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35mm Lenses with use of Modern Digital Nikon Cameras
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<blockquote data-quote="Bob Blaylock" data-source="post: 323649" data-attributes="member: 16749"><p>Contrary to what Nikon claims, even old non-AI lenses work just fine on the D3200, albeit with the same obvious and expected limitations as with early AI and AI-converted lenses. They won't autofocus, of course, and no, there's no exposure metering either with them.</p><p></p><p> In fact, as far as I can tell, there is no way at all for it to possibly make any difference to a D3200 whether a lens is AI or non-AI. I'm given to understand that with some cameras, that have the mechanism to detect aperture settings via the AI linkage, that a non-AI lens can damage that camera, but there is no such linkage to damage on the D3200.</p><p></p><p> I have three old non-AI lenses that go with my equally-ancient F2, that I occasionally use on my D3200.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p> It's probably easiest to just realize that because of the smaller sensor in DX-format cameras, that the lens has an effective magnification about the same as a lens with a focal length about 1.55 times longer on a 35MM or FX-format camera. While a 50mm lens is considered the “standard” focal length on a 35mm/FX camera, a 32mm to 35mm lens gives about the same field of view on a DX camera, and a 50mm lens mounted on a DX camera has about the same field of view as an 80mm lens on a 35mm or FX camera.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bob Blaylock, post: 323649, member: 16749"] Contrary to what Nikon claims, even old non-AI lenses work just fine on the D3200, albeit with the same obvious and expected limitations as with early AI and AI-converted lenses. They won't autofocus, of course, and no, there's no exposure metering either with them. In fact, as far as I can tell, there is no way at all for it to possibly make any difference to a D3200 whether a lens is AI or non-AI. I'm given to understand that with some cameras, that have the mechanism to detect aperture settings via the AI linkage, that a non-AI lens can damage that camera, but there is no such linkage to damage on the D3200. I have three old non-AI lenses that go with my equally-ancient F2, that I occasionally use on my D3200. It's probably easiest to just realize that because of the smaller sensor in DX-format cameras, that the lens has an effective magnification about the same as a lens with a focal length about 1.55 times longer on a 35MM or FX-format camera. While a 50mm lens is considered the “standard” focal length on a 35mm/FX camera, a 32mm to 35mm lens gives about the same field of view on a DX camera, and a 50mm lens mounted on a DX camera has about the same field of view as an 80mm lens on a 35mm or FX camera. [/QUOTE]
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