Using Older Lenses on Nikon D90

[tklboise]

Wondering if anyone has experience using older lenses that are not auto focus with a DSLR? I have some great Nikon lenses for an F3 but now I am shooting with a D90 and would love to use some of these lenses. If I turn everything to Manual is that all that's needed? I don't want to mess up the coupling on my D90 experimenting. Any input appreciated.

 

[orb9220]

1) Make sure it is not a pre-Ai lens as this could damage the camera.
2) All Ai or Ais lenses are good to go.
3) Put camera in M manual mode. Change aperture on lens shutter on camara.

You're Good to go.
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[djacobox372]

As long as their ai/ais they'll work fine. The F3 wasn't made to work with non-ai lenses, so that's not likely an issue.

Here's how to tell ai from non ai: http://rick_oleson.tripod.com/index-153.html

You won't have metering on the d90, only the d300, d700, d3, d7000 (and older pro/pro-sumer bodies) meter with non-cpu lenses.