Recommend a camera - don't worry, I'll be specific!

[Girl Sweat]

i think i've decided finally on a used d5000 kit (LN-) on KEH for $599

it doesn't have the in-body focus motor but it seems like, for me, that's the only difference from the d90 and it's a hell of a lot cheaper

 

[inTempus]

The D5000 is a fine camera. Just keep in mind your lens choices will be more limited and lenses that do autofocus with that body will generally be more expensive.

Aside from that, you should get plenty of great pictures from that camera.

 

[Derrel]

The D5000 is a fine camera. Just keep in mind your lens choices will be more limited and lenses that do autofocus with that body will generally be more expensive.

Aside from that, you should get plenty of great pictures from that camera.

"Most of" the lenses that autofocus on the Baby Nikons are low-priced.

Lens choices are actually **wider** than on the higher-end Nikons. Only 55 million Nikon-made, NIKKOR-branded F-mount lenses will mount on the Baby Nikons...but then, that's an actual fact, not a mis-representation.

KmH has repeatedly posted on this issue.

The D5000 will mount and shoot photos with any F-mount lens made since 1959. Makes it a great body to use with off-list, funky manual focusing lenses. The Baby Nikons are the off-list lens user's best ally.

 

[orb9220]

Yep on my D40 when I had it. Loved I could slap on a "1966" pre-Ai 55mm f3.5 micro. Doesn't meter and manual focus but ohh what fun for $40.
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[Destin]

Wait, why can't you use the older lenses on higher end bodies? I've never heard this before, which is surprising.... enlighten me.

 

[cfusionpm]

The D5000 will mount and shoot photos with any F-mount lens made since 1959. Makes it a great body to use with off-list, funky manual focusing lenses. The Baby Nikons are the off-list lens user's best ally.

Well if you aren't going to worry about little things like focusing or metering, what's to stop someone from getting an adapter and mounting all those lenses to any EOS Canon?

From wiki:

[The Canon EF lens mount's] large diameter and relatively short flange focal distance of 44.0 mm allow the EF lens mount to work with adapters.It is possible to mount lenses using the Nikon F mount, Olympus OM, Leica R and universal M42 lens mounts (among others) by the use of a mechanical adapter.

:thumbup:

If I were the original poster, I would find it frustrating to have to manually focus my lenses for casual shooting, which was the point inTempus was making. Lenses that do not have built in focusing motors (anything that is not AF-S) will not autofocus on any "baby Nikon": D40, D60, D3000, D3100, D5000, etc.

 

[MrLogic]

Well if you aren't going to worry about little things like focusing or metering, what's to stop someone from getting an adapter and mounting all those lenses to any EOS Canon?

I agree. Up until recently those adapters weren't widely available, though. A friend of mine had to wait like 4 months for his Nikon G to Canon EOS adapter to arrive... from Hong Kong. :thumbdown:

But that was last year, before the recent Novoflex release.

Lenses that do not have built in focusing motors (anything that is not AF-S) will not autofocus on any "baby Nikon": D40, D60, D3000, D3100, D5000, etc.

AF-I lenses will also autofocus.

Current lenses that will AF with the D5000:

List of Nikon compatible lenses with integrated autofocus-motor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Still plenty of Nikon, Sigma and Tamron lenses to choose from, IMO. 3 popular, but outdated budget lenses - the Nikon 50mm f/1.8, 85mm f/1.8 and 80-200 f/2.8 AF-D - are missing, but not much else.

 

[Derrel]

The D5000 will mount and shoot photos with any F-mount lens made since 1959. Makes it a great body to use with off-list, funky manual focusing lenses. The Baby Nikons are the off-list lens user's best ally.

Well if you aren't going to worry about little things like focusing or metering, what's to stop someone from getting an adapter and mounting all those lenses to any EOS Canon?

From wiki:

[The Canon EF lens mount's] large diameter and relatively short flange focal distance of 44.0 mm allow the EF lens mount to work with adapters.It is possible to mount lenses using the Nikon F mount, Olympus OM, Leica R and universal M42 lens mounts (among others) by the use of a mechanical adapter.

:thumbup:

If I were the original poster, I would find it frustrating to have to manually focus my lenses for casual shooting, which was the point inTempus was making. Lenses that do not have built in focusing motors (anything that is not AF-S) will not autofocus on any "baby Nikon": D40, D60, D3000, D3100, D5000, etc.

This post makes a lot of sense. Using a lens adapter is a great way to get some good glass onto a Canon EOS body. In fact, I own 12 Nikon F to Canon EF lens adapters, three Pentax M42 to Canon adapters, and one Olympus OM to Canon EF adapters.

The new Nikon G-series lens adapters, plural now, make it possible to fit a top-quality ultra-wide angle zoom lens to Canon cameras! yeah, focusing manually...how horrible...I had to do that for almost 30 years before I got an autofocusing Nikon in the early 2000's. Manual focusing was so, so, 1950's, 1860's, 1880's, 1920's, 1930's,1960',1990's...God, how did millions of people ever manage to make those billions of photos without autofocusing? The horror of turning a ring to take a picture! God, that's almost as primitive as slicing bread from a load, or wiping your ass on corn cobs...

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