Hello from Annapolis MD

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eastside

Senior Member
I bought my first digital camera two weeks ago---the D750. I have been doing photography for 40 years using an F2 and an F3. It is strickly a hobby. I am anxious to get started. Do any of you more experienced users know what I will be giving up by using my two non-AF lenses on the 750. I know I will not be able to autofocus; but that is fine because I have been doing manual focusing for 40 years. But are there other capabilities I will not be able to use? And what are they?

Thanks,
eastside
 
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Don Kuykendall_RIP

RIP :(
Welcome To the group.

A lot of it depends on what the lenses are. Some of them might lose some of the other automatic features or even the ability to use the light meter functions.
 
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Whiskeyman

Senior Member
Welcome to nikonites.com.

If the lenses aren't chipped, then you won't get metadata of the lens settings to the camera.

Be advised, unless you've used a plain screen without any focusing aids in your old cameras, it is considered by most to be more difficult to focus a digital camera than most film cameras. (These usually had some focusing aid, such as a split screen to help with focusing.)

Enjoy your new camera and your old lenses, but I believe that you'll want to upgrade your old lenses to use the autofocus features now available to you.

WM
 
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