Quantaray 70-300 lens on Nikon D40 body

[sankar bhattacharyya]

Hi,

I recently bought a Nikon N70 along with a Quantaray 70-300 mm lens. I also happen to have a NikonD40 i.e. a

digital SLR. My question is "will I be able to use the Quantaray lens on the D40 body without doing any harm to the

camera or the lens".

 

Thanks

 

Sankar

[eric_arnold]

you can use the quantaray on a d40 but it will not be able to autofocus without a built-in motor. if you'd rather not be manual focusing, you will need an AF-S (nikon), HSM (sigma) or micromotor (tamron) -equipped lens, such as the 55-200 HSM or 70-300 AF-S VR.

[Matt Laur]

It will work, as Eric says, but even the D40's fairly modest sensor will probably show you the mediocrity of that lens. It will work, but without AF, you'll have to be careful to get manual focus... and the D40's viewfinder isn't really set up for precision manual focusing. The green focus LED in the finder will tell you, more or less, when the camera thinks you've got focus. That's not a very fast lens, but you'll still want to stop it down closer to f/8 to help out with the sharpness.

[sankar bhattacharyya]

Thanks to Eric and Matt. I did try attaching the lens taking some shots, however somehow it didn't work. Do you think the amount of light getting in could be a problem ( Since it was indoors and as Matt says it is not a very fast lens).

[sankar bhattacharyya]

Dear Eric and Matt, the problem with my quantaray lens still exists. Whenever I try to get a picutre the camera

viewfinder flashes "e99". I am completely at a loss as to the way around this problem. Any suggestions??