Nikon Lens Question on Metering

kithylin

At the suggestion of an Australian friend of mine, I'm going to be expanding my lens selection for my D70 to a third fast lens, most likely a 50mm F/1.8. But i have a question about this specific lens.

Can anyone confirm or deny if the "Nikon AF 50mm F/1.8" will support my camera's "3d matrix metering" system?

Or do I have to spend a little more and get the "Nikon AF 50mm F/1.8D" version?

From a little googling and on Nikon's site I've found that the "D" is supposed to mean it "talks" to my camera and translates distance information to it for various functions.

Basically I'm trying to figure out if the older Before-the-D-version supports matrix metering, then I can just get that instead, it's cheaper, but not by a lot.

The prices I've found so far are $70 - $85 for "non-D" and $90 - $125 for the "D" version.

I know it's such a little price difference that most of you would think it's minuscule or not worth bothering, but.. I've been selling things on eBay for weeks to get the money together for 2 lenses. I bought the first one, a tamron about 14 days ago, and now this one is next. I have no job and no income, currently, so... every little dollar seems like a lot, to me, right now, and I'm all out of things to sell.

Edit: Also, for now I shoot most of my shots primarily hand-held, although might be doing some tripod work once I get this fast lens, which will be for portrait and indoors work.

time2smile

The 50 non D worked fine on my D50 and D90 camera's. if i read things right, i think the D only has an effect for the flash. I sold my 50, it was just to much on a crop body, pick up the 35, and love it.

here's a link to look at from Ken
http://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/nikortek.htm#afd

kithylin

time2smile wrote: »

The 50 non D worked fine on my D50 and D90 camera's. if i read things right, i think the D only has an effect for the flash. I sold my 50, it was just to much on a crop body, pick up the 35, and love it.

here's a link to look at from Ken
http://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/nikortek.htm#afd

Yeah I read all of that, but all of my photography friends I chat with on a regular basis, and folks on other threads on this website say what ever's written in Ken's site is to be generally ignored. Yeah I thought the "D" data was for flash too, and I just wasn't sure if normal non-flash shots would still use my camera's 3d matrix metering or not.... you don't remember?

time2smile

I can say that i used matrix and had no problem with the non D version, when i used the flash the shots came out a little overexposed compared to my other D lens. I just turned it down by -1.

I agree, that Ken's personal opion may be questionable at times.

kithylin

time2smile wrote: »

I can say that i used matrix and had no problem with the non D version, when i used the flash the shots came out a little overexposed compared to my other D lens. I just turned it down by -1.

I agree, that Ken's personal opion may be questionable at times.

Thank you very much, this is the information I was looking for, from someone that's actually used this lens.