have done it the other way around, huh?
. I know there are arrows on the D700 that tells you which direction you are supposed to turn the lens into to focus. I believe that feature is not there on the (older) D300.
. Nikon should have done it the other way around, huh?