Lenses For Nikon Camera's.

Question

Other than lenses made by other camera companies like pentax and canon will all lenses made fit on different cameras? I only really care about the Nikon d50 and d60. I just want to know if I have to buy a lens that is designed to fit one of those cameras.

Answer 1

As Pooky said, any lens will work with your D50 or D60, as long as it is made for the Nikon F mount. Meaning, a Canon lens will not fit a Nikon. The same as a Nikon lens will not fit a Pentax camera. Older AF Nikkors will work with the D50, however, they will not AF with the D60.  

Answer 2

All camera manufacturers use a proprietary lens mount. That means that a Pentax lens only mounts to a Pentax, a Nikon to  Nikon, Canon to Canon.

Canon lenses made before 1985 used the FD mount which Canon abandoned when they introduced the EOS AF film cameras in 1985,

Nikon lenses made since 1959 are still useable on the newest Nikon DSLR.

Pentax still uses the K-mount first introduced in 1975 with the K1000 35mm film camera.

One exception is the Fujifilm DSLR which is based on a Nikon body and accepts Nikon lenses.

Sony is another DSLR that is a little different - its lens mount dates back to the Minolta Maxxum AF camera, the Maxxum 7000, introduced in 1985.So the Sony A100, A200, A300, A350 and A700 all can use every legacy Minolta Maxxum AF lens made since 1985.

Buy Nikon lenses for your Nikon.

Answer 3

Gotta add my two cents for what it's worth...we can't forget the Kodak DCS Pro SLR/n made for Nikon lens and the DCS  Pro SLR/c made for Canon Lens. Even though no longer made they were same cameras different lens mounts.

Answer 4

They're designed for specific equipment and they are not interchangeable between makes. Even other companies like Pentax and Vivitar manufacture specifically for a particular brand.

Answer 5

If you are talking Nikon lenses it depends on the series as to what will or won;t work. Some work partially. Only AFs lenses will autofocus on the D60

it is not a pre-AI ( non-AI ) lens then yes it should work. Pre-AI lenses will NOT work. Some Nikon F's had pre-AI lenses, Some early F2's may have come with non-AI lenes I'm pretty sure they did ( nonAI lenses were made from 1959 till about 1977, F2's were first manufactured in 1971 so there is some overlap). No F3's would have come with them . Depending on the series lens you may not get all the features. If it is AI-converted, AI or AI-s then it will mount and work to take pictures but only in M mode and it will not autofocus or meter. If it is A, AF-S, AF-D, VR or G you are good to go

I hope you don't mind I cut an pasted this next part from an answer I posted a few days ago rather than type it all over again. I hope it is not too much info. I've been accused of being the type of person that when you ask me what time it is I tell you how to build a watch ~lol~

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Non AI lenses did not index automatically you had to line up a prong when you put the lens on

AI lenses were automatic indexing so you did not have to move the aperature ring when mounting the lens.

AI-d series Nikkor lenses were factory converted from Non AI to AI

In AI-s lenses the "s" means that the actuation of the diaphragm was linearized with respect to the position of the automatic diaphragm pin. This is very important for AF cameras because they have have open-loop exposure control that depends on the aperture being exactly correct or else your exposure will be off. It is not important to manual focus cameras

P lenses are manual focus AI-s lenses that have had the electronic contacts of an AF lens added to them. I do not know of this being on 50 mm I think it was used mostly on telephotos

E series lenses were one of the first "Cheaper" nikon lenses I put the "cheaper" in quotes because they had great optical quality. They were built with well thought out, simple to manufacture optics and cheaper mechanics that were more than good enough for amateur use. These cheaper mechanics are often better than what Nikon makes today in some of their cheaper plastic AF lenses. But at the time they were one of the first lenses Nikon made with plastic instead of metal parts, so they got a bad rap. These are great buys IF they work on your camera

AF were autofocus lenses and AF-n are "new" autofocus lenses that also have a manual focus ring.

AF-D lenses send distance information to the camera to be used with things like automatic flashes

AF-I have internal focusing motors on the lenses AF-S also have internal focusing motors but you can override them with the manual focus ring without moving and switches

G lenses are lenses which have been crippled by removing their aperture rings to save cost. They do not work on older manual only cameras as you cannot set the aperature.

AF-s and AF-I are the only ones that will autofocus with the D40/D60.

A good compatability chart can be found here

http://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/compati...

third party lenses like Tokina, Tammaron, Sigma will work if they have a Nikon mount but all may not autofocus on the D60 only those with motors in the lens will

Canon Pentax etc will not work a Nikon but Fuji uses a nikon mount and nikon lenes

Answer 6

No. If you want to  use Canon, you'd have to use a Canon camera.

You can get third party lenses--like Tamron or Sigma. Make sure it's Nikon mouth.

Keep in mind that if a lens does not have an auto focus motor built into it, you will have to focus manually.

Answer 7

"So if a lens designed for a nikon body mount would then fit on any nikon body"

Yes if will fit any Nikon Digital body, and even older manual focus SLR's, but only AF-S or older AF-I lens will auto focus with the D60.

The D50 any auto focus lens will work