Larry

As to your question – yes, your T mount lens will work with the your autofocus nikon. You will have to purchase a T mount – F Nikon adapter, you can easily find one on Ebay. Look for Nikon AF- T mount as the search term.

Since the lens is manual, the AF function will not work, but the metering should still work properly – so you can see the shutter speed change in the display as you manually open and close the shutter preset ring.

One thing you’ll have to look out for – when you mount a lens (any lens) on your camera, the AF body will look for the AF connections to the lens, and tries to communicate with it. This is called the “lens mount check”. When a manual lens (without any electronics) is mounted using an adapter, the AF body will sense there is a lens mounted camera but since it cannot communicate, it will block the shutter from being released.

You will have to turn off the “Lens mount check” on your Nikon. I am not familiar with Nikon cameras, since I am primarily a Minolta/Olympus user, but it should be in your manual somewhere.

On my Minolta 800si, I can turn off the lens mount check as follows – I turn off the Camera, mount the lens with adapter,and then I hold down the SUBJECT PROGRAM and AEL buttons while turning on the Camera. I suspect that Nikon will have a similar vague instruction.

Good luck.. I hope this helps. Please let me know how it turns out. I’ve been pleased with this lens. Older lenses are “single coated” unlike todays multi-coated marvels, but the lack of coatings gives a certain character to pictures thats missing with the newer lenses. Maybe I am wrong.

AJ

Bill