Can you use a Nikon D5100 lens on a Nikon film f50?
I currently am thinking of buying a new nikon film camera, the f50. I'm wondering can I use the lens from my d5100 on it? Would it be compatible?
I'm not entirely sure.
I know that a Nikon FX digital body will adapt (make the sensor smaller) when a DX lens such as yours is fitted.
I don't think there will be damage to your camera (ask Nikon), but you may find the results disappointing.
Yes, they both use the Nikon F mount. However, if you have the kit lens, it is a DX lens and the F50 is a full frame (35mm) camera, so it would have extreme vignetting (dark around the edges of the photo).
It depends. If the lenses you use on your D5100 are FX lenses, they will work just fine. Any DX lenses you have will produce vignetting which can be disconcerting, but not all bad. When you print the images, you will just have to crop out the vignette… Or not.
Some of the old photographers used to use an 8x10 view camera with a 4x5 view camera lens attached. They produced interesting circular images on the larger sheet of film
Just experiment with any DX lens you have and see for yourself
It will fit and it will shoot but the resulting picture would be small and will have large dark fuzzy borders. That is if your lens is DX or made for digital bodies like the kit lens. If you have an FX lens there would be no problem.
Digital lenses are made to project a smaller image for crop sensors that are smaller than a frame of 35mm film. Full frame dSLR's use lenses that can also be used for film bodies.