1HuntnMan Loc: Bluff City, TN, USA

Hey there all,
I'm going to order a new D780 in the next few days. I get different opinions on lens compatibility. Also, thinking on selling my D7000. I have 2 lens, an AF-S NIKKOR 35mm 1:1.8G and an AF-S NIKKOR 18mm-200mm Mini-Zoom. Would you recommend selling these 2 lens with the D7000 or are they compatible with the D780?

Tks & advise,
Donald

BebuLamar

Is your 35mm lens a DX lens too? If so sell them all as you don't want to use DX lenses on FX camera.

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

The D780 will automatically detect a DX lens and crop the image to match the smaller circle of this lens design. That takes your glorious 24MP full-frame camera and turns it into a 10MP crop body, less pixel resolution than your current 16MP D7000.

Get rid of all the DX specific equipment. Don't cry about the low amounts they fetch selling used. Just move them out and move forward confidently into a full-frame future.

Kmgw9v Loc: Miami, Florida

If you sell the 7000, sell the two DX lenses too. You will want, and need FX lenses for the 780.
In time, after acquiring a full frame lens or two, you will be happier with the 780.

uhaas2009

DX Lens will work on your new one but a FX lens on your new body makes quite a different

CO

Definitely get lenses with full frame coverage. As a replacement for the 35mm f/1.8, I would recommend the Tamron 45mm f/1.8 SP VC lens. It has vibration compensation, a metal lens barrel, and is fully weather sealed. The VC is great when you can't use a tripod. I use one on my D750.

Tamron 45mm f/1.8 SP VC on D750

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larryepage Loc: North Texas area

Both of those lenses will cover the 1:1 square format provided by your camera. This will allow you to capture 18MP square images until you decide what lenses you want to purchase. I faced the same issue when I purchased my first full frame Nikon and was deciding how to move forward. I had both DX and FX lenses and was able to continue using all of them on both cameras. The DX lenses are not optimal, but they can produce usable results while you are deciding what to do. The 18-200mm zoom in particular is not a great lens, but can be useful under some circumstances. It actually produces a fairly large image circle and can produce full frame images requiring only minor cropping of the ends of the frame. The D750 offered a 1.2 crop which would have likely worked fine with at least the 18-200mm zoom, but it has been eliminated from the D780.

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Once you get your camera, spend a little time experimenting. It will only take a few minutes to determine definitively exactly which of the lenses will work on your camera, and the extent to which they will work. You will not have to depend on anyone's uninformed opinion.

Best wishes with your new camera.

Kmgw9v Loc: Miami, Florida

Dance around it all you want, call people “clueless” and “ uninformed”—the OP needs and will ultimately only be satisfied when using FX lenses on his new 780. The DX lenses will compromise a full frame body. Mine is not a “knee-jerk reaction”.

Architect1776 Loc: In my mind

Orphoto Loc: Oregon

Some dx lenses come close the full frame coverage, especially the zooms at the longer end. However, in this particular case, the 35 can be sold and a 50 1.8 replacing it for not much difference in money. The 18-200 is of middling optical quality and it's past due for replacement anyway. I vote to sell both.

FiddleMaker Loc: Merrimac, MA

Have you already considered a mirrorless system ? I have a D750 and a mirrorless Fujifilm X-T2 and I find myself using the smaller and lighter X-T2, which is a crop sensor 24 MP body. But Nikon does offer full frame mirrorless bodies.

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

Both of those lenses will work on the D780, the D780 can detect them and can be used but at a loss of pixels. Learn the camera and as you do work toward adding lenses for it. A full frame camera operates best with FF lenses. As you get these new lenses you can then sell your current lenses, that way the financial hit will not be too great.
A very nice lens would be the Nikon 24-120 f4, now this lens is a little heavy but not too bad, you can get one used in very good condition for around $300.00-$450.00 and is a good solid all around lens.
The Nikon prime 1.8 lenses are great and reasonable in price. The 20, 24, 28, 35, 50 and 85 are all great lenses that will serve you for years to come.
Good luck and keep on shooting until the end.

zug55 Loc: Naivasha, Kenya, and Austin, Texas

I would completely agree. A switch from a DX to FX camera body only makes sense if OP is willing to buy FX lenses as well. If OP wants to continue using DX lenses then OP should stick with a DX body.

I was at the same decision point three years ago. A was shooting with a D7100 and wanted to switch to a full-frame camera. I looked into the D780 and D850 and discovered just how large and unsuitable for travel these bodies were. It also dawned on me that I needed to get a completely new set of lenses to have the experience I wanted.

The next step was understanding that I essentially was starting all over and that therefore I was not wedded to the Nikon DSLR environment. The more I researched mirrorless systems the more I realized that this technology would dominate in the future. The Sony A7 III just had been issued, and I grabbed one of the first copies. This was a game changer for me, and I have never looked back.

OP needs to consider whether it is worthwhile to invest in a DSLR system that is technologically obsolete. (This would be a different question if OP already had a bunch of FX lenses). The D780 is a great camera, but there won't be anything coming after that.

All the research in imaging technology today is in mirrorless systems. Therefore I would urge OP to research mirrorless systems--in the meantime, Nikon and Canon have developed good mirrorless systems as well.

Alans844

The 780 is a great camera. Buy a 50mm f1.8 and if you can a 24-120mm. I had a D7000 and the 18-200mm. I have moved D750 and now the 850, And also have D500 which is DX. I kept the 18-200, but never use it. You can get a 28-300mm fx lens, which is moderate quality and will give you the reach of the 18-200mm on the D780.

Kmgw9v Loc: Miami, Florida

I shoot with a Df and an 800E, two very good cameras that perform as well as I need. I also own nine of the best FX lenses Nikon produces. I have considered the 850–but I am not shooting as much as I used to, and I am undecided about going mirrorless. So, I wait.
My advice to the OP was only that he would need FX, not DX, lenses on a 780. Your advice that he reconsider the 780, and research mirrorless systems instead, is more than sound.