I am a Sony/Minlolta AF guy because my lenses date back to my old Minolta i7000. I can not afford or justify buying a new stable of lenses. SewClever is in the same lens boat... lenses are expensive!
SewClever Said "I still want the F-mount" Nikon lenses. Perhaps this will help SewClever, I compiled info with thoughts of selling my Nikon 8008 film camera and lenses.
https://www.takebetterphotos.com.au/articles-SLR-lenses.htmlNikon have kept the same "F mount" coupling for nearly 60 years, so just about all lenses will fit (although they may not do everything), only introducing a new, bigger "Z mount" for Nikon mirrorless cameras in 2018. With an adaptor, F mount lenses will fit on Z mount cameras, but it might be more trouble than it's worth - see below. Today, I’m happily using a 40-year-old lens on my professional Nikon digital SLR... but I have to focus it myself. Except for the five new "AF-P" lenses, any Nikon autofocus lens will focus automatically on any Nikon digital SLR except on the Nikon D40, D40x, D60, D3000, D3100, D3200, D3300, D3400, D3500, D5000, D5100, D5200, D5300, D5500, D5600. These fourteen SLRs will only autofocus with newer lenses called "AF-S" lenses.
The budget range of "AF-P" lenses have a new type of focus motor and they won't focus at all (even in manual focus) with pre-2013 Nikons. The AF-P lenses only work perfectly with D500, D3300, D3400, D3500, D5300, D5400, D5500, D5600, D7500 and newer cameras. The AF-P lenses work with "limited function" with the following cameras (and we're trying to find out from Nikon exactly what "limited function" means - so far it seems that autofocus is OK, but manual focus doesn't work): D5, D810, Df, D750, D5200, D7100, D7200. To confuse the issue further, not all lenses allow all functions on all cameras. This table gives the details. Nikon instruction manuals normally have huge tables explaining what will and won't work together. If you have older equipment, make sure you read them.
The new Nikon Z mount takes all old Nikon lenses using the FTZ ("F to Z") adaptor. It works perfectly with AF-S, AF-I and AF-P lenses. But with AF-D and AF lenses you lose autofocus, plus (like with Nikon manual focus lenses such as AI, AI-S and AI-D and AE lenses), you have to open and close the aperture manually. But manual focus is easier through the Z cameras' stabilised, enlargeable electronic viewfinder than it ever was on film cameras.
http://www.mir.com.my/rb/photography/companies/nikon/htmls/models/htmls/Nikonf801sN8008s.htmAutofocus Film SLR cameras
F4, F5, F6, 8008, N90(s), 6006, 4004, N80, N75, N65 etc. - These cameras use AF Nikkor lenses which are compatible with current D-SLR cameras.
https://www.nikonimgsupport.com/ni/NI_article?articleNo=000002638&configured=1&lang=en_US