At 16:12 -0400 5/1/06, Pablo Coronel wrote:
Does the d200 take the non-chip AI/AIS lenses?
I have a bunch of those and hate not to be able to use them
Pablo,
this is from Ken Rockwell's review of the D200
that I posted....
COMPATIBLE LENSES
Every autofocus and even manual focus Nikon lens made since 1977 works great! Except for wide angles you don't need to buy any new lenses. See also my page on Using the D200 with manual focus lenses.
Every Nikon Autofocus lens ever made: AF, AF-n, AF-D, AF-G, AF-S, VR, DX etc. works perfectly. I don't worry about D vs. non-D. I explain this alphabet soup here. Even my 20-year old AF lenses give perfect metering on my D70.
So long as your manual focus lens is AI or AI-S (which is all lenses since 1977) you'll get metering. If you enter some data about your manual focus lens you get matrix metering even with klunky old manual lenses! The D70s and D50 can't use the manual lenses very well at all; they work fine on the D200 as they do on the D2X. Manual lenses lose the Program and Shutter-priority exposure modes, so I stopped using my manual lenses in 1999.
looks to me like they'll work....
Jim
Baja Oregon
