Nikkor Old Glass
Aug 18, 2015 07:10:24 #
I spent last Sunday morning taking pictures of my grandchildren enjoying a local splash pad. I mounted my 300mm f/4.5 AI-s lens on my D700. Most images were shot at between 1/500 and 1/1500. I think the results are spectacular, sharp and well exposed. Manual focus takes me back to when this lens was new ( 30 years ago! LOL ), but if you can handle old glass you can get great results on a budget.
Aug 18, 2015 09:36:43 #
You can also get them reasonably cheap too. Last year I bought a pristine condition 300mm Nikkor at a local camera shop for 30 USD.
Aug 18, 2015 16:52:52 #
there is so much classic old glass getting sold for peanuts. keep it to yourself. dont tell everyone :)
Aug 18, 2015 22:18:06 #
rook2c4 wrote:
You can also get them reasonably cheap too. Last year I bought a pristine condition 300mm Nikkor at a local camera shop for 30 USD.
Holy cr*p. I paid $200 and thought it was a Bargoon! The AF-S f/4 is C$1,750. But there a good point to be made for secrecy in such matters. Demand will only escalate the price. But none of the D3xxx D5xxx or D7xxx bodies will meter a non-CPU lens. The only DX bodies that will are "obsolete", the last one being the D300s. Whew....!
Aug 19, 2015 11:12:41 #
Fotomacher wrote:
I spent last Sunday morning taking pictures of my grandchildren enjoying a local splash pad. I mounted my 300mm f/4.5 AI-s lens on my D700. Most images were shot at between 1/500 and 1/1500. I think the results are spectacular, sharp and well exposed. Manual focus takes me back to when this lens was new ( 30 years ago! LOL ), but if you can handle old glass you can get great results on a budget.
Most recently I bought a Nikon D610. This is my first full frame camera.
I still have some lenses from the film era, manual lenses that have been converted to AI so that I can use them with digital. One of those lenses is a 50mm f1.4 Nikkor S from the mid sixties that I used often with my Nikon F. After conversion it works beautifully with the D610 and yes, the images are sharp and with vivid colors in spite of been a single coated lens although I can see in the light through it reflections in amber and blue.
Using these lenses is a great experience for me because I love using the lens to set manually in it my apertures. It is a different experience.
Aug 19, 2015 20:50:16 #
Wrong !!!.... The D7000, D7100 & D7200 will meter with Ai & Ais lenses. I should know, I have been doing it since I got my D7100. Still use my D300 with the old glass as well. The Base model DSLRs (the others you mentioned, ones that don't have a built in focus motor) can mount all the older glass but won't meter. Not a huge issue unless shooting fast action or in rapidly changing light. I used the same manual focus lenses on my D70s.... Either use a hand held meter, or use the old "Sunny 16" rule & then use the LCD & Histogram to fine tune....
Fotomacher wrote:
Holy cr*p. I paid $200 and thought it was a Bargoon! The AF-S f/4 is C$1,750. But there a good point to be made for secrecy in such matters. Demand will only escalate the price. But none of the D3xxx D5xxx or D7xxx bodies will meter a non-CPU lens. The only DX bodies that will are "obsolete", the last one being the D300s. Whew....!
Aug 19, 2015 21:51:13 #
Screamin Scott wrote:
Wrong !!!.... The D7000, D7100 & D7200 will m... (show quote)
Scott, that almost brings a tear to my eye! Awesome! Love old glass! :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:
Aug 20, 2015 00:15:57 #
kb6kgx
Loc: Simi Valley, CA
rook2c4 wrote:
You can also get them reasonably cheap too. Last year I bought a pristine condition 300mm Nikkor at a local camera shop for 30 USD.
Dont mess with me! $30.00???? And it was pristine? How can I get one? I had one that I bought new back in the 80s, for about $400 more than that at time time. It was stolen, and Id love another one!
Aug 20, 2015 08:57:47 #
mohawk51
Loc: Texas
Screamin Scott wrote:
Wrong !!!.... The D7000, D7100 & D7200 will m... (show quote)
Now that's what I call a "lens collection". :thumbup:
Aug 20, 2015 09:41:02 #
Bazbo
Loc: Lisboa, Portugal
Fotomacher wrote:
I spent last Sunday morning taking pictures of my grandchildren enjoying a local splash pad. I mounted my 300mm f/4.5 AI-s lens on my D700. Most images were shot at between 1/500 and 1/1500. I think the results are spectacular, sharp and well exposed. Manual focus takes me back to when this lens was new ( 30 years ago! LOL ), but if you can handle old glass you can get great results on a budget.
I use old glass all the time (both Nikkor and Zeiss).
Cameras come and go. Lenses are forever.
Aug 21, 2015 12:44:57 #
I have a few quality lenses now, that no way I could afford in the 80's. I have no problem going back to manual focus.
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