Nikon F-mount

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.

The Nikon D7000 reveals a modern F-mount design, including aperture lever (left), CPU contacts (top), and mechanical AF linkage (lower left).
The flange of a current F-mount lens, including aperture lever (upper left) and CPU contacts (bottom).
Nikon F-mount dimensions
Nikon F professional SLR camera with eyelevel prism and early NIKKOR-S Auto 1,4 f=5,8cm lens (1959)
Nikon F2SB professional SLR camera with GN Auto Nikkor 1:2,8 f=45mm AI lens
Comparison of non-AI (left) and AI (right) aperture signaling systems: note differences in meter coupling prong style and presence of AI meter coupling ridge.
A typical AI-S lens: A Nikkor 50mm 1:1.4 showing "Nikon" engravings, rubber focus ring, and new-style Meter Coupling Prong distinguished by its cutaway sections. The lens is mounted on a Nikon FE2 camera.
Nameplate of a 1st generation AF-S lens with original "Silent Wave Motor" design
Nikon 28mm f/2.8 manual-focus lens
Nikon 50mm f/1.4 manual-focus lens
Nikon 85mm f/2 manual-focus lens
Nikon 135mm f/2.8 manual-focus lens
500mm f/8 reflex lens
Nikon 200mm f/4 manual-focus lens
200 mm f / 5.6 Medical Nikkor, mounted on a Nikon F with high-speed motor drive.
Nikon F with 105 mm f / 4 Micro Nikkor.
Nikon 35-105mm micro push-pull zoom lens, manual-focus
Nikon 80-200mm f/4 push-pull zoom lens
The PC-E Nikkor 24mm f/3.5D ED Lens of 2008 adds the tilt function to Nikkor's traditional shift function
The 35mm f / 3.5 PC-Nikkor, introduced in 1961. Note the small clearance between the shifting section of the lens and the camera body. The lens cannot be mounted on later camera bodies with protruding prisms.
Nikkor 50 mm f / 1.4G AF-S lens
Nikon Nikkor 85 mm f / 1.8G AF-S lens
Nikon A F-S 17-55mm f2.8G IF-ED DX
Nikon AF-S 24-70mm f-2.8G ED
35-70mm f/3.3-4.5
Nikkor AF-S VR 70-300mm f / 4.5-5.6G IF-ED
80-200mm f / 2.8 ED AF Zoom-Nikkor
Nikkor 24-120 mm f / 3.5-5.6G AF-S VR FX lens: note red "VR" designation
Nikkor 70-200 mm f / 2.8G AF-S VR II FX lens
18-70 mm f / 3.5-4.5G ED-IF AF-S DX Zoom
18-105mm f / f3.5-5.6G ED-IF VR
18-200 f/3.5-5,6 VR