FTn-Stop down with AF?

[dave lackey]

I give up...the manual is no help. I cannot find anyone with the same setup and I am sitting with a perfectly nice Nikkormat FTn with only two AF lenses to my name. 😡

How in the heck do you use this thing?🙂:angel:

 

[Livesteamer]

If I remember rightly, leave the meter coupling pin all the way over at about the two o clock position and meter while holding the aperature closed. Or just use a handheld meter. I love old cameras but I love modern meters. Joe

 

[Leigh Youdale]

I give up...the manual is no help. I cannot find anyone with the same setup and I am sitting with a perfectly nice Nikkormat FTn with only two AF lenses to my name. 😡

How in the heck do you use this thing?🙂:angel:

And if I remember rightly, the FTn came out before AF lenses and wasn't designed to use them - at least that's the case with mine. All my Nikkor lenses are manual focus, but they do connect with the meter through the pin.

 

[dave lackey]

Yes, it is an early (1980 or earlier) AF Nikkor 50mm 1.8 lens. Super sharp and have used it on the F3T a few years ago with great results. But, cannot figure what to do here?

I take it that once mounted, I slide the actuator over the top to the point where it clicks (or all the way over to where it stops?) and just use it at the largest aperture of 1.8?😕

I just took the FTn and pointed it at my blank (white) computer monitor screen and obtained a reading of 500, that is at maximum aperture, 1.8, I presume. Then, I took the lens off and put it on another Nikon SLR and obtained the same reading.

So, am I good to go with that information checking out?

If so, that means I will have to use 1.8 even outdoors? Might be tough with a maximum speed of 1000!

 

[Livesteamer]

If you have the manual, check the instructions for stop down metering. Once you move the pin all the way over, turn on the meter, hold the lens stopped down and adjust till the meter is happy. Good Luck, Joe.

 

[James24]

You should be able to fit a prong, either this one or something like it, to your 50/1.8.

http://cgi.ebay.com/New-Nikon-28mm-f-2-Ai-AiS-meter-collar-coupling-/280616373777

Or, for not a lot more, you could pick up some cheap manual focus pre AI glass.

 

[ronnies]

I've used the same AF 50mm f/1.8 (and one or two others) on my Nikkormat FTn. Just do what the above say about using stop down metering. Push the pin on the body as far clockwise (looking at the front of the body) as it will go and leave it there.

Ronnie

 

[johannielscom]

Good to know all this, my battered, black FTn will be in the mail tomorrow and I hope to receive it over the weekend.
Getting into Nikon once again, to eventually pick up a DSLR body 😱 since people keep asking me to shoot for them and need their shots quick. Guess I will be buying a Fuji S3 Pro in due time, I had one before and really liked it.