“use of 35mm slr lens My husband has two non-digital 35mm SLR's and multiple lenses and filters etc.. Can I buy him a digital camera that will make use of those ?”
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The Nikon film lenses will very likely fit on the digital camera, however, you will probably lose functions such as auto-focus. Your film camera probably didn't have auto-focus, true? Also, you may have to set the lens apperature and shutter speed manually, thus the camera has to run in manual mode.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Nikon offers two types of autofocus digital camera bodies: those with a built-in focus drive motor and those which require a lens to have a motor. Cameras such as the D3100 do not have a focus motor in it so they require the lens to have the focusing motor – an “AF-S” lens. While these bodies can use a lens with no focus motor (an “AF” lens) you would have to manually turn the focus ring to bring the subject in to sharp focus.
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