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  1. Paul
    14.11.2019

    Good evening! Are there any adapters M-39 WITH LENS under Nikon in nature? I searched everything, I found only the usual one like this http://ali.pub/42ro2c
    If someone has information, please share the link!

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    • Alexis
      15.11.2019

      You can put the m39-m42 adapter on the m42-nik adapter with a lens.

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      • Paul
        15.11.2019

        Those. what will be the sequence? 1 Carcass-2 adapter M42 with lens - 3 adapter M39-M42- 4 lens itself. Do I understand correctly?

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      • Alexis
        15.11.2019

        Yes, absolutely right.

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      • Paul
        15.11.2019

        Thank you!

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      • Paul
        26.11.2019

        I apologize, but according to the design I have described, the focus on infinity will also be absent, or will the lens on the M-42 give something?

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  2. Maria
    15.11.2019

    Duplicate here. do not think. that I am a bot)
    The question is quite simple.
    Tair lens, but without ponytail and with M39 thread
    Through M42 + M42 / M39 focuses at infinity, quite a bearable picture (expected). Focuses at infinity on both crop and full frame. BUT on a full frame vignette + deterioration of the picture at times. Although the lens is mirrored. That is, it behaves like a normal DX lens on a full frame. What this is connected with, maybe with the specific scheme of Tair himself.
    And is it possible to correct this somehow by adjusting the camera?
    Thank you!

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    • Alexis
      15.11.2019

      I started to write a lot of comments, although I don't have such a habit - I just read materials on this wonderful site.
      :-)
      Dear Maria, your problem may be related to an unsuccessful adapter lens: the quality of the Chinese manufacturers is unstable. I can use one of my m42-nik adapters only on crop, although this is an expensive Kipon.
      There may be some conflict between the objective lens and adapter lens. I have something similar with the installation of the Zeiss-Tessar 2,8 / 45 Kontax-box on Nikon - the corners of the frame become blurred, although again the expensive adapter “K&F Concept”. In general, it seems to me that some manufacturers have begun to produce crop adapters. On I-Baye some sellers write that adapters are for, for example, Nikon-d7100, etc., while others are for Nikon-d700, d610, etc. Although, it seems, the adapters are the same.

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  3. Leonid N
    12.01.2020

    “Native old lenses Nikon Pre-Ai, Ai, AI-S, AI-Converted. With such lenses, you need to set the value using the aperture control ring on the lens itself, and the shutting down of the aperture during shooting will be done by the camera itself. ”

    Is it true that auto-exposure on the D7100 crop will be impossible, and it will only be possible to pick it up empirically? Are there any solutions to this problem?

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    • Arkady Shapoval
      12.01.2020

      For AI lenses, everything will work automatically, including metering exposure at different aperture values

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  4. Anton
    17.01.2020

    Hello, Arkady. Is T2 exactly identical to KP-A / N? Ordered this morning under Jupiter-37A, because the old Soviet ones could not be found, at sane prices. I arrived, it looks similar, but its diameter is larger than that of the gearbox, and as a result, you can’t pinch it with adjusting screws, the difference in diameter is almost 4 mm. Either I misunderstood you, or the Chinese didn’t send it right)

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    • Anton
      17.01.2020

      I screwed it somehow, and even works, but everything is kept on three screws, of dumb quality. And not very much like "identical" = (

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      • Oleg
        17.01.2020

        This is normal in the sense that it is conditionally identical, since it does not copy the Soviet adapter, but is used on similar systems. But it gives the main thing - focusing to infinity. I also put on the Ju-37 - it was fixed, it never flew off and did not even loosen. If in doubt, you can either look for bolts more genuinely, or come up with some kind of gasket. It's all simple - no need to disassemble, grind, etc.

        PS Infinity with easy flight, keep this in mind.

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      • Anton
        17.01.2020

        Infinity in the afternoon I will check. I just thought that they would be the same in size, and I was very surprised at what had arrived, and it was not very convenient to center on the eye, because of such a difference in diameters.
        And native optics under T2, is it screwed into the inner liner?

