I was digging through my uncles old box of stuff, and came across an old film nikkormat, and it has a nice hanimex 28mm f2.8 on it. I was wondering if this lens would work on something like my d5000? I'm not at home to try it out, it will be a week before I get back but thought it would fun to use this lens. I know it would be all manual focus but what the hell, it would still be fun
I believe it will mount, but I'm not certain of that. If you can successfully mount it, it will work. I'm not sure about the optical quality on that one.
We are at a camera shop right now, they mounted it on a used d5000 and it kept saying no lens attached. Oh well, it was worth a try
The camera wouldn't fire with the lens mounted? It shouldn't matter to the camera.
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From this page:
One aspect of lenses that doesn't get mentioned much with the D5000 is an intriguing one: you can mount any Nikkor on it. That's right, any, as in pre-AI lenses can be put on this camera and used without damaging it. Of course you'll be metering and focusing manually, but the presence of Live View can make focusing easier.
We were still in the shopping center, so I went back to that shop and tried again. This time the camera would work and put itself into manual mode. Could only change shutter speed, but that's about what I expected. Yay. Lens seems fairly sharp from the few shots I took. Thanks for the info Kirbic. My parents have a bunch of old lenses like this at their house that I may have to take from them just to play with.
