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Will D50's light meter work with Nikkor 50mm f1.4?
Would my D50's light meter work with a Nikkor 50mm f1.4 manual focus lens?
Thanks for any info... Scott |
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Will D50's light meter work with Nikkor 50mm f1.4?
Scott Speck wrote: Would my D50's light meter work with a Nikkor 50mm f1.4 manual focus lens? no |
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Will D50's light meter work with Nikkor 50mm f1.4?
"Scott Speck" writes:
Would my D50's light meter work with a Nikkor 50mm f1.4 manual focus lens? Thanks for any info... Nope, it won't. On a digital it's pretty easy to set exposures by guess *and then verify with the LCD / histogram*, but that's not good enough for some things (where there's only one chance, often). I used old manual focus lenses a lot on my Fuji S2 even though it wouldn't meter with them, but I'm glad my D200 supports metering through them. -- David Dyer-Bennet, , http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/ RKBA: http://www.dd-b.net/carry/ Pics: http://dd-b.lighthunters.net/ http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/ Dragaera/Steven Brust: http://dragaera.info/ |
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Will D50's light meter work with Nikkor 50mm f1.4?
According to Scott Speck :
Would my D50's light meter work with a Nikkor 50mm f1.4 manual focus lens? Not only would the metering not work, but you possibly would not even be able to mount the lens on the camera without damaging something. If the lens is one of the older ones made for the Nikon-F, without the "AI" (Aperture Indexed) aperture ring, it would bind on the sensor near the stop-down button on the front of the camera body (or does the D50 even have that button). Anyway -- it is a little black piece of plastic projecting from about the 7:00 position when you view the lens mount from the lens side of things. It senses whether or not the aperture ring is set to minimum aperture, to allow the camera body to fully control the aperture throughout the range. Note that your "kit" lenses will have no aperture ring, but they convince the body that things are fine via the communication through the electrical interface contacts. However, there are AF 50mm f1.4 lenses. I picked up one used about a year ago for $100.00 from the local camera store. To the left of the focus window it is marked "Nikon" "AF NIKKOR", and to the right it is marked "50mm" and "1:1.4". It has pretty much the same markings around the lens front element. Not only does it mount with no problems, but it meters properly as well. And it works very nicely for low light photography. Good Luck, DoN. -- Email: | Voice (all times): (703) 938-4564 (too) near Washington D.C. | http://www.d-and-d.com/dnichols/DoN.html --- Black Holes are where God is dividing by zero --- |
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