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      • Oleg
        17.01.2020

        I don’t know, I only know that the inner liner has an M42 thread, that is, you can screw a lens with such a thread into it. Just don’t know why)

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      • Anton
        17.01.2020

        There it’s like m42x0.75, and ordinary lenses m42x1.0 have a thread. So you don’t especially screw it in.

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      • Oleg
        17.01.2020

        Screwed in, checked, just did not find application. Now he gave the T2 shank, since he acquired a camera of another system.

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      • Oleg
        17.01.2020

        PS T rings are used to attach the camera to the telescopes (if their design allows it). There are still telephoto lenses that are without a mount and attach to the camera like telescopes. There was once an idea to shoot through a pipe, but it did not come to practical implementation.

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      • Anonymous
        17.01.2020

        There is a 3mm difference. It is advisable to put the gasket, since with it certainly the alignment will be. For example, I cut a strip from a tube from under the sealant.
        Moreover, I did not have infinity, I went to the turner ...

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      • Anton
        18.01.2020

        I looked now, there is no infinity. The range can be 100 meters, with a stretch, and that's it, it does not focus further. Apparently, you also need to grind.

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      • Oleg
        18.01.2020

        So look at the scale on the lens, where infinity begins after the 30 meter mark. … 15 meters - 30 meters - infinity. That is, somewhere around 45 meters is the edge of the focusing, everything further is “infinity”.

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      • Anton
        18.01.2020

        So it makes sense to me to look at the scale, I looked in live. It focuses to a certain range, and then soap without focus just goes on. Although a few years ago, on the same lens, with a native shank, it was focused on the same objects without problems. Like mirrorless sweat later.

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      • Oleg
        18.01.2020

        This is the flight over infinity. It focuses on ... 15 m - 30 m - to infinity, but no fixation occurs on it, the ring still scrolls a little, which gives a defocus.

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      • Anton
        18.01.2020

        It seemed to me during the flight, you turn a little back, and it hits. And here it doesn’t work out, unfortunately, it just doesn’t reach her :)

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      • Oleg
        18.01.2020

        Then it's weird. Everything worked well for me in a bunch of Nikon D70s + Yu-37. It was necessary to bring the ring back a bit.

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      • Oleg
        18.01.2020

        Others

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  5. Daria
    05.06.2020

    Good afternoon! The question is. There is a Helios-44m, I used it with a conventional adapter ring on Nikon D80. Of course, it was impossible to shoot anything except large portraits. Now I'm updating to Nikon D750, do I understand correctly that I can shoot at least waist-deep? And I can only grow up with a ring with a lens with a loss of quality? And one more thing: dandelion is just a replacement for a chip, right I understand?

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    • Alexey
      05.06.2020

      Nikon SLR cameras, in principle, are not intended for installing third-party manual glasses on them due to the too long working distance. you need a kenon or sony or bzk. or just take your own manual nikkors and forget about this bottle Soviet glass)) in essence the question - yes, when changing the crop to a full frame, the angle of view of the lens will become wider by the crop factor, for nikon it is 1.5, that is, it will become what and should be. "Dandelion Lushnikov" is the original name, but in fact it is a small microcontroller, a chip on a printed circuit board glued to an adapter. for nikon cameras, it is necessary so that exposure metering is turned on on younger cameras. for older cameras, it is not needed, the camera can shoot like that.

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    • Gregor
      11.06.2020

      Well, if you really need this Helios, really take any, the cheapest Canon. In this case, you will have metering and infinity, and you will not need to glue a dandelion.

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  6. Andrei
    10.06.2020

    Hello! Thank you very much for the work done in explaining the manual optics of the USSR. I want to ask about the transition from 42M to Nikon mount, an adapter, using a lens on a film camera. For example, the same Jupiter 21M 4 / 200mm. Will it insist on infinity on Nikon FM or is this a problem only with digital mirrors and mirrorless?
    Now I have the opportunity as a hobby to use film photo cameras of Japanese brands. Nikon, Pentax, Minolta. And how experiments use the optics of the USSR.

