I’m looking to step into professional photography, studied at college etc.
I’m broke though, but I need a camera. So I shall get the D90. After much consideration. Such as, I live in a city and the D90 is light making it an excellent camera for street photography (often overlooked as a perk I might add).
The D90 will make an excellent back up camera when I can finally afford something more on par with professional spec.
But for as much reading as I’ve done a few things elude me, such as the true benefit of full frame. And a question which I’m sure every idiot but this one seems to know… which is whether the lenses that fit the D90 are/will be compatible with other Nikon SLRs.
I just can’t read anymore random reviews looking for the answer… someone please tell me.
Yes. All modern Nikon bodies use the same lens mount. The only thing is that if any of your lenses are "DX" then that means they’re only designed to project an image circle onto the smaller sensors found in cameras like the D90 and D300. They’ll still work with the D700 and D3, though the picture will be auto cropped to only use a portion of their much larger FX sensors equaling roughly 5 Megapixels.
The benefit of full frame is that you’re getting a sensor that’s actually the same size as a frame of 135 film. This means there’s no crop factor… lenses that were designed for standard 135 film cameras will have the same field of view. Also the much larger surface area means that they can collect more light, which leads to improved ISO performance and dynamic range.

Yes. All modern Nikon bodies use the same lens mount. The only thing is that if any of your lenses are "DX" then that means they’re only designed to project an image circle onto the smaller sensors found in cameras like the D90 and D300. They’ll still work with the D700 and D3, though the picture will be auto cropped to only use a portion of their much larger FX sensors equaling roughly 5 Megapixels.
The benefit of full frame is that you’re getting a sensor that’s actually the same size as a frame of 135 film. This means there’s no crop factor… lenses that were designed for standard 135 film cameras will have the same field of view. Also the much larger surface area means that they can collect more light, which leads to improved ISO performance and dynamic range.
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