D40 Lenses

[chris_whatever]

Anyone know what older lenses can be used with the D40 ? The manual is quite

confusing.

[Peter_in_PA]

Almost any Nikkor F-mount lens can be used with the D4.

 

AFS lenses will meter and autofocus. You can use all camera functions.

AF lenses (NON-AFS) will meter but not auto-focus. You have to focus, but you can use all

exposure modes.

AI and AI-s lenses (and even non-AI lenses apparently) will not meter or auto-focus, but

will mount and function in manual exposure mode only. You have to guess exposure or

use an exposure meter.

 

It's that simple.

[Peter_in_PA]

I'm reposting with the line breaks that the Internet removed to make this easier to read.

Moderator: feel free to remove the extra post

 

Almost any Nikkor F-mount lens can be used with the D4.

 

AFS lenses will meter and autofocus. You can use all camera functions.

 

AF lenses (NON-AFS) will meter but not auto-focus. You have to focus, but you can use all

exposure modes.

 

AI and AI-s lenses (and even non-AI lenses apparently) will not meter or auto-focus, but

will mount and function in manual exposure mode only. You have to guess exposure or

use an exposure meter.

 

It's that simple.

[mark_sirota1]

Any of them, except the IX and pre-AI lenses (which means, roughly, you can use anything made since 1977).

 

With an AF-S lens, you'll get full metering and autofocus.

 

With a non AF-S type G or type D lens, you'll get full metering but no autofocus.

 

With an AF (not D or G) lens or an AI=P, you'll get metering (but not 3D color matrix metering), and no autofocus.

 

With other (non-CPU) AI or AI-S lenses, you'll get no metering and no autofocus.

 

IX lenses and non-AI lenses cannot be used.

[mark_sirota1]

I guess I could be wrong about the pre-AI lenses. I assumed they couldn't be mounted, but have not confirmed.

[photo5]

I mounted a pre-AI 28mm f3.5 lens on a D40 and shot a few.

[alan_olander1664878205]

Pre-AI can be mounted and used without problems. There are no meter tabs or minimum aperture sensor tabs on the D40(x) that interfere.

[manh_le]

Check out Thom's web site on D40 lenses here:

 

http://bythom.com/lensacronyms.htm

 

Hope this helps.

[eric_mudama1]

Pre-AI works fine, I mount a 135 f/2.8 on my D40x all the time, the conflicting part would be the minimum aperture ring, which a D40x doesn't have.