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    • Alexey
      10.06.2020

      so, after all, the working length of any Nikon SLR camera is the same. so problems with non-native optics will also be similar.

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  7. Paul 68
    13.10.2020

    Good afternoon. I've been looking for a telephoto lens for Nikon D5300 for a long time, but modern lenses are expensive. I learned from your articles that there is
    lenses Tair-3 and Tair-33.
    Please tell me if they fit my Nikon.
    Thank you in advance for your reply.

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  8. Nicholas
    19.10.2020

    Good afternoon. Please tell me if there is any possibility, or adapters, so that, on the contrary, a modern Nikon lens can be attached to a Zenit film camera? thanks in advance.

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    • Arkady Shapoval
      19.10.2020

      There are Nikon F to M42 adapters, but they are very difficult to find.

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    • Alexey
      19.10.2020

      firstly, a modern lens of any system cannot be placed on any old film camera - how to operate it ?? secondly, if you take an old nikkor screwdriver, then, in theory, you can put it somewhere other than nikon. more precisely, not even in theory, but in practice, it is installed on a large number of modern digital cameras. but nothing can be put at the zenith. unless, again, in theory, someone grinds out the adapter. only with the flange you will need to do something. thirdly, why is all this? now you can buy a Nikon film camera for a penny, which is an order of magnitude better than any Soviet camera.

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    • Alex
      19.10.2020

      The most logical option is to buy Kiev 19. Normal viewfinder with exposure meter, beautiful body, cheap price. Any Nikkor with a diaphragm control ring is suitable without any dancing with a tambourine.

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  9. Ivan
    12.01.2021

    MC Peleng 3,5 / 8A is a unique circular fisheye lens for full-motion cameras. Correct

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  10. Sergei
    12.02.2021

    I put it on NICON D3100 with HELIOS-44M-4 ring. After that, the lens does not open, and the display shows “no lens attached”.
    The reason?

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    • B. R. P.
      12.02.2021

      What do you mean “the lens won't open”? The inscription on the display is because the lens has no electronic connection with the camera and the camera “does not see” it. Shoot in M ​​mode, shutter speed, aperture, and ISO manually.

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      • Alexey
        09.03.2021

        that is why the kenon is much more convenient for manual optics. there the exposure meter works even on an open mount.

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  11. Stepan
    09.03.2021

    Tell me what are the differences when working with old optics on NIkon Z cameras?

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    • B. R. P.
      09.03.2021

      The difference is that the flange focal length of these cameras is much shorter than that of DSLRs and you can use lenses from rangefinder cameras as well. The only question is the adapters.

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  12. Maxim Ts
    01.06.2021

    Hello, Arkady! I am very interested in your opinion about the following: I had a Nikon D3100 and work with manuals, namely, the selection of the exposure took place as you described, by trial and error. This had to be done because in the LV screen d3100 for some reason adjusts the brightness itself, regardless of the actual exposure. But having bought the D5200, I was happy to find that in LV mode it shows a real picture that will turn out if you press the shutter. Those. when changing the exposure, manually opening and closing the aperture, changing the shutter speed, the screen darkens or brightens accordingly, which was not the case on the d3100 (there it always kept the same brightness, or rather changed it, but then adjusted it). In fact, the problem of the lack of autoexposure with manual optics in the LV mode disappears in principle. So, for some reason, this is not written anywhere, not as a difference, at least between the D5200 and the D3100, or what happens on the D5200 in exactly the same way. And it's not at all clear why select it if you turned on LV and see the resulting picture? It is just as interesting whether in the entire line of D3 ... well, and D5 ... so? Or is it that I can, where that in the settings have turned-under-turned and what I do not understand?

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    • Arkady Shapoval
      01.06.2021

      Good afternoon, not in all. Only with some cameras, most likely only with d5200-d5600

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      • Maxim Ts
        01.06.2021

        Maybe you need to cover this topic in more detail? - because I say it again: this is heaven and earth. The pursuit of the D7X00 due to autoexposure with manuals in principle disappears, especially since there is no rotary screen, and the D5X00 has a big “+”. I myself suffered for a long time between them, but in the end the rotary screen won out and there was such an unexpected surprise. After all, focusing is still better and more accurate on the screen with a magnifying glass (the point in the VI often smears) and the selection of the exposure (shutter speed) with the wheel is only a couple of seconds without any tests. Maybe someone will respond with other models, like yours with the above?

