will my Nikon lenses work on a Canon 7D???

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Nicholas Natteau

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I own a Nikon D700 and I'm about to take the plunge on a Canon 7D.

I have a number of great Nikon lenses for my Nikon D700:

• AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR I
• AF-S VR Micro-NIKKOR 105mm f/2.8G IF-ED
• AF-S NIKKOR 50mm f/1.4G

Will these work on the Canon 7D or do I need to purchase a Canon adapter for Nikon lenses???

If they fit, then I can just purchase the Canon 7D body and use my Nikon lenses. Otherwise, I would start off with the 18-135mm stock lens with the 7D.

Thanks very much in advance for any advice.

- Nick
 
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Yes, you lenses will "Work" on an EOS mount camera. However, the adaptors are mechanical adaptors and you will loose the ability to control focus and iris through the camera. I use Nikon lenses on a T2i, but the lenses I have are all manual focus and iris. I know that there are people working on making adaptors for the M 4:3 mount that allows the use of autofocus/auto iris lenses of diffrent manufacture on the M 4:3 cameras, but I do not know that is a development that is available for Nikon to EOS mount adaptors yet.
 
Any Nikon lens with a manual aperture ring will work fine. No aperture ring... sorry. This is why I refuse to by proprietary lenses. They just walk you down a bad path.
 
is there a certain suffix or prefix in the model number that's going to let you know whether or not it can be manually controlled (assuming they don't have a photo of it on there)?
 
Thanks everybody.

I forgot to mention that I also have three Zeiss lenses:
the 85mm Planar T f1.4, Planar T 50mm f1.4, and Distagon T 35mm f2.

Will these fit also, or do I need to purchase an adapter for my Zeiss lenses?
 
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