SteveLew Loc: Sugar Land, TX

The Nikon FTZ adapter works with all Nikon F lenses. One of my favorite Nikon portrait lenses is from the 70's a manual focus 105 F2.5. This lense works perfect using my FTZ adapter. This lense has no motor.

JD750 Loc: SoCal

For some photography is the art of collection!


Yes she does!! Oh, sorry I was thinking of MILF.



Very true.

ronpier Loc: Poland Ohio

Will it auto focus Steve? I have a number of motorless AF and AF D lenses.

SteveLew Loc: Sugar Land, TX

Some of your lenses will most likely auto focus with the FTZ adapter others will not. I shoot mainly landscape and I have my Nikon set to manual focus with peaking even for my Nikon S mirrorless lenses.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

And some have a camera for portraits, one for landscapes, one for macro, one for.....
Not a collection, dedicated use.

ronpier Loc: Poland Ohio

Thanks

mtbear

DSLRs seem to have quicker response rates, so would be more appropriate for most sports and fast moving wildlife. Mirrorless would seem to be better when you want stealth, street photography and slow moving wildlife. I haven't shopped for either in a couple of years so this may have changed.

petrochemist Loc: UK

I agree, but have to add I have a reflex viewer for my view camera (never yet used it however) :)

ralphhipps

https://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/mirrorless/lenses/ftz.htm

from Ken's page:

The adapter only works properly (autofocuses) with Nikon's newest lenses, which are those with built-in AF motors (AF-I, AF-S and AF-P). With all other lenses autofocus does not work. AF and AF‑D lenses become manual focus only.

Manual-focus F, AI converted, AI and AI‑s lenses on the FTZ have 1.) no automatic diaphragm control so you have to open and close the diaphragm manually for each shot for precise focus, and 2.) absolutely no communication between camera and lens so the camera, meter and EXIF data have no idea what aperture you're using, and 3.) the camera has no ability to set the taking aperture so there is no Program or Shutter-priority modes with these lenses. 1984's Nikon FA or any FX DSLR do all this and so much more with manual-focus lenses, but the FTZ is a zero and you may as well use a cheap passive Chinese adapter for manual-focus lenses — it will have the same functions and save you over $200.

The sad reality is that the longer-term Nikon shooter you are, the less you will want the FTZ because less and less works with older lenses. The FTZ is really only for people with recent lenses. It does not do Nikon's great legacy proud, but for most normal people with lenses less than ten years old all should work great. Just don't fall for Nikon's deceptive marketing implying that older lenses work well — they don't.

SteveLew Loc: Sugar Land, TX

If you shoot mainly landscape manual focus works very well. I even use Nikon's S lenses (that are made for the Z system) on manual. I use all my Nikon glass with focus peaking and manual focus works well for landscape shooting.

User ID

The M-Leica RF has a mirror ?

It has a prism and a beam splitter. If that qualifies as a mirror, well whoop dee doo.

FWIW, I had 2 different EOS models also featuring a prism and a beam splitter and they were definitely SLRs, not RFs.

Thousands of box Brownies and ancient folding cameras also have mirrors.

Simply proves that anyone can point to real facts to create pointless distractions.

BebuLamar

The Leica M has a mirror inside the small window just below the shutter speed dial.

User ID

I was mistaken. I thought you knew the difference between a prism and a mirror. Live and learn. Try it sometime.

www.angelfire.com/biz/Leica/page10.html

BebuLamar

Isn't the part that is moving as you focus a mirror? The viewfinder is indeed a prism.