boojum
Ignoble Miscreant
Rationalization is a useful tool for the clever. Perhaps it is divination. To quote Aretha Franklin, "Don't fight the feeling." ;o)
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Dad Photographer
chuckroast
Well-known
I do exactly this. My AIS lenses work on all my film bodies. They are also programmed into my D750 so that the metadata is correct when I use one of them there. The majority of the time - at least recently - the lenses used on my D750 are: 20mm f/2.8 AIS, 35mm f/1.4 AIS, 28-70mm f/3.5-4.5 AF-D.
The 28-70mm AF-D deserves particular mention for digital. These lenses are dirt cheap because they are not super fast and do not autofocus as quickly as the new generation of VR AF lenses. Because people want the latest whiz bang stuff, these tiny zooms can be had for $50-75 US in great condition. They also work on any AI coupled film body like the F2 with a DP-12 finder, or the F3-F6.
That zoom is tack sharp. A camera that has excellent noise performance like the D750 can overcome the modest speed of the lens by cranking up the ASA. I went to Italy last year and shot all my monochrome film with a Leica IIIf and two lenses. ALL my digital was shot on the D750 and the 28-70mm zoom. I got wonderful results in a relatively simple and small package. Examples - note that these were downsampled from 24 Megapixel originals:
(Now my fancy 24-300mm VR sits almost unused.)
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Godfrey
somewhat colored
The AI Nikkor 35mm f/2 was my standard 35mm SLR lens from 1980 until 2003; used it on Nikon F, F2, FE2, F3, FM, and FM2 bodies for those 23 years, with never a problem or any feeling I needed a better lens.
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