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<blockquote data-quote="Horoscope Fish" data-source="post: 150702" data-attributes="member: 13090"><p>Well, understand this isn't going to be cheap... The <a href="http://www.nikonusa.com/en/Nikon-Products/Product/Lens-Adapters/3613/FT1-Mount-Adapter.html" target="_blank">Nikon J1 Adapter</a> is almost $300. Then you'll need to add the cost of a lens. The J1 has a series of zooms, but the maximum focal length is 110mm and that's not much. The converter, above, will let you use Nikon F-Mount lenses and that opens up a lot of choices for you. F-mount lenses, attached to the J1, have a crop factor of 2.7x so a lens with a focal length of, say, 100mm will actually work like a lens of 270mm. That being the case you could attach the Nikon 55-200mm f4-5.6G ED AF-S, which is going for <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Nikon-55-200mm-f4-5-6G-AF-S-Nikkor/dp/B0009HN57Y/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1368880770&amp;sr=8-2" target="_blank">$150 on Amazon</a> right now, and have an effective focal length of 148-540mm.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Horoscope Fish, post: 150702, member: 13090"] Well, understand this isn't going to be cheap... The [URL="http://www.nikonusa.com/en/Nikon-Products/Product/Lens-Adapters/3613/FT1-Mount-Adapter.html"]Nikon J1 Adapter[/URL] is almost $300. Then you'll need to add the cost of a lens. The J1 has a series of zooms, but the maximum focal length is 110mm and that's not much. The converter, above, will let you use Nikon F-Mount lenses and that opens up a lot of choices for you. F-mount lenses, attached to the J1, have a crop factor of 2.7x so a lens with a focal length of, say, 100mm will actually work like a lens of 270mm. That being the case you could attach the Nikon 55-200mm f4-5.6G ED AF-S, which is going for [URL="http://www.amazon.com/Nikon-55-200mm-f4-5-6G-AF-S-Nikkor/dp/B0009HN57Y/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1368880770&sr=8-2"]$150 on Amazon[/URL] right now, and have an effective focal length of 148-540mm. [/QUOTE]

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