Lushnikov Dandelion for Nikon

Please note that Lushnikov’s dandelion is for Nikon and Canon, as well as for other systems. This review presents exactly Dandelion Lushnikova for Nikon AF.

Lushnikov dandelion for Nikon. Poster.

Lushnikov dandelion for Nikon. Poster.

Lushnikov's dandelion is brilliant invention Russian inventor and amateur photographer Viktor Lushnikov, which gives a second life to manual optics and speeds up the work with manual lenses. The invention is popular even in the West, where it is known under the name 'Dandelion For Nikon By Victor Lushnikov '. A manual lens is a lens without CPU contacts on the lens.

What is so ingenious about it - but the fact that it allows you to make a not quite 'old' one from an old non-autofocus lens. Of course, to make autofocus from a manual lens is a matter only for a photo guru, but it is quite possible to make a pseudo-autofocus.

Example photo on a lens with a dandelion

Example photo on a lens with a dandelion

Let's start with the task:

When using any manual optics in younger Nikon cameras, such as D40, D40x, D50, D60, D70, D70s, D80, D90, D100, D3000, D3100, D3200, D5000, D5100, D5200, D3300, D5300 metering will not work. That is, if the lens does not have a chip for communicating with the camera, then the camera will simply refuse to measure exposure. Due to the lack of metering, it will not be possible to use the camera in any mode other than mode-M. This imposes its limitations on the speed of the photographer. Who has older cameras by type Nikon D200, D300, D2x, D3s, D700, D7000 - so take care of the measurement exposure no reason. True, there is a tendency that the steeper the camera, the less sophisticated a person is in manual lenses, which can be easily replaced with sophisticated autofocus analogs. Attention, old manual lenses really work on younger Nikon cameras only in manual camera control mode.

Example photo on a lens with a dandelion

Example photo on a lens with a dandelion

On junior Nikon cameras will have to determine the metering exposure by eye or by histogram. With experience, you can pretty well guess the shutter speed / aperture / ISO, but with any change in lighting you need to constantly rebuild and “shoot”. For example, the sun went behind the cloud and the shutter speed needs to be adjusted almost twice.

Nikon AF Lushnikov Dandelion allows Nikon cameras to automatically measure exposure.

How he does it? Very simply, he communicates with the camera and the camera thinks that it has a “native” lens with certain data on it.

Example photo on a lens with a dandelion

Example photo on a lens with a dandelion

Data: focal length and aperture can be programmed into a dandelion. This is done very simply according to the instructions. Programming is done by a set of pictures with certain shutter speeds.

As a result, you can program real lens datato be transmitted in EXIF snapshot module. It is really very convenient.

Example photo on a lens with a dandelion Lushnikov

Example photo on a lens with a dandelion Lushnikov

For older cameras, this function is also very convenient, as it allows you to program only a certain number of lenses inside the camera. And programming the lens for each camera is extra time, in contrast to the one-time programming of the dandelion on the lens.

Example photo on a lens with a dandelion Lushnikov

Example photo on a lens with a dandelion Lushnikov

If you have a manual lens with a blinking aperture, like old Nikon lenses AI-S,AI, Non-ai, Pre-ai, then you can make it so that you can control the iris from the camera itself. This is generally a great feature that is not available even in older Nikon camerasif you don't use Lushnikov's Dandelion. Actually, I will explain - set the aperture will be possible in the camera, as for a regular Nikon aft-focus lens. For an example, I will give Kaleinar-5Non which I installed this Dandelion. I performed the installation myself.

For Kaleinar-5n, the dandelion is programmed by setting the maximum and minimum aperture, after which the diaphragm can be controlled from the camera using the control dial. My Nikon D90 works in any mode, even automatic (Auto - green zone).

Example photo on a lens with a dandelion Lushnikov

Example photo on a lens with a dandelion Lushnikov

Another indispensable plus is pseudo-auto focus (focus trap). That is, if you focus in focus mode AF-S and AF-A and press the shutter button completely, the camera will take a picture only when it is confident in the exact focus. Very comfortably - pressed the button and slowly turn the focus ring until the shutter releases. On trial Kaleinar-5n with a dandelion in AF-S mode with automatic selection of the focusing area, there were about 20% misses, in AF-S mode and single-point focusing there were almost no misses.

Also, autofocus mode can be turned off either using the camera or programmatically (as if the switch on the lens itself).

