Lens Help Please

Zillah

Alrighty, I'm gonna be buying a D70s soon and I want to get an extender and maybe a macro lens, but first things first I want to make sure my main lens is compatible. I have a Nikon F55 already, and that has this lens. Will it work with the D70s? That page was written before the D70 existed, so I'm hoping that Nikon have backwards compatibility.

EDIT:

I found this page. If I'm reading the chart right, my AF lens should work with the D70? Although my lens is also a "G" type, which I also think is compatible?

CrowdedHouse

Will work no problem.

However your field of view will be equivalent to a 42-150mm lens.

Zillah

Whys that now?

(I've only recently started paying attention to the technicalities of different lenses so forgive me if some stuff goes over my head )

CrowdedHouse

For lenses such as the one you have - originally designed for 35mm film cameras- you get a multiplication factor of 1.5 because the digital sensor area is smaller than a frame of 35mm.

Edit:They'll work grand - more on the tele end,but won't go as wide

Zillah

Wow. So if I put my father's old 200mm vivitar lens it'll be 300mm? And if I then add this beaut for another x1.7 I'll have a total of 510mm?!

Cos then I'd feel like a super agent spying on people from a half mile away...

42mm is wide enough I suppose, considering 55 is normal human vision. Still, I'd miss my 28.

CrowdedHouse

I think that Teleconverter will only work with Nikkor AF-S lenses.

Don't know about the old Vivitar lens,you'll just have to try it yourself.Should physically fit ok but might have light metering issues.

Zillah

The vivtar doesn't even work properly on my F55, let alone a D70. It fits and I can take photos, I just have to do everything completely manually. Hopefully that won't really be a problem because I can see my results straight away with digital.

*goes hunting for another teleconverter*

Zillah

I have more lens questions!

How much does brand matter for compatibility? Do Nikon AF cameras only work properly with Nikkor AF lenses? Or is the industry fairly standardised meaning most well known brands will work together fine?

Roen

East is east and west is west and never the twain shall meet. Canon or Nikon (or any other manufacturer) would rather shoot themselves than see their lenses on a rival marques body.
I have heard of third party conversion kits that will allow you to mount Canon on Nikon but as to why you'd want to I have no idea.
When you buy into Nikon or Canon or Minolta or whoever you're doing exactly that. You can of course get third party lenses from Sigma, Tokina (Nikon own em anyway!) or Tamron but again you have to specify which mount you want, i.e. Nikon or whatever.
So basically no, if you fancy the look of my Canon 100mm macro you wont be able to try it out on your camera.