Moving to Mirrorless (Page 2): OK, I'll agree. As the OP had a D7200 (?) there would be the same restriction? (I forget as I never owned a 7200).

cjc2 Loc: Hellertown PA

User ID wrote:

Slight addendum: make that "full frame F mount lenses with IN-LENS focus motors".

OK, I'll agree. As the OP had a D7200 (?) there would be the same restriction? (I forget as I never owned a 7200).

BebuLamar

User ID wrote:

THAT !! would be rather astounding.

The lesson here is that the UHH clown car is not necessarily better than that camera store clerk. Its perfectly possible that the OPs DX lens is a shaft drive AF lens and therefor will not AF on the FTZ converter. Photo attached.

I don't know for sure but I don't think threre is a DX lens that is shaft drive?

chrisg-optical Loc: New York, NY

You would just have to put the Z6 or any FF Nikon in crop mode to use DX lenses, otherwise the image would have vignetting - black corners. In DX mode the Z6 is about 10 mp. You will also need the FTZ adapter to use any of the F mount lenses. Best to use FF lenses with the Z6, whether F or Z mount.

chrisg-optical Loc: New York, NY

BebuLamar wrote:

I don't know for sure but I don't think threre is a DX lens that is shaft drive?

I don't think so either - all of the DX lenses I have seen are more recent vintage either AF-S or AF-P.

DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA

chrisg-optical wrote:

You would just have to put the Z6 or any FF Nikon in crop mode to use DX lenses, otherwise the image would have vignetting - black corners. In DX mode the Z6 is about 10 mp. You will also need the FTZ adapter to use any of the F mount lenses. Best to use FF lenses with the Z6, whether F or Z mount.

You don’t necessarily get vignetting using a DX lens on an FX camera in FX mode. You’re likely to get focus issues in the corners (not black corners) but some DX zoom lenses will work fine for FX at the longer focal lengths. (e.g. Nikon 17-55 f/2.8)

blthomas438 Loc: Lewisberry Pennsylvania

Djacks1 wrote:

Attempting to go from Nikon D7200 to Nikon Z6 and totally confused about what I’ve been told. Person at Photo shop says i absolutely cannot use my current Nikon DX lens on the Z6. Others say i can use them with the Z mount attachment but i will lose resolution and it will be cropped differently. So, what’s the truth?

Hi Djacks,
I have been doing photography and using Nikon's since 1979 when I purchased my Nikon FE. My current body's are D850 and D500 I use them in my part-time professional photography busines. Body are fantastic cameras.and their booth built like tanks. Feel great in the hand and the added weight helps balance the FX lenses. I have lenses for both body. After saying this. I have held and shot with Nikon's Z6ll and a Z7 both barrowed from a relative. Neither one feels as solid or has the ergonomics of my Nikon's.
Before you decide to buy play with the Z6 and make sure you like the way it feels and fits your hands. To avoid the huge cost of changing to Z lenses consider a Nikon D500 or 7500, booth can be purchased in excellent condition used. A great sorce is B&H photo video or KEH. I have purchased gear from both of them. My D500 & 850 I purchased New from B&H. But I have purchased several used lenses from both companies. Plus both B&H, KEH are very knowledgeable and customer service is top notch. I hope this helps. Any decision you make will make you happy.

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DirtFarmer wrote:

You don’t necessarily get vignetting using a DX lens on an FX camera. You’re likely to get focus issues in the corners (not black corners) but some DX zoom lenses will work fine for FX at the longer focal lengths.

I enjoy that "bonus coverage" on my FF SLRs, but unfortunately its not possible on my Zs, which will automatically crop to DX and have no menu option for the user to defeat that. Reeeeally sucksbad.

Geeks will point out that the bonus coverage areas have compromised IQ. My boss was so geeky that there were jobs he just couldnt do but I can pop them out like Sunday morning donuts when he passed them to me.

My beloved DX 10-24 is adapted to my Sony a7xxx bodies cuz Sony is toadally waaaaay much more real world smarter than Nikon. I necer owned a DX body. I bought the 10-24 to use IN FX MODE on my D750. Maybe the OP here should keep his DX lens but get an a7xxx instead of a Z6II.

