Reversing ring problem

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I'm trying to attach 50mm lens to my D60 with a reversing ring for macro use, but although everthing has clicked into
place the menu is reading 'lens not attached'! what am I
doing wrong:shrug:
 
:shrug: but i can't press the button to take the shot..Doh am I being
blonde?
 
Are you shooting in Manual mode? Worth a try. Also, if the D60 as an in-built autofocus motor, switch to manual focus, that might help.
 
theres no problem using the lens the correct way round
its just when I attach it with the reversing ring that
it comes up lens not attached I'm wondering if you can't
use the D60 with a reversing ring??
 
No idea on your problem, just to let you know what you're using is a reversing mount - a reversing ring is quite different. A reversing ring attaches lens to lens backwards, in this case you're only using one lens, mounted backwards, right?
 
It may not be possible with the D60 if the reversing mount doesn't do something about the aperture lever on the body.

I've not actually seen or tried reversing mounts before, but a reversing ring connects two lenses together end to end. I've done that with the 28-80mm f/3.5-5.6 AF-D connected to the body, then the ring, then a 50mm f/1.8D thrown on in reverse, and that works well, but the 28-80mm is able to set the aperture manually via the ring (I suspect that being missing with a reversing mount is what's causing your issues).
 
He's talking about the kind of reversing ring that screws into a lens' filter thread and then the ring goes onto the camera body.

On my D300 and previous D2Xs it worked fine straight away.

Maybe the D60 doesn't allow you to take a pic when it thinks no lens is attached. With a D300 or D2Xs even with physically no lens on the camera, you can still take a photo.
 
Kaouthia said:
It may not be possible with the D60 if the reversing mount doesn't do something about the aperture lever on the body.

I've not actually seen or tried reversing mounts before, but a reversing ring connects two lenses together end to end. I've done that with the 28-80mm f/3.5-5.6 AF-D connected to the body, then the ring, then a 50mm f/1.8D thrown on in reverse, and that works well, but the 28-80mm is able to set the aperture manually via the ring (I suspect that being missing with a reversing mount is what's causing your issues).
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Reversing mounts never do anything to the aperture lever since the lever in on the other end of the lens.

I don't know about the D60/Nikons but as a general rule, you lose autofocus and aperture/shutter speed control when you reverse mount. You should still be able to click though. Has the mount clicked into place? Maybe the camera is not detecting that the mount has locked on.
 
Yes, the camera has to be in full M manual mode. You then set the aperture using the aperture ring on the lens.
 
loplyg said:
He's talking about the kind of reversing ring that screws into a lens' filter thread and then the ring goes onto the camera body.
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Yes, the kind that's called a reversing mount. :)

A reversing ring is for connecting 2 lenses together end to end.

nuttyboy78 said:
Reversing mounts never do anything to the aperture lever since the lever in on the other end of the lens.
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That's kind of my point. Some bodies won't work with lenses that don't have that. Just like some bodies won't work with Nikon's own G lenses.

I haven't personal experience with the D60, so it was just a thought. :)
 
Then I guess I was mistaken. I've always seen them as "Reversing mounts", and "reversing rings" being the ones with threads on both sides.
 
I was having the same trouble here, it all comes down to your metering setting. I had my D50 set to Matrix metering and the camera was just not firing. By this point I had tried more or less everything to get it going but with no results I was ready to give up.

Now, I know this is something so so simple... I changed my metering to Spot metering and hey presto, the camera fires.
 
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