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D3400
Using non cpu lenses on the D3400?
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<blockquote data-quote="Bob Blaylock" data-source="post: 657598" data-attributes="member: 16749"><p>Unless something relevant has significantly changed from the D3200 to the D3400, you should be able to use non-CPU lenses just fine with it, albeit with some expected limitations. They will, of course, only work in M mode, and you have to operate everything manually. You need to know how to set the ISO, shutter speed, and aperture manually, and how to determine appropriate values for these settings.</p><p></p><p> Using old, non-CPU lenses on modern DSLRs can work quite well, but you really need to know what you're doing to make it work.</p><p></p><p></p><p> By the way, you manual almost certainly contains the claim that non-AI lenses cannot be used with your camera. These are lenses made before 1978, when Nikon changed the way that lenses communicated their aperture settings to the camera. No camera that depends on the AI coupling is fully compatible with the non-AI lenses, and some can even be damaged by trying to mount non-AI lenses on them. Nikon claims that the DF is the only DSLR model that can be used at all with non-AI lenses. Most of the higher models can be damaged, as I said, by trying to mount non-AI lenses on them, because the non-AI lens conflicts with the AI coupling tab on the camera. This turns out not to be an issue with the D3xx or D5xx models, because they do not have an AI coupling tab. It has been my experience that non-AI lenses work just fine on my D3200, albeit with exactly the same expected limitations that pertain to any non-CPU lenses. I can think of no good reason why the same should not be equally true of your D3400.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bob Blaylock, post: 657598, member: 16749"] Unless something relevant has significantly changed from the D3200 to the D3400, you should be able to use non-CPU lenses just fine with it, albeit with some expected limitations. They will, of course, only work in M mode, and you have to operate everything manually. You need to know how to set the ISO, shutter speed, and aperture manually, and how to determine appropriate values for these settings. Using old, non-CPU lenses on modern DSLRs can work quite well, but you really need to know what you're doing to make it work. By the way, you manual almost certainly contains the claim that non-AI lenses cannot be used with your camera. These are lenses made before 1978, when Nikon changed the way that lenses communicated their aperture settings to the camera. No camera that depends on the AI coupling is fully compatible with the non-AI lenses, and some can even be damaged by trying to mount non-AI lenses on them. Nikon claims that the DF is the only DSLR model that can be used at all with non-AI lenses. Most of the higher models can be damaged, as I said, by trying to mount non-AI lenses on them, because the non-AI lens conflicts with the AI coupling tab on the camera. This turns out not to be an issue with the D3xx or D5xx models, because they do not have an AI coupling tab. It has been my experience that non-AI lenses work just fine on my D3200, albeit with exactly the same expected limitations that pertain to any non-CPU lenses. I can think of no good reason why the same should not be equally true of your D3400. [/QUOTE]
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