Camera Help! Would this work?

Hi Grace,

I don't know where Taylor gets his information but his answer is not exactly correct. The lens adapter will work fine and will allow the use of any Nikon G mount lens and will allow manual, but not fully automatic, exposure control and the lens WILL focus to infinity.

But if you want to save money that way you would probably be better off getting a manual focusing and manual aperture control F mount lens for Nikon 35mm cameras and an F mount adapter because it would be the most flexible solution for Nikon lenses and would utilize the functions built into those lenses. There are thousands of used manual "legacy" lenses from various manufacturers of 35mm cameras that would work better than the Nikon G lenses.

However, before you do that you might want to look at the available Micro Four Thirds lenses from Olympus, Panasonic and Third Party vendors, because some of them are quite affordable and will take advantage of the many modern functions and features of your camera.

For example look at this one which may be selling for only a bit more than the lens and adapter you are considering if you look around or are able to shop on ebay -

http://www.google.com/products/catalog?hl=en&q=mic...

EDIT: Caoedhen has found a good used lens that would be suitable for using as a manual focus lens but I would get a different adapter than the G Mount you already have found. Best would be for an "F" mount to Micro Four Thirds adapter, one with a "focus confirm" capability which would blink a light or give a quiet "beep" when focus is achieved would be ideal but that would add a great deal to the cost..

Here is a link to a good quality manual adapter that is appropriate for manual focusing Nikon lenses -

http://www.amazon.com/Fotodiox-adapter-Adapter-Oly...

Using adapters is generally not the best way to save money on "glass". It is usually best reserved to use existing collections of lenses owned by long time photographers or to attach specialty lenses that are only available from a particular manufacturer.

Hope that helps. Good luck

email me if you need more specific questions answered.

The adapter is junk, and the lens is not much better than junk. I understand working on a budget, but this is just wasting money.

The description of the adapter says that nothing auto will work, and that it has an "on off" switch to set the aperture... which means what? Wide open or stopped down all the way? It doesn't say, nor does it actually mention that you could set the aperture from the camera. Adapters that do allow all this cost more than both the items you mention.

Using that adapter with an F mount manual lens is going to work much better... and probably cost less as well. Something like this: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Nikon-Series-E-manual-focu... which is a better lens than the 75-300 G ever though about being.

Depends what you define as work.

With such an adapter you lose autofocus and open aperture metering. With a G-type you also have a great deal of hassle as it doesn't have an aperture ring so you have to fiddle with the adapter and well, it's just a pain.

The 70-300mm lens you've mentioned is also crap, so you'll do well to avoid it. May I suggest that if you are going down the adaptation route, that you buy an AI-Nikkor lens which was designed to be manual focus in the first place! Couple that with the Novoflex adapter (which is semi smart) you even get open aperture metering!

When it comes to being behind the camera, I'm a camera whore. However, being in front of it? Very shy... most folks always ask me for recent pics and I so very rarely take them. heck. my web cam has only been on on this new laptop because I didn't know the settings. Since then? Once.... Now since I have not shot anyones' pic in a while.....and I've got tons of film...and some digital cameras....

There (obviously) are Nikon F-mount to Olympus 4/3s adapters, but you'll have no autofocus, no in-camera metering and no you won't be able to focus to infinity. So, obviously all of these issues are not worth the possible savings.