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D3400 lens question
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<blockquote data-quote="lokatz" data-source="post: 638242" data-attributes="member: 43924"><p>Hi Ken, Since you said you're looking to 'get back' into photography, I assume you may not be that familiar with the digital nomenclature, so let me add a few explanations that might make the feedback you got so far easier to understand: </p><p></p><p>Your N65 was what is referred to as a full-frame camera for standard 36x24mm film. Nikon calls this FX. In the digital world, there are many FX cameras that have sensors of the same size, 36x24mm. There is also a smaller variant called DX with a size of 24x18mm. The D3400 is a DX camera, so it has that smaller sensor. Because of the smaller sensor, the effective focal length of lenses gets extended by a factor of 1.5x on these cameras, so your old lenses now effectively work as 42-120mm and 105mm-450mm ones on the D3400.</p><p></p><p>As others have pointed out, all of your old lenses will only work with manual focus on the D3400, with autofocus not possible. If that's fine for you, keep your old lenses and be happy with them. Otherwise, I suggest to consider buying something like Sigma's 18-200mm lens, which means the equivalent of 27-300mm in the FX world and thus gives you almost the same range you had in the past, except that you now need only one lens instead of two.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="lokatz, post: 638242, member: 43924"] Hi Ken, Since you said you're looking to 'get back' into photography, I assume you may not be that familiar with the digital nomenclature, so let me add a few explanations that might make the feedback you got so far easier to understand: Your N65 was what is referred to as a full-frame camera for standard 36x24mm film. Nikon calls this FX. In the digital world, there are many FX cameras that have sensors of the same size, 36x24mm. There is also a smaller variant called DX with a size of 24x18mm. The D3400 is a DX camera, so it has that smaller sensor. Because of the smaller sensor, the effective focal length of lenses gets extended by a factor of 1.5x on these cameras, so your old lenses now effectively work as 42-120mm and 105mm-450mm ones on the D3400. As others have pointed out, all of your old lenses will only work with manual focus on the D3400, with autofocus not possible. If that's fine for you, keep your old lenses and be happy with them. Otherwise, I suggest to consider buying something like Sigma's 18-200mm lens, which means the equivalent of 27-300mm in the FX world and thus gives you almost the same range you had in the past, except that you now need only one lens instead of two. [/QUOTE]
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