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How do you use OLD Manual Focus Nikon Lenses on the D3300?
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<blockquote data-quote="STM" data-source="post: 717447" data-attributes="member: 12827"><p>My first question is, how many MF lenses do you plan to use with this body? If you plan to use several or use this lens frequently I would suggest getting an inexpensive hand held incident light meter. Since the D3300 lacks the meter coupling follower around the lens mount, you will not be able to full aperture meter. The lack of a depth of field button also precludes the use of stopped down metering. You can no doubt find a simple incident meter on a site like Ebay for $50-$100, though you can go <em>much</em> higher if you want one that reads flash exposure as well. Your last alternative would be to use one of your AF lenses and get a manual exposure, mount the MF lens and just transfer the aperture setting to it. That is cumbersome and time consuming. I would recommend the incident meter. </p><p></p><p>I own only 1 AFs lens, the rest of my 23 lenses are MF AI/AIS so I have lots of experience using these older but still superlative lenses! I am not really familiar with this body, but if you plan to use the MF lenses a lot you might also want to look into getting a microprism/split image focusing screen from focusingscreen.com. I just checked and they do have one for the D3300. It runs about $75 plus a little for shipping. DSLR screens, even the one on my otherwise superlative D850, are not very well suited for manual focusing and it is too cumbersome to use the focusing indicator if you need to focus quickly. I have found that they are also not as accurate or discriminating as a microprism/split image screen.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="STM, post: 717447, member: 12827"] My first question is, how many MF lenses do you plan to use with this body? If you plan to use several or use this lens frequently I would suggest getting an inexpensive hand held incident light meter. Since the D3300 lacks the meter coupling follower around the lens mount, you will not be able to full aperture meter. The lack of a depth of field button also precludes the use of stopped down metering. You can no doubt find a simple incident meter on a site like Ebay for $50-$100, though you can go [I]much[/I] higher if you want one that reads flash exposure as well. Your last alternative would be to use one of your AF lenses and get a manual exposure, mount the MF lens and just transfer the aperture setting to it. That is cumbersome and time consuming. I would recommend the incident meter. I own only 1 AFs lens, the rest of my 23 lenses are MF AI/AIS so I have lots of experience using these older but still superlative lenses! I am not really familiar with this body, but if you plan to use the MF lenses a lot you might also want to look into getting a microprism/split image focusing screen from focusingscreen.com. I just checked and they do have one for the D3300. It runs about $75 plus a little for shipping. DSLR screens, even the one on my otherwise superlative D850, are not very well suited for manual focusing and it is too cumbersome to use the focusing indicator if you need to focus quickly. I have found that they are also not as accurate or discriminating as a microprism/split image screen. [/QUOTE]
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