PHRubin Loc: Nashville TN USA

GVC48507 wrote:

Your DX lenses will work on your Z camera using the F2Z adapter. The camera will automatically go into DX mode, using only a portion of the full frame sensor. I went from D 7000 to Z 7ii and have been unable to to find an override to keep it in FX mode. You lose resolution because of DX mode, your 24 Mb sensor will only use 1/1.5 of its sensor (16 Mb). All my F mount lenses work on my Z 7ii. The only issue is with lenses that require the AF motor on the camera; you have to manual focus.

Almost 100% right. The effective reduction is 1/1.5 for both length and width, so the reduced (cropped) image should be about only 10.66 MB.

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The first line of the OPs opener post takes the D500 and D850 off the table. Hes moving on from SLRs so nothing accomplished by buying all over again what he currently already uses.

User ID

Djacks1 wrote:

Attempting to go from Nikon D7200 to Nikon Z6 and totally confused about what I’ve been told. Person at Photo shop says i absolutely cannot use my current Nikon DX lens on the Z6. Others say i can use them with the Z mount attachment but i will lose resolution and it will be cropped differently. So, what’s the truth?

Your DX lens or lenses is or are both singular and plural in your post. Which version is reality has some bearing on what to do next.

One lonely lens is easy to walk away from. A single lens could easily be worth less than the adapter that enables you to use that lens.

Multiple lenses are greater justification of the cost of the adapter even if those lenses just happen to be economy models. Collectively they tend to be worth keeping cuz multiple replacements gets tedious and costly, plus a good working group offers utility value thaz beyond simply the cold cash sum of its parts.

ricardo00

Djacks1 wrote:

Attempting to go from Nikon D7200 to Nikon Z6 and totally confused about what I’ve been told. Person at Photo shop says i absolutely cannot use my current Nikon DX lens on the Z6. Others say i can use them with the Z mount attachment but i will lose resolution and it will be cropped differently. So, what’s the truth?

When you say Nikon Z6, do you mean the Z6 II? Hopefully not model I? Just so you know, a model III is likely to be announced soon. So there should be a discount on model II and you should be able to buy a Z6 II with a Z lens for a discount as well.

MJPerini

Perhaps a better question is why would you want to spend the money on a Full Frame camera, if the only lens you have will only use less than half of the sensor? And That is still an if because many dx lenses will work but not all.

Additionally the Z6 has been replaced by the Z6II and I read that there may be a Z6 III in the works (but do not know if that is true)
If you really want the Z6, trade your camera & lens and buy one of Nikon's Kit Zooms which are relatively inexpensive and will give you a Full Frame Camera

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ricardo00 wrote:

When you say Nikon Z6, do you mean the Z6 II? Hopefully not model I? Just so you know, a model III is likely to be announced soon. So there should be a discount on model II and you should be able to buy a Z6 II with a Z lens for a discount as well.

Orrrr .... the Z6 dives down further in price and thus becomes the default best buy.

Sony currently sells its a7II, III, and IV all at once with a really wide price spread (maybe they built too many too fast ?) such that the oldest, with lens, is dirt cheap. The oldest Z6 could end up likewise. (Maybe the OP really just needs an oldish but new a7II ?!?)

OldCADuser Loc: Irvine, CA

Djacks1 wrote:

Attempting to go from Nikon D7200 to Nikon Z6 and totally confused about what I’ve been told. Person at Photo shop says i absolutely cannot use my current Nikon DX lens on the Z6. Others say i can use them with the Z mount attachment but i will lose resolution and it will be cropped differently. So, what’s the truth?

I can't speak for Nikon, but when I moved from my Sony A-mount DSLR to the E-mount Sony mirrorless cameras I considered getting an adapter so that I could use my A-mount medium telephoto and wide-angle zooms lens. However, once I thought about it for a minute (or less) I decided that this would defeat the whole purpose of going mirrorless. That is, to have a smaller, lighter camera with the accompanying smaller, lighter lens. Granted, I had already invested in several A-mount lens, but I bit the bullet and stuck with using only E-mount lens even though I had to go out and buy replacements.

Note that every time I have to move my DSLR field bag, with it's two additional lens, it reinforces why I chose to buy new glass rather then using an adapter when I went mirrorless.

ricardo00

[quote=User ID]Orrrr .... the Z6 dives down further in price and thus becomes the default best buy.

The Z6 model I is no longer being sold by "reputable" stores. So unless this store has an old model I that it is trying to get rid of, it should be a model II. If it is a model I, for sure it should be heavily discounted. Whether that makes it a "best buy" isn't clear to me, there are improvements in the II that one wouldn't get.