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      • Arkady Shapoval
        01.06.2021

        Ok I'll take a note on this

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      • Maxim Ts
        01.06.2021

        It will be very good, it can be useful to many. There are some facets in the form of exposure not shorter than 1/30, I did not check the long one. Changing the ISO also affects the picture. You have created a very good site, Arkady, we can safely say “popular”. It's nice to participate in improving it)

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      • Arkady Shapoval
        04.06.2021

        added a note about it https://radojuva.com/2021/06/exposure-metering-with-ai-s-non-cpu-and-d5200-5300-5500-5600/ and posted information in relevant articles. Thanks for the tip

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      • Maxim Ts
        06.06.2021

        You're welcome. Now at least I myself will know that this function can also be turned off inadvertently)

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    • Artyom A
      03.01.2023

      If I understand you correctly, then on the flashed D5100 in manual mode, LV also immediately shows a change in exposure, ISO, shutter speed, etc.

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  13. Gennady
    06.12.2021

    Good afternoon.
    I noticed a strange feature in the behavior of the D7000 camera with Helios 81H: a clear overexposure occurs at apertures 8 and less. From 2 to 5,6 - everything seems to be normal, and then the camera starts to bully the ISO, you have to apply compensation up to -3, ... but this is only when using VI, if you shoot through LV - on the same scenes and under the same lighting - there is less iso and there is no overexposure.
    The lens is registered in the camera, the camera sees it ...
    Mode "A"; ISO-AUTO from 100; max shutter speed 1/30.
    What could be the reason?

    PS: with "native" 24-120 and 70-300 everything works fine.

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    • Arkady Shapoval
      06.12.2021

      Some Helios have other accesses and not quite AI (that is, not linear control of the jump rope displacement)

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  14. Gennady
    06.12.2021

    And why, when switching to LV, the exposure parameters are normalized?
    And if the aperture on the lens is closed at 11, on the info-screen F11 ... what is the nonlinearity
    I look in the VI - ISO 5000, I raise the mirror, LV turns on - ISO 1200

    I just want to understand the physics of the process.

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    • Gennady
      07.12.2021

      Conducted experiments in similar conditions with Kalinar-5 and Nikkor 35-70 - everything works fine, at all aperture values ​​when using VI and LV, the exposure metering is accurate.

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  15. Alexander
    23.08.2022

    Under the N mount, there was another interesting lens Yantar 20N 35-200 I don’t remember the aperture ratio, I saw it live only once when I was still shooting with Kyiv-19.

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    • B. R. P.
      23.08.2022

      3,5-4,5

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  16. Postcode
    24.12.2022

    Does it make sense (and is it doable by just unscrewing and screwing to switch the mounts) to switch an AI-S lens mount with an AI mount to get AI-s functionally on a Nikon D700 body. I would like to do this to my 200mm micro f4 classic lens.

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    • B. R. P.
      24.12.2022

      What functionality do you want exactly?

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  17. Oksana
    04.03.2023

    Good evening! I have a Miranda EC 135mm 2.8 lens, and I can't find out what kind of mount it is and are there NIKON adapters for it?

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    • Rodion
      04.03.2023

      Good evening! This system is also called Miranda, there are hardly any adapters for Nikon DSLRs (if there are, they will be with a lens that worsens the image), Nikon mirrorless ones should be available, but they will probably be rare and expensive.

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  18. redo192
    12.04.2023

    Muchas gracias por su artículo, nos permite utilizar lentes estupendos con muy baja inversión. Saludos

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  19. Jury
    24.04.2023

    Good afternoon. How is it more correct to focus manually (turn the ring) - from infinity or vice versa to infinity?

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    • B. R. P.
      24.04.2023

      Without a difference.

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