Will I have a problem with 50mm D lens mounted on Nikon D3400?
I'm a beginner with photography and started only earlier this year. Like most, I started with the kit lens that came with the camera body.
Recently I've been interested in buying a prime lens. The most affordable one I've been seeing in malls is the 50mm Nikkor prime lens with f/1.8. My problem is that it's a D lens and I've read that D lens won't work with the D3400 because the body has no auto focusing motor or something like that.
Is this the only problem that I will encounter? I read that I could still shoot in manual mode, which is fine because that's the only mode I shoot with. I would just like to clarify if this is the only thing I should be worried about. I'm still unfamiliar with the 50mm lens body as of now but I'll get through that once I play with it. Any input is appreciated.
It will work fine on your camera except for auto focus. Be sure to set the aperture to f/22 on the lens and set the aperture lock on the lens. This way, you control the aperture from the camera body.
You may want to spend the extra $85 to get an AF-S lens. Manually focusing is tedious on DSLRs since the focus screen doesn't have the split/micro prisms found on film cameras. A lens is a long term investment which will last many camera bodies, thus not worth skimping on.
Basically that's it, no autofocus and you shoot in manual mode. I guess you should also be able to shoot in aperture priority but I'm not sure. If you want to shoot in automatic mode, focus and shooting modes, get the 50mm AF-S version.
Why Nikon, and only Nikon, strips down their cameras and then charge more for the NIKON name is just a joke.
No other brand does this to their customers which is why I never recommend the Nikon D3xxx series of cameras to anyone. See if you can take you D3400 back and get a D5xxx series *(if you just have to have a camera with N-I-K-O-N written on it), or get any of the T series from Canon or, even better yet, a Pentax K series which is vastly superior to any Nikon D3xxx camera. That way you will never have to worry about which lens is compatible with your camera because Nikon decided to remove the focusing motor and charge you more for it.
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