Legacy2Digital chipping Nikkor Lenses

[daveleo]

I am looking to "chip" my manual focus Nikkor 24mm/f2.8 to use on my D5100.
Decided not to do it myself.
These guys can do it:
http://http://legacy2digital.com/nikon/

Does anyone have recent experience dealing with these folks?

 

[sevo]

Don't know about them. But it does not look as if they use anything other than the regular "Dandelion" chips. So beware, these make the lens incompatible with the F4 (as well as the first generation or two of Nikon consumer AF SLRs) - the reason why I have stopped chipping my lenses after the first (otherwise successful) attempt.

 

[daveleo]

Don't know about them. But it does not look as if they use anything other than the regular "Dandelion" chips. So beware, these make the lens incompatible with the F4 (as well as the first generation or two of Nikon consumer AF SLRs) - the reason why I have stopped chipping my lenses after the first (otherwise successful) attempt.

What do you mean "incompatible" ?

Their website, it seems (?), shows how the 'chipped" lens will function on consumer grade Nikons. Could you possibly be specific about this? I am interested but worried about doing this.

 

[sevo]

What do you mean "incompatible" ?

Matrix metering and TTL flash will fail - on my (maybe three year old) chip, silently, with exposures that are way off. Back then, other users already reported their meter being non-responsive, so maybe that was fixed (or got worse) in some version at around that time. Spot and centre weighted metering still work. If the chips have "improved" to the meter switching off or going into alert mode that would be enough of a workaround for me, but the state on my chip (random over- or underexposure if the meter was accidentally left in matrix mode) was unacceptable - and nobody was able to tell me the current state of affairs, nor whether and how the hardware/firmware revision of the chips could be identified.

Their website, it seems (?), shows how the 'chipped" lens will function on consumer grade Nikons. Could you possibly be specific about this? I am interested but worried about doing this.

Dandelion currently state (on http://filmprocess.ru/nikon_spec_en.htm) that: "Dandelion is compatible with all digital and film* Nikon AF cameras.

Dandelion Compatibility
There are only three film cameras that Dandelion is not compatible with: F4, F60, F601, F801 and F90x. It works with all other models perfectly."


Whatever that double self-contradiction (all but five cameras is neither all nor all but three) may mean...

 

[daveleo]

Thanks for the replies. I have decided to leave my lens as it is. I am shooting one or two test shots to lock in the exposures (using the histograms) and then taking my "real" pictures.
Like the old days of using a light meter first 😉 or taking a few Polaroids first.