nikon lenses

wooody · Mar 1, 2014

A quick question will a Nikon 70-300 1:4-5.6 G fit on a d3200 ?? just been offer one at the rite price so just checking first thanks :wink:

71M · Mar 1, 2014

Google says ..no?

Derrel · Mar 1, 2014

The one you list WILL FIT, but it is one of very few screw-driven focusing G-series lenses, so it WILL NOT AUTOFOCUS on the D3200. I own one. It is a very low-cost lens, worth maybe $80-$90 US DOllars, tops. When this lens was first made, EVERY SINGLE NIKON AF body had an in-body autofocus motor. The Nikon D40 d-slr broke that pattern.

480sparky · Mar 1, 2014

It will fit, and it will work as designed.

71M · Mar 1, 2014

"AUTO FOCUS works on d7000 d90 d80 d100-d70 d70s-d50 d700 d3 d2x d2xs d800 d200 d300 d300s auto focus will not works ond40 d40x d60 d3000 d3100 d3200 d5000 d5100"

480sparky · Mar 1, 2014

Derrel said:
The one you list WILL FIT, but it is one of very few screw-driven focusing G-series lenses.......

Say what? Mine's not screw-driven!

Gavjenks · Mar 1, 2014

Wow that's an obnoxious smiley. I shall keep it in mind for the future.

Derrel · Mar 1, 2014

480sparky said:
Derrel said:

The one you list WILL FIT, but it is one of very few screw-driven focusing G-series lenses.......

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Say what? Mine's not screw-driven!

Not sure what you mean. The OP inquired about the 70-300mm f/4-5.6 G Nikkor... which is this lens: Nikon AF Zoom Nikkor 70-300mm f/4-5.6G Lens (Black) 1928 B&H

As it says in the B&H ad: Note! AF not supported by D40,D40X, D60, D3000 & D5000 cameras.

The lens he specified has an old-fashioned screw-driven AF system in the lens. The 70-300 the OP asked about, along with the 28-200mm G-series are the two most common G-series, screw-driven AF lenses from Nikon. I own both of them. I'm familiar with what they are.

480sparky · Mar 1, 2014

Derrel said:
480sparky said:

Derrel said:

The one you list WILL FIT, but it is one of very few screw-driven focusing G-series lenses.......

Click to expand...

Say what? Mine's not screw-driven!

Click to expand...

Not sure what you mean. The OP inquired about the 70-300mm f/4-5.6 G Nikkor... which is this lens: Nikon AF Zoom Nikkor 70-300mm f/4-5.6G Lens (Black) 1928 B&H

As it says in the B&H ad: Note! AF not supported by D40,D40X, D60, D3000 & D5000 cameras.

The lens he specified has an old-fashioned screw-driven AF system in the lens. The 70-300 the OP asked about, along with the 28-200mm G-series are the two most common G-series, screw-driven AF lenses from Nikon. I own both of them. I'm familiar with what they are.

(Gets glasses on, squints at screen, and sees it's 4, not 4.5)...............

bribrius · Mar 1, 2014

hmm. so is this a big deal. Should they get a 7000 or something with inbody focus motor ?

Derrel · Mar 1, 2014

bribrius said:
hmm. so is this a big deal. Should they get a 7000 or something with inbody focus motor ?

Definitely not worth doing anything like that for the 70-300 G...it's a low-quality lens...it has terrible chromatic aberration above about 200mm, a tiny, front-mounted manual focusing ring, and noisy, average autofocusing. It is selling new, gray market in the USA for $119, and for $75 or so used. It is, no offense, a "cheap lens", and it is VERY average optically. I bought it back when a "pro Nikon" was a 2.7 megapixel D1 or D1h. As soon as we got to the 6-megapixel era, the lens was already the limiting factor. I cannot imagine how it would be on a 24-megapixel APS-C camera. It DOES make a fine soft-focus lens with the Cokin 082 diffuser added. Seriously, it works great for that.

Here's a 12 year-old shot of it, made in 2002, on the Fuji S2 Pro, the 3-megapixel camera with the in-camera automatic UP-rezzing to make "SIX megapixel" images, as Fuji called them...already on that camera, this lens showed it was not very sharp.

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