Btw, does anyone ever use a Leica lens or Voitglander lens on a Nikon FX or DX camera. Apparently this is impossible.
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You can use the Voigtlander F mount lenses on Nikon, but the M mount lenses from Leica, Zeiss, and Voigtlander will not work on the F mount.
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You can use Leica R (or Reflex) mount lenses on either Nikon (though I believe you need to change the mount rather than buy an adapter). Adapting a Leica M mount or screwmount lenses can be used in close focus/macro images, or there are a very small number of lenses that were designed for Leica's Lieca Visoflex system (these are fairly rare today) which can be adapted (but may require certain fairly rare accessories--Visoflex wasn't all that popular so the accessories weren't widely owned).
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I too have not been able to find an adapter for Leica to Nikon. Nothing is impossible, but most improbable. Good luck.
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There are some adapters to make that happen. Of course fulltime manual, focus and light metering, aperture all manual. I bought the Leica M to NEX mount and it works flawlessly ( I use it with a Zeiss Planar). It also worked for my XPro-1 Fuji.
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Yes but I believe you are paying a premium price to put an fx lens on a dx body. That is an opinion not presented as fact.
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I don't know if this will help, but I have an older Kenko 2X Pro 300, but it's not the DGX model. I have a new Nikon 28-300 FX lens. They work just fine, but AF doesn't work from 50-300mm. It does work from 28-50mm. That's useless, of course. You need the TC at the 300 end, not the 28 end. It does take good pictures, though there is some degradation in the image quality. A little less contrast, for one thing. A little tweaking in a photo editor can fix most of that, though.
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bought my nikon d40 lately. read good things about the camera through kenrockwell site. it helps me a lot to decide. now am thinking of buying the nikkor 18-200mm VR lense. btw the 50mm f1/4 lense and d40 they say is compatible. but am not so sure how to install the lense in the camera. any suggestions?
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A word about the D800. I downloaded the 20 megabite sample jpeg image files nikon provides and tried my hand at working with them in photoshop and Topaz filters. I see some color banding in the shadows, hmm? Has any one else tried working them?The other thing is that I noticed is with 36mp images at 20MB's your post processing times to slow to a crawl.
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You can buy a lens that is not DX and many will work fine. This one above will not auto focus. The Nikon AF and AF-D will not work on a camera that does not have an internal focus motor, like the D3100. The later lenses, AF-S, will work and auto focus. If the lens is an FX you will not get an image that is as wide and tall as what you see in the finder on a DX camera. You will get a good sharp image but you must compose more carefully to avoid the DX sensor cropping out vital parts of the image the FX lens can see.
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you can use DX lenses on a FX camera in DX crop mode, but it's not the optimal solution, since you dont get the benefit of full resolution. in my opinion, you are much better off buying a full frame lens such as the nikon or tamron 24-70/2.8 lenses. yes i know they are expensive but that's what you bought into when you bought a $3000 camera. expecting to use a $500 lens on it with full functionality is just not realistic.
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Yes. It works with all Nikon DSLRs whether DX or FX. The combination of the 24-85mm with the Nikon D2X, a DX camera, should produce excellent results due to the smaller size of the image sensor, which is not as demanding as larger FX image sensors.
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Hi, not sure where the problem would be - I have it on the D90 and it's one of the best lenses I have in my bag (actually, it's not much in the bag ;-) ) ... what is your concern?
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I'm currently using this lens with Nikon D5200, just get the nikon mount and you're sorted. Very sharp results if you do your part :)
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I also have this slow focus problem on my D300 and D700. Slower focusing than any other lens I have used. Anyone heard about a fix for this yet?
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The lens that I bought was for a D5200 . Dx mount. It works on my D7100 also.Like I said Dx mount not Fx.
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I wouldn't put this on a DX camera. Lenses like this always contain compromises and the compromises made in this lens - some of which make this a $1000 lens - are optimized for FX. I'm very happy with it on my D750, but for DX I'd look more towards the 18-200, which covers a similar equivalent zoom range on DX.
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What camera body are you using? I have adapters for all my OM lenses to be used on a Nikon body and an adapter to use my Bronica lenses on the Nikon body. I haven't had a ton of time to shoot lately, but they all mount well with the adapter.
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Yeah you can be they don't work as well as a Nikon lens. The cheapest Nikon lens will work better because it will be able to communicate with the camera.
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I just received my D800 a couple weeks ago. Almost all my images are out of focus, even with simple portraits. I haven't contacted Nikon yet because I'm attempting to return the camera.
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My setup is the same. However, I am using a D5100, a DX body and an FX lens. I believe this is causing the problem. Are you using an FX body?