Just What I Needed, Another Hobby

[BadKarma]

I've messed around with cameras off and on now for about 10 years. I've had a couple Canon AE-1 P's over the years. But now I'm going to take this a little more seriously. I just bought a Nikon N8008s and a couple of lenses. I love landscape and nature photography.

Here's my first question:

Could nikon have made it any harder to understand what lenses will fit which body?

[DD'sMC]

Good luck BadKarma. I look forward to your posted photos...

[Terry Beeson]

BK,

I recently purchased an N8008 myself with a few lenses. Basically, any lens that has a Nikon ("F") mount will fit a Nikon camera including the N8008. The Autofocus feature of the N8008 makes it nice in that any Autofocus (AF) lens will focus with it, although not as fast as the new dSLRs... The AF-S or Sigma's HSM will not focus on the N8008 or similar because they use an internal motor in the lens to focus. The N8008 has a motor in the body that turns a "screw" in the AF lens to focus. Of course you can also turn it off and manually focus the AF. The internal motor types do have manual focus, but I haven't tried that feature on the N8008.

Is there something particular you're looking for?

That N8008 is a sweet camera. Got it and a 28-70mm lens for a SONG. I also got a new D40 dSLR from Santa this year. BOTH really sweet.

I'd suggest you go to www.nikonians.org and get some great advice from a lot of great photo geeks. There is a section dedicated to the Autofocus film bodies such as the N8008 and other equipment. I've learned a lot about the tech end just in a few weeks of being on there. You'll learn more than you ever want to know about lenses...

My lens list... so far...

ProMaster 28-70mm 3.5-4.5 52mmǾ

Vivitar MC 70-210mm 4.5-5.6 55mmǾ

ProMaster 70-300 4-5.6 LD TeleMacro 62mmǾ

Sigma DC 55-200mm 4-5.6 55mmǾ

And for the D40

Nikon AF-S 55-200mm Ǿ

Nikon AF-S 15-55mm 3.5-5.6 G II ED 52mmǾ

[jdmidwest]

Good luck, I own Pentax and my buddy and photo cohort owns Canon equip. Both are backwards compatible with the 35mm stuff. Lenses are pretty common at the shops and on Ebay.

[BadKarma]

Thanks for the support folks.

Terry, I've wanted a N8008s for quite sometime and just fell into a great deal. I'm not a big fan of the digital scene, kinda makes me feel like I'm trout fishing with the grabbin rig. Anyway thanks for the website, thats gonna take me awhile to wade through all of that information. Btw, how are the Promaster lenses? Good quality?

Thanks jd, I've had a couple Canon rigs and they worked very well, but I've always wanted a Nikon rig, but your right about availability.

DD'sMC, we'll see how long it is before I'm brave enough to post something. But thanks for the vote of confidence.

[Terry Beeson]

Just got the ProMaster, but the reviews are pretty good. For the price, I like them, but the quality is not "great" for a pro. I'll take a few and post them and you can decide...

OK... I popped in the lens and set it on macro and took a couple. This is on "auto" at 300mm macro standing about 3-4 ft from the bud... Freehand - no tripod:

[BadKarma]

Dang Terry, that looks pretty good to this amature eye. I just may have to keep an eye open for one of those.