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<blockquote data-quote="CameraMike" data-source="post: 847952" data-attributes="member: 79709"><p>Your welcome.</p><p></p><p>The D300 rocks, Chavie. I'd like to get one of those too but the D700 will be the next DSLR camera I get. </p><p></p><p>If your Nikon F lenses are manual lenses they will work <strong><span style="font-size: 15px">BUT!!</span></strong> They have to be "AI" (auto indexing) type lenses, <a href="http://www.cameraquest.com/aidaiais.htm" target="_blank">here is what I mean.</a></p><p><a href="http://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/nikortek.htm" target="_blank"> This may shed some light as well (With pictures even).</a></p><p></p><p><img src="http://static.photo.net/attachments/bboard/00K/00KE2A-35337084.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> AI lens. A non-AI lens would be completely flat.</p><p></p><p>Non-AI lenses will break the metering tab on any new nikon camera body with a metering tab. There are some cameras like the F3 where it doesn't matter but that's a old school film camera/tank.</p><p></p><p>Here is a <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/365610@N21/" target="_blank">flickr pool</a> dedicated to the idea of manual leneses on Nikon DSLRs. The pool is full of fanatics ;0) I am there.</p><p></p><p>ALL Nikon AF lenses with an aperture ring have an auto indexing type aperture ring. The newer AF-S lenses don't seem to have aperture rings but I haven't bought any new lenses in a while.</p><p></p><p>So, if your nikon lenses don't work at first on a<em><u> D300</u></em> or a D700, that can be fixed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CameraMike, post: 847952, member: 79709"] Your welcome. The D300 rocks, Chavie. I'd like to get one of those too but the D700 will be the next DSLR camera I get. If your Nikon F lenses are manual lenses they will work [B][SIZE="4"]BUT!![/SIZE][/B] They have to be "AI" (auto indexing) type lenses, [URL="http://www.cameraquest.com/aidaiais.htm"]here is what I mean.[/URL] [URL="http://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/nikortek.htm"] This may shed some light as well (With pictures even).[/URL] [IMG]http://static.photo.net/attachments/bboard/00K/00KE2A-35337084.jpg[/IMG] AI lens. A non-AI lens would be completely flat. Non-AI lenses will break the metering tab on any new nikon camera body with a metering tab. There are some cameras like the F3 where it doesn't matter but that's a old school film camera/tank. Here is a [URL="http://www.flickr.com/groups/365610@N21/"]flickr pool[/URL] dedicated to the idea of manual leneses on Nikon DSLRs. The pool is full of fanatics ;0) I am there. ALL Nikon AF lenses with an aperture ring have an auto indexing type aperture ring. The newer AF-S lenses don't seem to have aperture rings but I haven't bought any new lenses in a while. So, if your nikon lenses don't work at first on a[I][U] D300[/U][/I] or a D700, that can be fixed. [/QUOTE]
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