A quick question upgrade to full frame

Madhatter58

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8 Nov 2012 - 10:48 AM

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Hi just a quickie here, if I was to upgrade to a full frame camera say a Nikon D600 from a D7000 would the lenses from the D7000 (FX) be OK to use. Please excuse my ignorance!!

GarethRobinson

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8 Nov 2012 - 11:05 AM

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Just to add to the above, personally I would invest in good glass before switching from the D7000 to FX, a lens holds it's value and only gets more expensive, a body looses money.

cf73

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8 Nov 2012 - 11:20 AM

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I have a D90 and a number of DX lenses plus an FX 80-200 f/2.8. I want to upgrade to a D600 for the full frame but also want to get the 24-70 f/2.8.

I have decided to go for the lens first so I have two top quality FX lenses and then will upgrade the body later.

thewilliam

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8 Nov 2012 - 12:17 PM

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When you put a DX lens on an FX body, it auto-crops and you're using only half of the sensor area.

You've paid a lot of money for the pixels that you're not using!

User_Removed

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8 Nov 2012 - 6:57 PM

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When I upgraded from a DX model (D300) to an FX model (D3s) I had to spend about £2000 to replace some DX lenses with their FX equivalents.

So it is a serious consideration for anyone with a fair investment in DX glass.

Fortunately, now that I have downgraded from the D3s to a D800, all my lenses are still OK.

What I should add, of course, is that by buying all my FX lenses secondhand on eBay and selling my old DX glass in the same channel, the nett cost was far less than it might have been.


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KNS

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14 Nov 2012 - 1:21 AM

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Depends what the lenses are....