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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bob Blaylock" data-source="post: 257554" data-attributes="member: 16749">If he's describing the camera as a “Nikon F2 photomic 35mm film camera that I purchased new back in the early 70's”, then he's surely discussing one of the pre-AI variants, and it's likely that most of the lenses he has for it are also pre-AI.  In fact,I think that the term “Nikon F2 Photomic ” refers specifically to the same exact model that I have, the F2 with the DP-1 finder, which is the earliest metering finder with the mechanical needle movement; with the “Photomic” name distinguishing it from the base model with the DE-1 finder that had no light meter at all.  There were also the DP-2 and DP-3 finders, which had LED-based displays, and made the whole camera an F2S or F2SB respectively, and there were the newer AI-based DP-11 and DP-12 finders which had needle and LED displays respectively, and which made the whole camera an F2A or an F2AS, respectively.  I believe that “officially”, the dF is the only model that is supposed to be able to use pre-AI lenses.  I know that the manual for my D3200 claims that non-AI lenses cannot be used on it.  I also know that I have used non-AI lenses on my D3200, and they work just fine, albeit with the same obvious limitations that all non-CPU lenses would have.  I'm given to understand that there are some bodies that can be damaged by mounting non-AI lenses on them, but I am unclear as to what distinguishes those that have this vulneability from those, like my D3200, that will accept AI lenses with no such issue.</blockquote>

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