Stevep5050

Will FX lens work on DX body I know about the crop and 1.5 etc just trying to get people's opinion with exsperence

MT Shooter Loc: Montana

It will work perfectly, and give generally better images than DX lenses as you will only be using the middle half of the lens itself, none of the corner distortion issues in the FX lens will show on a DX body.

PHRubin Loc: Nashville TN USA

Yes, it will work fine but function as a lens of 1.5 times the focal length on a full frame camera. However the reverse is not true. A DX lens will make images with vignetting on an FX camera.

Stevep5050

Thanks

Stevep5050

So a 24-120 would be 24 - 180?

Nukepr Loc: Citrus County, FL

FX lenses work fine on a DX body. I have a Nikon D7200. My main lens is the very sharp Tokina 24-70 2.8 and my other favorite is my Tokina 70-200 f4. Both of these are full frame lenses. I also have Nikon 300mm f4 and 105mm 2.8 macro that are full frame lenses. All of them work great on my DX camera.

Stevep5050

Thanks for the input

PHRubin Loc: Nashville TN USA

It would function as a 36-180 would on a full frame.

MT Shooter Loc: Montana

No, a 24-120mm lens is ALWAYS a 24-120mm lens. But because your camera has a smaller sensor it will not capture the entire image projected by the lens and will cause a narrower field of view. You will get the same field of view on your D7200 with that lens as a 36-180mm lens would give on a full frame camera. It has nothing at all to do with magnification, and a lens will never change no matter what camera you mount it on, only the captured portion of the lens' projected image changes, nothing else.

mas24 Loc: Southern CA

Gene51 Loc: Yonkers, NY, now in LSD (LowerSlowerDelaware)

Yes they will. The crop is just that - it will diminish the field of view to be equivalent to a longer focal length, but magnification, DoF etc will be as it is without the 1.5 crop factor. Think of it as cropping the center of the image in a full frame camera, but keeping all the pixels.

timberlane Loc: Oregon

Oh MT Shooter, you get it like so many don't. The sensor does not change the focal length or magnification of the image, only the field of view. The idea that a crop sensor "extends the reach" of a lense is ludicrous. Whoever believes that I have ocean front property in Arizona for you. Now let the trolls come out.

dcampbell52 Loc: Clearwater Fl

Yes, it works perfectly. I use FX lenses on my DX bodies all of the time. In fact, I haven't purchased a DX lens since I bought my D70s and got the 18-70 DX lens with it. Everything else is FX and I now have an FX body (D610) to go with my DX D7100 and DX D70s. All of the FX lenses work perfectly on the DX with the following exceptions. The entry level D3xxx (D3300/D3400) and Entry level D5xxx (D5400/D5500) do not have internal focus motors so ANY autofocus lenses that you purchase MUST have the silent wave motor (SWM) built into the lens. The mid and upper level Nikon cameras have a focusing motor built into the body which (while slower than SWM) will focus any of the non-SWM lenses. All of the SWM lenses will work on all of Nikon's current cameras and bodies and I think are backwards compatible to most or all of Nikon's DSLR cameras. I haven't tried one on my Nikon D70s so I can't state that for sure. Since I all of my cameras have "internal focusing motors) in the bodies, I don't have to worry about lens compatibility and purchasing a "AF lens" that (as all of mine do) requires a motor in the camera. I will say that if you purchase a D7xxx camera or better, you will probably save the additional money that you spent on the body (verses a D3xxx or D5xxx) on not having to find or purchase autofocus SWM motor lenses in order to have autofocus. I will also say that lenses with SWM tend to focus more quietly and faster than those using the motor in the camera.

billnikon Loc: Pennsylvania/Ohio/Florida/Maui/Oregon/Vermont

I have a Nikon d500 and D810, and I have a mix of lenses. I have no problem switching. If I am going to do wide angle work I make sure I mount a FX lens on my FF D800 to assure wide angle coverage. Likewise I mount the 200-500 on my D500 to get the most reach I can out of it. I switch as the shot demands.

charles brown Loc: Tennesse