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Nikon D300
Nikon D300
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Tim Badger (timmybad) 0 pts
January 21, 2008 7:27 PM
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will lenses from a D70s work with the D300

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by James DeRuvo (byjamesderuvo) 38780 pts
January 25, 2008 2:54 PM
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The nice thing about Nikon's are that you can use lenses from 40 or 50 years ago. It uses the name lens mount, but obviously with 35mm lenses or non autofocus lenses, you lose all the automatic features and have to shoot on full manual. But sure, you can use a D70 lens on a D300.
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Tim Badger (timmybad) 0 pts
January 25, 2008 7:41 PM
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Thanks, I'm looking at upgrading my wifes camera for her for her birthday. Shes taking college photography courses and has been talking about moving up so I'm trying to find the next best thing for her. Thanks again Tim
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matt donohoe 2 pts
May 7, 2008 1:10 PM
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If the D300 has a full frame processor, and I believe it does, then you cannot use DX lenses on it without getting vinyeting at wide angle settings or shorter than expected optic telephoto lengths. DX lenses are designed for a smaller plane about the size of what used to be called the APS film. A full frame processor has about the same ratio to the processors in a DX camera as 35mm film has to aps film.
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Larry Klees (lklees) 0 pts
July 29, 2008 2:47 PM
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I would like to add that in Manual mode the D300 still has light metering functions displayed in the view finder and on the top of the camera. It's sort of like using the old needle matching meters.

Matt Donohoe's answer prompts me to add this. I have a D300 and the image sensor chip is 23.6 x 15.8 mm and is intended to work with DX lenses. In addition to several DX lenses I have one full frame macro lens and it works very well with that one also (the portions of the 23 x 24 mm image that land outside the 23.6 x 15.8 mm sensor are simply discarded / cropped).

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