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Hi I appreciate its probably a stupid question...
My niece is currently studying for a photographic degree and a little Nikon D70 that she happily clicks away at. For Christmas she got a couple of small lenses such as the Nikon AF 50mm f/1.8 and all is well.
There is now a whole section of the course dedicated to film and she has birthday only a couple of weeks away so the family is in the market for a film camera.
I want to stay with nikon as she is already familiar with the layout and the shape (I'm guessing that new digital cameras are based on older film designs) but am having a hard time deciding what to go for.
I saw in a recent thread that www.carmarthencameras.co.uk have a Nikon F65 with a 28-80 lens going for 135 quid, which sounds good enough to me.... except that it might all end up in a drawer as soon as the course module ends. They also do used F601, F65 & F801 bodies for about 50 quid but then I would need to find compatible lenses...
Hence the initial question, can she use her Nikon AF 50mm f/1.8 on film back?
If anybody has any other insights or things to consider then plese pile in!
Cheers,
PN
My niece is currently studying for a photographic degree and a little Nikon D70 that she happily clicks away at. For Christmas she got a couple of small lenses such as the Nikon AF 50mm f/1.8 and all is well.
There is now a whole section of the course dedicated to film and she has birthday only a couple of weeks away so the family is in the market for a film camera.
I want to stay with nikon as she is already familiar with the layout and the shape (I'm guessing that new digital cameras are based on older film designs) but am having a hard time deciding what to go for.
I saw in a recent thread that www.carmarthencameras.co.uk have a Nikon F65 with a 28-80 lens going for 135 quid, which sounds good enough to me.... except that it might all end up in a drawer as soon as the course module ends. They also do used F601, F65 & F801 bodies for about 50 quid but then I would need to find compatible lenses...
Hence the initial question, can she use her Nikon AF 50mm f/1.8 on film back?
If anybody has any other insights or things to consider then plese pile in!
Cheers,
PN