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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;benveniste, post: 1782962, member: 25547&quot;]<p style="text-align: left"><font size="3"><font face="arial"><span style="color: #000000">First things first. Pre-AI lenses can only be safely used on the following Nikon dSLR&#039;s:</span></font></font></p> <p style="text-align: left"><font size="3"><font face="arial"><span style="color: #000000">D40, D40x, D60, D3x00, and D5x00. Trying to mount one on another DX body can damage both the body and the lens. Second, the 55mm f/3.5 only allows for 1:2 magnification, so anything smaller than a brass buck isn&#039;t going to fill the frame on a DX camera. </span></font></font></p> <p style="text-align: left"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: left"><font size="3"><font face="arial"><span style="color: #000000">As for close-up lenses or macro converters, these too come a different price points and different quality. While I normally use a &quot;real&#039; macro lens for coin photography, here are a couple of shots of my own cleaned 1853 A&amp;R taken using a (now discontinued) Nikon 6T.</span></font></font></p> <p style="text-align: left"><br /></p><p><font size="3"><font face="arial"><span style="color: #000000">[ATTACH]285832[/ATTACH]</span></font><font face="arial"><span style="color: #000000">[ATTACH]285833[/ATTACH]</span></font><font face="arial"><span style="color: #000000">[ATTACH]285834[/ATTACH]</span></font></font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font size="3"><font face="arial"><span style="color: #000000">To keep bandwidth reasonable, I only included a 100% crop of a small area. Since the Nikon 6T is a 2-element design, chromatic aberration is greatly reduced. It&#039;s also only a +3 diopter model, which is usually of better quality and more comfortable to work with than a higher powered lens. </span></font><font face="arial"><span style="color: #000000">The Marumi </span></font><font face="arial"><span style="color: #444444">DHG Achromatic Macro </span></font><font face="arial"><span style="color: #444444"><b>330</b></span></font><font face="arial"><span style="color: #000000"> is of similar strength and quality as the Nikon 6T and is available new in a variety of sizes. It even gives you a bit more working room than the 55mm.</span></font></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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