- #VIVITAR SERIES 1 MANUAL METERING INSTRUCTIONS MANUAL#
- #VIVITAR SERIES 1 MANUAL METERING INSTRUCTIONS VERIFICATION#
- #VIVITAR SERIES 1 MANUAL METERING INSTRUCTIONS SERIES#
#VIVITAR SERIES 1 MANUAL METERING INSTRUCTIONS MANUAL#
There is a way of adding a chip (US$30) to manual lenses to allow metering, an eBay search for NIKON EURO CHIP will find one, and there's a very comprehensive description of the process here: The D5000 will only fire on manual, and there's no metering at all. Unfortunately, as Erik points out, this won't work. I looked into that a couple of years ago when I got the Nikon and decided to get more Nikon gear instead but will take another look now and also check on 4/3 and u4/3 OM and Canon EOS adapters. I don't actually own any Zuiko lenses to compare, but either way it appears that serious modifications might be be required. On my lenses the mount is pretty wide and the buttons come through the mount itself.
#VIVITAR SERIES 1 MANUAL METERING INSTRUCTIONS SERIES#
I haven't used the Series 1 lenses for years and didn't even think about the stop down and release button locations. Yes, it's rapidly beginning to look that way. (I have a Tamron Adaptall 2 Nikon adapter on order to use with a Tamron 500mm mirror lens, and I'm hoping to be able to use it in manual and ap-pref modes on the D5000 - of course I know this is entirely different from the lenses in question.) I was hoping it would meter in manual or aperture-preferred mode. Thanks very much for the quick reply and information! If you don't want to do this, then sell your lenses on eBay - those versions would fetch a decent price as they can be used on a lot of non-Nikon digital cameras. Or for real nostalgia, try an OM1 or OM2 film body. Or get a Canon EOS DSLR or Sony NEX which also have OM adapters and work well with OM lenses. There are no old OM digital cameras, just the E series (there's a new OM-D). Finally the aperture coupling levers are in different locations (not that this matters as the D5000 doesn't support mechanical auto-aperture anyway.) Odds are this conversion would not be worthwhile.Īlternatively I could get an old OM digital camera to use with the lenses as they are, but that would be even more wasteful redundancy Olympus has the stop down and release buttons on the lens near the mount - Nikon has them on the body. Whether the lens makes up that difference in the flange or the lens tube would depend on the lens construction. IIRC, D5000 doesn't meter with non-CPU lenses. Alternatively I could get an old OM digital camera to use with the lenses as they are, but that would be even more wasteful redundancy Of course the Vivitar lenses are faster but lack vibration control.
Or maybe I could locate broken lenses for sale for parts.Īdmittedly this is mostly just nostalgia for my glassy old friends from the 70's and 80s, since I already have the equivalent DX lenses for Nikon, the 85mm Micro Nikkor and the 18-55mm and 55-200 kit lenses.
#VIVITAR SERIES 1 MANUAL METERING INSTRUCTIONS VERIFICATION#
It would be nice if I could get some kind of verification for that before I blow $50 or $60 or more on an old lens just to pirate it's mount. This would assume that, for example, Series 1 90mm macro lenses for all cameras are identical except for their removable mounting flanges. It seems that one could buy some kind of cheap old Series 1 for Nikon lens or tele-converter, etc, remove its mount, and swap it for the OM-mount on the desired OM lens. I'm considering trying to put Nikon mounting flanges on a couple of Vivitar Series 1 lenses with Olympus OM mounts, a 90mm f/2.5 macro and a 28mm f/1.9 lens, for use on a Nikon D5000.
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