Nikon D850 lens compatibility: I am planning to upgrade my D7500 to a full frame D850. Can anyone tell me if it is compatible with my current lenses? I have a Nikon 80-200 1:4-5.6 G...

BK-ALA

I am planning to upgrade my D7500 to a full frame D850. Can anyone tell me if it is compatible with my current lenses? I have a Nikon 80-200 1:4-5.6 G ED, an 18-200 1:3-5.6 GII ED DX and a 20 MM 1:1.8 G ED. Thanks for any help you can give me!

ScottWardwell Loc: Maine

BK-ALA wrote:

I am planning to upgrade my D7500 to a full frame D850. Can anyone tell me if it is compatible with my current lenses? I have a Nikon 80-200 1:4-5.6 G ED, an 18-200 1:3-5.6 GII ED DX and a 20 MM 1:1.8 G ED. Thanks for any help you can give me!

All are compatible. The 18-200 DX is best used on your crop sensor D7500. Mated to a D850, it automatically crops the field-of-view down to about 16mm x 24mm from the full-frame standard of 36mm x 24mm. The file sizes will be the same as you would get from a D500 at 20 meg instead of 45 meg.
You will also notice that your field-of-view for the other two lenses on the 850 will be half again as wide as they appeared on the 7500.

mwsilvers Loc: Central New Jersey

BK-ALA wrote:

I am planning to upgrade my D7500 to a full frame D850. Can anyone tell me if it is compatible with my current lenses? I have a Nikon 80-200 1:4-5.6 G ED, an 18-200 1:3-5.6 GII ED DX and a 20 MM 1:1.8 G ED. Thanks for any help you can give me!

They should work fine with a D850, but frankly if you are not planning on acquiring more appropriate lenses for the D850 than your very old and mediocre 80-200mm and the crop sensor 18-200, you would be wasting your money. If you have no budget for more appropriate quality lenses as such as fast primes or a 24-70 f/2.8, etc, you might as well stay with the D7500. The D850 is a terrific professional level DSLR but without better glass in front of it you will gain very little by purchasing one.

larryepage Loc: North Texas area

BK-ALA wrote:

I am planning to upgrade my D7500 to a full frame D850. Can anyone tell me if it is compatible with my current lenses? I have a Nikon 80-200 1:4-5.6 G ED, an 18-200 1:3-5.6 GII ED DX and a 20 MM 1:1.8 G ED. Thanks for any help you can give me!

You are going to get some good answers to your question, but you are also going to get some very ill-informed ones. Your D850 will give you a lot of flexibility in deciding what to do with DX lenses. Unlike some other brands and models, you do not have to automatically crop to DX on this camera. There are at least four formats from which you can choose, including 24x24mm square format and a 4:3 choice, among others. The 18-200 actually produces a fairly large image circle. I've used this lens on my D850, and it can produce very serviceable results.

You can find direct access to the shooting format choices by pressing the "i" button on the back of the camera. You may have to go into the Shooting Menu and disable the auto crop to DX.

Also...while your D850 will make very good use of the best lenses, it will also get better result from any lens you have than it has produced on any other camera.

Check your options in the manual. Ignore about 95% of what comes back here.

Bill_de Loc: US

BK-ALA wrote:

I am planning to upgrade my D7500 to a full frame D850. Can anyone tell me if it is compatible with my current lenses? I have a Nikon 80-200 1:4-5.6 G ED, an 18-200 1:3-5.6 GII ED DX and a 20 MM 1:1.8 G ED. Thanks for any help you can give me!

I don't believe the Nikon 80-200 1:4-5.6 G ED, is a G lens. My thought is that it is either a Nikkor AFs 70-200 G, or a Nikkor AF 80-200mm 1: 4.5-5.6D.

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larryepage Loc: North Texas area

Bill_de wrote:

I don't believe the Nikon 80-200 1:4-5.6 G ED, is a G lens. My thought is that it is either a Nikkor AFs 70-200 G, or a Nikkor AF 80-200mm 1: 4.5-5.6D.

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Either way, if it works on his D7500, it should work on a D850.

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

Seems the Nikon users are hiding some relevant technical details of using your DX lenses on a full-frame D850. What are you about to pay for this 45MP full frame camera, $2500? More / less?

