How to Use Konica 52mm f1.8 on my Nikon D5100?
I found this lens cheap and useful and now i wanted to now How Can I Use this lens?
Or Lenses Like this with my D5100!
By the way my D5100 doesn't have Auto Focus Motor inside so i don't really care about focusing Automatically!
If you now how to connect these lenses on Nikon DSLR's Please Help me out!
Thanks
Added (1). Thank you
Actually these 100 bucks goes much more in my country!
i'm planning on old lens!
You can buy a new Nikon 50mm f/1.8 (D version, which will also not focus automatically on your camera) for not much more than $100.
Even if you spent $20 for the lens, an adapter might cost you $50, so you will have a mediocre solution that cost $75. Contrast that to spending $100 on a made-for-your-camera lens (although without autofocus).
And there are downsides to using adapters - even if you can find one for Konica-to-Nikon. These adapters typically result in less than infinity focus to some degree as they extend the distance to the focal plane. Or if there are optics in the adapter to prevent this, their generic nature means they will certainly impact the optical quality of the lens - provided the lens is any good to begin with.
Even the fully autofocusing capable AF-S 50mm f/1.8 (or optionally the 35mm f/1.8) is around $200 new. If there were ever an optically perfect lens, the 35mm and 50mm primes would be it.
It just doesn't make sense to me to mess with a Mickey-Mouse adapter which will certainly result in marginal photos - or at minimum; marginal functionality. These adapters take time to fiddle with (manual exposure, manual focus, less than infinity focus), when you can just buy one of the proper lenses for your camera.
Buying a fully functional lens allows you to learn your skills on taking the photo rather than monkeying around with an adapter - especially given that in "camera dollars", the 35 and 50mm f/1.8 prime lenses are not that expensive.
Although you will someday want to get to the point of manual exposure and focus in select situations, having to learn these techniques in the beginning, along with having to learn everything else just prolongs the learning process.