The company continues, with the 2020 D6 model, to use variations of the same lens mount specification for its film and digital SLR cameras.

F-mount cameras include current models from Nikon, Fujifilm, Sinar, JVC, Kenko and Horseman.

Incompatibilities do exist, however, and adventurous F-mount users should consult product documentation in order to avoid problems.

[citation needed] Many manual focus lenses can be converted to allow metering with consumer Nikon bodies by adding a Dandelion chip to the lens.

On cameras equipped with Nikon's Aperture Direct Readout (ADR) system, a small window under the pentaprism reads the smaller scale and displays the selected f-stop in the viewfinder.

The PC-E lenses (the "E" designates an electromagnetic diaphragm) offer automatic aperture control with all DSLRs with CMOS image sensor except the Nikon D90.

The PC Micro-Nikkor 85 mm f/2.8D lens offers only preset aperture control, actuated mechanically by pressing a plunger.

In July 1962, Nikon released the first interchangeable perspective-control lens available for a single-lens reflex camera, the 35mm f/3.5 PC-Nikkor.

[91] This was followed in 1968 by a redesigned 35mm f/2.8 PC-Nikkor in which the shifting portion of the lens was further from the camera's body, in order to clear the new "Photomic" meters.

IX-Nikkor zoom lenses were designed and released for the Nikon Pronea line of Advanced Photo System SLRs.

[125] Zeiss ZF series lenses are manual-focus designs Nikon AI-S type aperture indexing.

ZF-I lenses add mechanical locks for focus and aperture, and additional environmental sealing, for industrial applications.