old Nikon lenses for a D60 + Filters

[Harvey_nikon]

Hi all,

I've asked on another forum and I've been told that I can fit older Nikon lenses to my D60 and that I won't even need an adapter.

However, I will have to manually focus and maybe meter as well with some of them and that is cool with me as it means I will have to learn to do it all the time

However, I have no idea what type I should be looking at.

Want to start wildlife and macro photography so any suggestions on what kind of lenses I can look at getting?

Also, after some browsing I found the following filters for sale.

Is this a good deal for a starter set?

 

[StewartR]

Did your camera come with a manual? If not, you can download it here. Pages 146 to 148 tell you pretty much everything you could want to know about lens compatibility.

 

[Astraeus]

Regarding filters, I'd be more cautious than buying unbranded off eBay. The oft-used question in relation to filters on this website is "why put cheap plastic over expensive glass?". As well, respectable filters aren't all that expensive to come by. For £30, you can have this set of Hitech graduated filters which are useful if you ever overexpose skies whilst trying to keep the foreground colour. Add on to that a circular polarizing filter and you have the filters that most on here would (and do) recommend.

Also bear in mind that coloured filters no longer really have a place in the world of digital photography. If you have Photoshop (or similar), you can mimick the effects of coloured and sepia filters by post-processing your images. I'd also suggest the close-up filters aren't a requirement for someone starting out in photography and the UV filter is almost only worthwhile as a means of protecting the front of your lens. If you're going to get one, don't get a cheap one which will degrade your image quality.

Hope that helped!

 

[Harvey_nikon]

Did your camera come with a manual? If not, you can download it here. Pages 146 to 148 tell you pretty much everything you could want to know about lens compatibility.

It did but it says that you can't fit Non-AI lenses despite lots of people telling me you can fit them because they have done it.

It's all rather confusing

And thanks for the filter info Astraeus