What'd you pay for your 20MP D7500? $1400? More / less?

When you shoot your "compatible" DX lenses on a full frame 45MP D850, what happens? Well, the camera needs to crop the black circle away because of the smaller image circle of a "compatible" DX lens. That's going to give you a 5408×3600-pixel image, yep, an image file at 19MP, that's a step down from the D7500.

Is that what you see to accomplish with a D850? You need to price and upgrade your lenses, at least for something in the 24-120 range.

mwsilvers Loc: Central New Jersey

larryepage wrote:

You are going to get some good answers to your que... (show quote)

All you said is correct, however, the glass he has will not allow him to get the best from that expensive new camera body. My suggestion was that if he has no plans or budget to upgrade his glass he might as well stay with the very competent D7500 and save himself the large expense and leaning curve. Alternatively, he may be better served spending that money on better glass for the D7500.

larryepage Loc: North Texas area

CHG_CANON wrote:

Seems the Nikon users are hiding some relevant tec... (show quote)

Paul...that is simply not true. Using square format, the camera will produce an image of about 30MP, and it will be bright all the way out to the corners. The 18-200 will also cover a 30x24 5:4 format. It may darken a tiny bit in the corners at some focal lengths. Results are a bit less than premier, but more than serviceable.

The point is that this camera will use DX lenses just fine, either during a transition period, or in an emergency, or as a choice, unlike Canon full frame cameras and Nikon MILCs. Unlike most who reply to these questions, I have actually tried these lenses on this camera and know what will work.

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

larryepage wrote:

Paul...that is simply not true. Using square forma... (show quote)

$2500 to find out you're wrong? LOL

Architect1776 Loc: In my mind

BK-ALA wrote:

I am planning to upgrade my D7500 to a full frame D850. Can anyone tell me if it is compatible with my current lenses? I have a Nikon 80-200 1:4-5.6 G ED, an 18-200 1:3-5.6 GII ED DX and a 20 MM 1:1.8 G ED. Thanks for any help you can give me!

Why not a Z6II and with the 1K in savings get a FF Z lens to replace the crop lens.
Your 80-200mm will work just fine.
The AF will be far better and it is a modern camera vs an old one.
Just a thought.

larryepage Loc: North Texas area

BK-ALA wrote:

I am planning to upgrade my D7500 to a full frame D850. Can anyone tell me if it is compatible with my current lenses? I have a Nikon 80-200 1:4-5.6 G ED, an 18-200 1:3-5.6 GII ED DX and a 20 MM 1:1.8 G ED. Thanks for any help you can give me!

BK--the Kool Ade is getting too toxic, and folks are working hard to lead you to an incorrect conclusion. I suggest that you take your lenses to a brick and mortar camera store and try them for yourself to see what really happens and whether the performance of ypur lenses on a D850 is acceptable to you. PM if you have questions. No need for further discussion here.

bikinkawboy Loc: north central Missouri

If the 850 is like my D800, when using a DX lens you can set the menu to either crop the image to produce more or less the same image you would get on a DX camera. The 800 is 36mp and when set to crop to the DX size image, it produces a jpeg image of approximately 10 mp. With a FX lens it produces a jpeg of approximately 16 mp or so. With the menu set that way, it automatically crop anytime you screw on a DX lens.

As mentioned, you can set the menu to not automatically crop when a DX lens is used. My experience has been that when using DX lenses on the 800, some zooms will vignette at certain focal lengths but not others. My DX fixed focal length lenses do not crop at all, or at least the lenses that I have. So if you have some good DX lenses, they will still be good lenses.

gcolegate1

larryepage wrote:

You are going to get some good answers to your que... (show quote)

I think your info is in the 95%, I’d never use a DX lens on my D850.

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

BK-ALA wrote:

I am planning to upgrade my D7500 to a full frame D850. Can anyone tell me if it is compatible with my current lenses? I have a Nikon 80-200 1:4-5.6 G ED, an 18-200 1:3-5.6 GII ED DX and a 20 MM 1:1.8 G ED. Thanks for any help you can give me!

Here you go, look until your hearts content.
https://www.nikonusa.com/images/learn-explore/photography-techniques/2011/which-nikkor-is-right-for-you/media/nikkor-lens-compatibility-chart.pdf