FWIW that’s correct to a large extent. Trying to mount pre Ai lenses can damage most Nikon dslr bodies. But that’s not the case with the Df. It is designed to accept almost all of those legacy lenses. The only caveat is you must set the f stop on the lens ring and then the body electronically so they match as there is no communication between the two whatsoever. I do this often. You must also have that particular lens entered in the menu system and select it befor shooting. But that is not an issue as you simply select that lens as the one you are mounting before use. It’s not a big step. Just pre enter up to 9 early lenses in the menu and then you can turn a dial to the one you are going to use. It works fine and is just one easy extra step.

Don't you ask this question ever, especially if you are a young photographer? Well, let me repeat it again, how good a lens do I need?

Modern lenses are sharp enough. There is no way we can compare the technology of modern lenses to what we had when we were shooting film. As far as I am concerned I can categorically say that I NEVER used a lens that failed to do its part when I did mine.
I decided to use some images shot around my neighborhood to illustrate that using good technique any lens will yield the results we expect. Not all true behind those comments that modern, high Mp. cameras cannot do well with old lenses. The D-610 has 24 Mp. but other cameras like the D800 does as well with these lenses.

None of these images were shot with modern lenses. As a matter of fact, the image of the old man walking his dog was made using a 1974 Nikon 50mm f1.4 single coated lens. a primitive lens considering modern multicoated lenses. I did not even use the exposure meter and rather I went with the "sunny 16 rule."
The flowers were shot at ISO 640 with the Nikon 105mm f4 from the ealy 70's, no tripod. The backlighted columns were shot with a Nikon 35mm f2 from the early 80's. All of them old, manual lenses using a Nikon D-610 and ALL of them original JPEG images with minimal manipulation during editing with Photoshop.

So, how good a lens do I need?

Don't you ask this question ever, especially if you are a young photographer? Well, let me repeat it again, how good a lens do I need?

Modern lenses are sharp enough. There is no way we can compare the technology of modern lenses to what we had when we were shooting film. As far as I am concerned I can categorically say that I NEVER used a lens that failed to do its part when I did mine.
I decided to use some images shot around my neighborhood to illustrate that using good technique any lens will yield the results we expect. Not all true behind those comments that modern, high Mp. cameras cannot do well with old lenses. The D-610 has 24 Mp. but other cameras like the D800 does as well with these lenses.

None of these images were shot with modern lenses. As a matter of fact, the image of the old man walking his dog was made using a 1974 Nikon 50mm f1.4 single coated lens. a primitive lens considering modern multicoated lenses. I did not even use the exposure meter and rather I went with the "sunny 16 rule."
The flowers were shot at ISO 640 with the Nikon 105mm f4 from the ealy 70's, no tripod. The backlighted columns were shot with a Nikon 35mm f2 from the early 80's. All of them old, manual lenses using a Nikon D-610 and ALL of them original JPEG images with minimal manipulation during editing with Photoshop.

So, how good a lens do I need?

Don't you ask this question ever, especially if you are a young photographer? Well, let me repeat it again, how good a lens do I need?

Modern lenses are sharp enough. There is no way we can compare the technology of modern lenses to what we had when we were shooting film. As far as I am concerned I can categorically say that I NEVER used a lens that failed to do its part when I did mine.
I decided to use some images shot around my neighborhood to illustrate that using good technique any lens will yield the results we expect. Not all true behind those comments that modern, high Mp. cameras cannot do well with old lenses. The D-610 has 24 Mp. but other cameras like the D800 does as well with these lenses.

None of these images were shot with modern lenses. As a matter of fact, the image of the old man walking his dog was made using a 1974 Nikon 50mm f1.4 single coated lens. a primitive lens considering modern multicoated lenses. I did not even use the exposure meter and rather I went with the "sunny 16 rule."
The flowers were shot at ISO 640 with the Nikon 105mm f4 from the ealy 70's, no tripod. The backlighted columns were shot with a Nikon 35mm f2 from the early 80's. All of them old, manual lenses using a Nikon D-610 and ALL of them original JPEG images with minimal manipulation during editing with Photoshop.

So, how good a lens do I need?

Don't you ask this question ever, especially if you are a young photographer? Well, let me repeat it again, how good a lens do I need?

Modern lenses are sharp enough. There is no way we can compare the technology of modern lenses to what we had when we were shooting film. As far as I am concerned I can categorically say that I NEVER used a lens that failed to do its part when I did mine.
I decided to use some images shot around my neighborhood to illustrate that using good technique any lens will yield the results we expect. Not all true behind those comments that modern, high Mp. cameras cannot do well with old lenses. The D-610 has 24 Mp. but other cameras like the D800 does as well with these lenses.

None of these images were shot with modern lenses. As a matter of fact, the image of the old man walking his dog was made using a 1974 Nikon 50mm f1.4 single coated lens. a primitive lens considering modern multicoated lenses. I did not even use the exposure meter and rather I went with the "sunny 16 rule."
The flowers were shot at ISO 640 with the Nikon 105mm f4 from the ealy 70's, no tripod. The backlighted columns were shot with a Nikon 35mm f2 from the early 80's. All of them old, manual lenses using a Nikon D-610 and ALL of them original JPEG images with minimal manipulation during editing with Photoshop.

So, how good a lens do I need?