gbohannon wrote: Ken Hill wrote:
If it’s any interest to anyone. Searching the internet I came accross a company named Legacy2Digital located in Eugene, Oregon. They chip Nikon MF Glass. They also seem to do it all sell glass, CLA Lenses etc. Has anyone used or heard of them?
Here is a list of what i have and what their price quote is to do the work. It seems you still have no EXIF as to thr F-Stop on the Z6 after their conversion so I’m not interested.
This is their quote.
Ken - I have read about their services but have never used them. But regarding chipped lenses and EXIF...
I have several chipped Nikkor manual focus lenses (the factory chipped 45mm P lens and several that I put dandelion chips on myself). All of them will transfer the aperture setting to the EXIF data.
One thing to note with the Z cameras... When using manual focus chipped lenses you have to set the the aperture ring to the minimum aperture and control aperture setting via the rear command dial (else you get the fEE error on the top LCD and message on the viewfinder). You cannot transfer aperture control to the aperture ring on the lens like you can on the Df and other DSLR bodies. But is does record actual aperture shot in the EXIF.
So I would expect the same function from lenses modified by Legacy2Digital. But would confirm with them first.
George
I do not think you can control aperture on MF lenses with the Z. There is no aperture lever.
There is not a meter coupling lever on the outside of the FTZ like there is on an F mount for transferring the lens aperture setting to the camera, but there is an aperture control lever inside the FTZ (internal left side looking from the front) that will control the aperture of a chipped Nikon manual focus lens or older chipped AF lenses that have an aperture ring. Aperture ring must be set to minimum and controlled from the command dial on the Z body.
Key here is the MF lens must be CPU chipped.
It is a great feature for video using a CPU'd manual focus lens. You can control the aperture while filming via the multi-button switch on there rear of the camera and get silent aperture control. No clicking from physically changing the aperture ring. Of course this is a function of the native Z lenses too, but not that many of them out yet and nothing fast
