James Ballam <jballam@polarnet.com> writes: > This is my first posting to this list. I would like to start by > acknowledging that I have learned a lot from the discussions and > particularly from the Gallery comments. I have taken over my wife's > photographic equipment. She moved on to other interests long ago. The > equipment is a FM-2 with a 55-f/2.8, a 80-200 f/4 to which I have > added a 105 f/2.8 and a 35 f/2.8. I now realize that I did not have a > clue of what I was buying at the local repair shop. I realized that I > did not understand lenses when I started to look at buying a more > modern camera with some automatic features. Where can I look to find, > 1) what the lenses I have are and 2) what modern cameras they might be > compatible with? It seems the more I research the more confused I get. Generally speaking, these lenses will be compatible with all nikon mount cameras. They won't auto-focus or matrix-meter, though, and on some of the weirder bodies (like the D100) you may lose *all* metering -- not a big deal when you can check the results right after shooting (the D100 is a digital SLR body). Even cooler, new lenses (including AF) will work fine on your FM-2 body, too. (I've got an F, two FMs, an FM-2, and an N-90 currently, and a wide range of AI through AF lenses from Nikon and other manufacturerers, and everything I have works with everything else). Is that 55 f2.8 a Micro Nikor, or something else? -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b@dd-b.net / http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/ John Dyer-Bennet 1915-2002 Memorial Site http://john.dyer-bennet.net Dragaera mailing lists, see http://dragaera.info