Example photo on a lens with a dandelion Lushnikov

Example photo on a lens with a dandelion Lushnikov

Of course, there are also disadvantages of dandelion:

  1. Not the easiest installation technique. Although it’s easy to cope with.
  2. Measurement Errors exposure when working with auto iris, especially on closed apertures.
  3. Measurement Errors exposure when working with flash. Errors within normal limits even in FP mode.
Dandelion shot with a dandelion

Dandelion shot with a dandelion

There are far fewer drawbacks than opportunities. The article contains photographs taken with matrix metering at the camera Nikon D90 and with an upgraded lens. The photo shows the amendments to exposure of EXIF. Strong correction should be done after closing the aperture at F8.0. This is most likely due to the not completely linear aperture for the MS lens. Kaleinar-5N.

My experience:

I don't use dandelion on either Canon or Nikon cameras. Learning to use old lenses without modifying them on modern Nikon and Canon cameras is as easy as shelling pears. Detailed instructions on using old lenses on any SLR or system camera can be found in the section 'How to use old lenses on modern Nikon cameras?'

Conclusion:

Lushnikov Dandelion for Nikon AF allows for all modern digital SLR cameras from Nikon get measured exposure and use the camera at least - in aperture priority, and as a maximum - in any available mode on the mode dial :). For a range of lenses (especially for H mount) It is possible to control the diaphragm directly from the camera. And also we get sound focus confirmation and the ability to take photos only when the lens reaches accurate focus. Still appears possibility of focus adjustment... Lushnikov's Dandelion is a great inexpensive option to upgrade your old lens.

Where to buy?

As strange as it may sound, it is easiest to buy such a chip nowadays on Aliexpress: with a chip without a lens here, with lens and chip here. Why a lens?

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Comments: 428, on the topic: Dandelion Lushnikova for Nikon

  • Novel

    Sorry for the trivial question - it seems to me that your "little thing" will not work with lenses at all, since you may have a "chip with contacts", but it is not connected to anything by a loop of connection to the sensors, which should be in the lens design Well-known companies are working on this, and in the design of the lens there are sensors with stubs that are connected with connections such as your so-called “chip”. Truly, this is just a transfer connection to the camera and nothing more, and the chip must beat inside the lens which is connected to the sensors on the lens ... Scam? Or am I wrong? I appeal to the site visitors. This is an example - you have a TV set and a cut cord to it, and you plugged this cord into an outlet! What will come of this?

    • Arkady Shapoval

      Please read the full article and then ask questions of this kind. Dandelion is designed to deceive the camera’s electronics, which artificially blocks the ability to confirm the focus by a signal, measure exposure, etc.
      This is not a scam. You are not right. As for the TV, the example is fundamentally wrong :) In this case, the dandelion tunes the TV to channels that the “camera” cannot catch itself.

  • Jury

    What is the best glue to stick a dandelion?

  • Jury

    Sorry, I saw the answer about the glue on the previous page ...

  • Sergei

    Glued to the MS Mir-24N. I stitched it for this lens, activated the jump rope control. I tested it. Focus sound confirmation - smears, disabled AF on carcasses. At the point, it turns out to be much more accurate to focus, and it's already more familiar. =) All camera modes work (Nikon D50). In modes A, it correctly measures the exposure only on an open hole, already from 2,8, illumination begins. In the S mode, it is difficult to find the required aperture for the carcasses, both overexposure and underexposure occur. In P mode, it gives good results, but requires the correct choice of WB, you have to take test shots, "WB Auto" mode is wrong. In fully automatic mode, everything is fine! The carcass works with the lens as if it were native, the only difference is manual focusing.
    Tested only indoors in the light of three lamps of 45 watts.
    I think outside, in daylight, the results in modes A and S will differ significantly (in the positive direction).
    I'll have to try to get out on the weekend ...

    PS: This opinion is purely personal. Passion for photography 3 months. I photograph only Soviet optics.

    • Arkady Shapoval

      Thank you for sharing your experience. D50 in poor conditions gives an error in exposure and with native lenses.

  • Nicholas

    When installing a lens with a dandelion on the D3000 and D5000 cameras, the dandelion contacts may break due to the structure of the contact group of these cameras.

  • Vladimir

    Please tell me how to install a dandelion on the Helios 81H D3100 camera? Where can I get a template like in your kaleinar?

    • Arkady Shapoval

      The template is included.

