What lenses can i use on a nikon f80?

I have a Nikon 3200d with a lens (18-55m) on and a Nikon F80 with a 28-100mm lens on. I swapped the lenses over and they worked fine - is this the case with all of the lenses, that I can use the newer Nikon lenses on my old film Nikon? I want to buy a wider prime lens like a 35mm, and so it would be great if it turns out I can share between them!

The 35 mm lens is not going to be that wide on your F80 and on the D3200, closer to a normal lens.

If you want a wider angle lens for your F80, you may want to look at the Nikkor 24 mm, but again, it will not be wide on your cropped frame D3200.

Here is a link that will show you how the difference focal length lenses see things with a full frame (FX) and cropped frame (DX) lens

http://imaging.nikon.com/...simulator/

To see what a 35 mm and 24 mm lens sees on your D3200, set the focal length of your 18-55 mm lens at those focal lengths and just take a look.

Look on pages 34 and 35 of your F80/N80 user manual for the compatible lenses.

http://www.butkus.org/chinon/nikon/nikon_n80/nikon_n80.htm

You will see that ANY NIkkor AF, AF-I or AF-S lens will work on your F80

Your D3200 can only auto-focus if you use AF-I or AF-S lenses, otherwise you just have to manually focus an AF lenses using the electronic rangefinder in the cameras viewfinder.

It uses the Nikon AF mount - lenses to fit it won't autofocus on your D3200, and a 35mm lens is longer than the 28mm of your existing zoom, although the motorised version will be a useful fast standard lens for the D3200.

I'd imagine that the DSLR lenses would produce a smaller image on the film camera.

Yes and no. The F80 is a mid range full frame film SLR, it will operate any AF, AF-S and AF-I lenses, and you will also get VR with VR-equipped lenses. However because it's full frame, any lenses marked DX will not give you full coverage, and instead you will get a black ring around the edge of the frame.

Therefore your 18-55mm lens will function, but it won't give you very useable images. With regards to a 35mm lens, you're a little snookered. The D3200 is a crippled camera, so it needs AF-S or AF-I lenses, therefore you need the AF-S Nikkor 35mm f1.8G DX, or the AF-S Nikkor 35mm f1.4G. The problems are, the cheaper f1.8 lens is a DX lens and won't really work properly on your F80, and the f1.4 version (which is FX), is really expensive. You also have the AF Nikkor 35mm f2D which is 100% compatible with the F80, but you don't get AF on the D3200. These compatibility issues really cripple the D3xxx/5xxx cameras, wheras the mid range and high end Nikons give you an AF motor, meaning AF lenses will work.

The other problem is that 35mm on a D3200 will look more like 50mm on the F80, so if you want the 35mm look on the D3200, you'll need a 24mm lens. This is really my problem with the APS-C format, there simply aren't enough good value prime lenses for them, and this problem isn't just for Nikon, all the major manufacturers neglect to make decent low budget wide angle primes for APS-C.