Film lens on DX for portraits

[fmw]

Yeah I have a D3300 so any lens like a pre-ai AIS etc mounts and doesn't have metering.
Which honestly, for portraits, would probably speed things up the same way as autofocus does (autofocus with certain focus points selected, not just "let's hope this focuses on the eyes!") haha

Not so. Any Nikkor AF lens will provide full metering. Any AI lens will provide both manual and aperture priority metering. The pre AI lenses can't index to the meter. All of the later ones can. What you will lose with a non AF-S lens is autofocus.

 

[thephotobud]

Yeah I have a D3300 so any lens like a pre-ai AIS etc mounts and doesn't have metering.
Which honestly, for portraits, would probably speed things up the same way as autofocus does (autofocus with certain focus points selected, not just "let's hope this focuses on the eyes!") haha

Not so. Any Nikkor AF lens will provide full metering. Any AI lens will provide both manual and aperture priority metering. The pre AI lenses can't index to the meter. All of the later ones can. What you will lose with a non AF-S lens is autofocus.

I think I may be misunderstsanding something. So on my 28 2.8 Vivitar lens and 50 1.8 AIS, when I use them, aperture is not available, signified with --. When I try and use aperture priority it says "lens not attached" which makes sense all things considered. With my old 50 1.8 AF D it did meter. And when you'r esaying both manual and aperture priority metering, you must mean I have no readout of the aperture right?

I know on the D7000 and higher you can manuall input the lens settings, which apparently allows you to meter. My D3300 does not have that.

 

[fmw]

Yeah I have a D3300 so any lens like a pre-ai AIS etc mounts and doesn't have metering.
Which honestly, for portraits, would probably speed things up the same way as autofocus does (autofocus with certain focus points selected, not just "let's hope this focuses on the eyes!") haha

Not so. Any Nikkor AF lens will provide full metering. Any AI lens will provide both manual and aperture priority metering. The pre AI lenses can't index to the meter. All of the later ones can. What you will lose with a non AF-S lens is autofocus.

I think I may be misunderstsanding something. So on my 28 2.8 Vivitar lens and 50 1.8 AIS, when I use them, aperture is not available, signified with --. When I try and use aperture priority it says "lens not attached" which makes sense all things considered. With my old 50 1.8 AF D it did meter. And when you'r esaying both manual and aperture priority metering, you must mean I have no readout of the aperture right?

I know on the D7000 and higher you can manuall input the lens settings, which apparently allows you to meter. My D3300 does not have that.

Yes. There are no electronics in the lens so you must read the aperture from the aperture ring on the lens. The shutter is still controlled electronically by the camera.

 

[jcdeboever]

The green dot is hit or miss on the d3300 from what I have experienced. Plus the viewfinder kind of sucks on it as well.