  • Oleg Yudin

    the problem with installing this device on Nikkor 135 / 2.8 Ai-S, you have to cut out the ledge on the skirt near the button accordion

  • Julia

    Tell me, if it makes sense to try to install a dandelion for d3100 and Jupiter-11? Today I read your article about Jupiter, I decided to buy it, but now I read that there will probably be too much trouble on my camera.

  • thread

    Good evening. I did not quite understand: programming a dandelion is necessary only for imprinting data in exif, if it is not done, will exposure metering be available? Thank you in advance.

    • Arkady Shapoval

      It will be available with standard settings.

  • Flight

    Will the TTL flash work on the Nikon d5100 with an old lens?

    • Arkady Shapoval

      Yes, it will.

  • Vova

    Tell me, a dandelion is placed on the Helios 81 N, which aperture should have good sharpness (5.6 or 8-11)?

    • Arkady Shapoval

      In the center of the frame, if the lens is normal, then good sharpness starts at 2.8

  • Vova

    What is better in my case, a matrix, center, weighted or point?

    • Arkady Shapoval

      You did not describe your case.

  • Vova

    in which measurement is it better to take pictures so that a good picture is obtained?

    • Arkady Shapoval

      You have not described in which case. The metering method affects the exposure, in each situation you need your own method of metering, but in most cases a matrix is ​​enough, I recommend it.

  • Vova

    ok thanks for the tip

  • Valery.

    pss

  • Vova

    Arkady hi.
    If I understand correctly, the focus mode on Nikon with manual optics in my case with dandelion will be only one point at a time or auto mode (then focus on the closest subjects) is in frame-by-frame focusing mode. Is this the case or do I need to reset the settings on the camera?

    • Arkady Shapoval

      Any mode that is available in the camera will work. You just need to program the dandelion correctly.

      • Vyacheslav

        Good afternoon! Please help me set up a dandelion correctly on Nikon d3100 (Arsat 1: 2/50). Another master "cleaned" the lens for me now in the very center of the lens, which is closer to the camera, a dot appeared. Can this dot distort the image in the picture? thanks!

        • Arkady Shapoval

          It can distort, but most likely the distortion is minimal.

  • Jury

    I want to buy a lens with a dandelion installed, I have a Nikon D7000, will I lose anything at the same time? I take such a lens, because the price is fine :)

    • Arkady Shapoval

      On the D7000, you can use it without dandelion. A confirmation of focus appears with a dandelion.

      • Jury

        thank you

      • Dmitriy

        Thank you very much!

  • Vyacheslav

    Confirmation of focus can smear?

    • Arkady Shapoval

      Can.

  • Valery.

    1) What is the probability that when I glue the dandelion myself, I will not glue it correctly, and goodbye to my grannies?
    2) what is the service life of this dandelion ?, do not want to buy it and throw it out in six months since it crumbles?

    • Arkady Shapoval

      I can not answer these questions. In general.
      1) this is a risk
      2) the service life depends on careful handling.

      • Valery.

        Thank you.

  • Sanya

    I’ve wanted for a long time, but I decided to buy a dandelion, put on two-sided tape and the 88th glue for pouring malech and without a template, since I got it for kenon, it’s stupidly wrong, and it works fine on three of my lenses (Helios-44m, Industar-61l, Jupiter-37a) EVERYTHING IS EXCELLENT who thinks take it, I thought for a long time and then I decided. Everything is simple in programming and installation.

  • Sanya

    Helios 44m

  • Vladimir

    Arkady I had such a problem, I bought a Helios 44m lens with an m42-Nikon adapter ring, with Lushnikov’s already glued dandelion on the ring! I insert the lens into the camera, it gives me: Lock the lens at the smallest relative aperture using the manual aperture ring (maximum f /). I have a nikon d 3100 camera, can you advise me something?

    • Arkady Shapoval

      Try reprogramming a dandelion

    • Dmitriy

      Hello ! You have a small lever on the camera under the lens, it is located for about 7 hours, when viewed from the side of the lens. Drown him and block something, try a match. After that, the lens should be determined and all functions will work.

  • Vladimir

    Arkady, the fact of the matter is that I can’t reprogram it, it doesn’t let me in, I just can’t even take a picture, and for programming I need to make three of them. I read this in the instructions.

    • Arkady Shapoval

      Try in M ​​mode.

  • Vladimir

    I put the camera in M ​​mode, and all the same!

  • Vladimir

    I can’t just take pictures! And that’s it!

    • Arkady Shapoval

      I don’t even know what to advise. Dandelion wasn’t such a panacea.

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