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If Nikon had just made this decision back in the film days, you could mount and use grandpa's old manual F lenses, Dad's old AF lenses & your new Z lenses all with 100% compatibility of all features. It if fairly clear what Nikon is saying by not putting a AF motor in Z bodies and not having an adapter with an AF motor. There have been advancements in lens motors over the years (speed and sound) that can't be taken advantage of if you are stuck with one in body AF motor. of AF motor to the lens is a better strategy that a one size fits all in body AF motor. Matching speed, torque, sound, type, etc. Which isn't possible if your in body AF motor fails. I rather AF in the lens fail than in the body, you can use a different lens and keep shooting. Wow, I guess that is why the AF motor in the body is prevailing tech now, huh? Kona said "Having an AF motor in the body was a brilliant idea". The D lenses still work with most body all the way to the D6.
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Obviously it is much more expensive to put a motor in the lens - every lens has to have a motor - reliability also a problem in those early days of primitive electronic miniaturization - if anyone open up an early lens they could count a few dozen hand soldered and loose wires inside the lens barrel - some even had sticky tapes - Nikon solution was seen as more secure and cheap to introduce and much more reliable - just a mechanical actuator rod driving the focusing helicoid - as technology evolved and more advanced microprocessor invented Nikon introduced the AF-S lens - much more expensive offering with silent wave motor - initially only offered to the more prestige professional lenses - and they have over the year replaced all those earlier AF-D lenses with a AF-S version - most photographers opted to buy the new AF-S lenses rather than the AF-D. "Canon EF came out in 1987 and every lens had the AF motor in the lens" We all know the Z mount cameras have no problem using the old F lenses via the FTZ. Nikon never saw the need of ditching the F mount - they just re-engineered and improved it over the years - incorporated autofocus, electronic actuator etc into the camera body and lens mount all the while keeping the new lenses reasonably compatible with older Nikon bodies - of course it is much easier to cut off the past and start afresh - but that not Nikon way.

I am happy with my D300s, D800, D850 all have internal focusing motor - to drive my collection of AF-D lenses - it was a brilliant move by Nikon - Canon couldn't engineer it so they have to ditch their lens mount and alienated hundred thousands of Canon users worldwide - bad move.

That little drive shaft is just sitting there waiting for an old lens that will never be mounted. "There thousands and thousands of current Nikon bodies out there with internal AF motors that have never focused a lens.

They are only useful in AF-S mode… and manual focusing on a mirrorless is so easy to nail that the value of AF support is actually very Mike If you want us to take you seriously please get rid of the anti-Nikon mindset.Īs a final comment, these pre AF-S lenses’s focusing speed even on a D6 (I know I tried) is basically unusable for any moving subject. This following hundreds of posts with a similar clear trend of lack of objectivity about Nikon. This is as far as it gets from an objective take at the situation. You are comparing Mt Everest (what Canon did in the 80s and may soon do again with the M mount with millions of people impacted) to a small hill (the only partial support by Nikon of lenses more than 20 years older, partial support that may only be temporary) and telling us they have the same height. I and several others have already demonstrated with utmost clarity that your argument doesn’t make any sense.
