Reflex Nikkor 500/8 N on Zf

[Jürgen Pfeiffer]

IBIS is easily set for non cpu lenses, but chipped lenses are at the mercy of how the chip plays with IBIS. I am pretty sure I heard that Dandelion chips can’t pass accurate IBIS info.

Richard, thank you very much for your advice regarding the Dandelion chip. You are right, the IBIS of the Nikon Zf does not work with a lens with a Dandelion chip. How could I not have noticed that! Shame on me.

Now the Dandelion user is in a dilemma. With Dandelion: correct EXIF ​​data, aperture control via the camera dial, focus confirmation via green frame.

Without Dandelion: functioning IBIS, aperture setting on the aperture ring, no comprehensive EXIF ​​data.

Choosing between these options is actually quite simple: original Nikon FTZ for use with Dandelion, third-party „dumb“ adapter for use without a chip.

I'm going for the second option, I prefer the aperture setting on the lens to the dial on the camera anyway.

Thank you again for your important advice.

[Hugh_3170]

I know that it is very "clunky", but some (but not all) Z camera bodies allow a voice recording to be made, e.g. the Z6, so that facility could be used to record verbal EXIF data for subsequent insertion via your computer.

Yes, clunky, but sometimes handy.

Richard, thank you very much for your advice regarding the Dandelion chip. You are right, the IBIS of the Nikon Zf does not work with a lens with a Dandelion chip. How could I not have noticed that! Shame on me.

Now the Dandelion user is in a dilemma. With Dandelion: correct EXIF ​​data, aperture control via the camera dial, focus confirmation via green frame.

Without Dandelion: functioning IBIS, aperture setting on the aperture ring, no comprehensive EXIF ​​data.

Choosing between these options is actually quite simple: original Nikon FTZ for use with Dandelion, third-party „dumb“ adapter for use without a chip.

I'm going for the second option, I prefer the aperture setting on the lens to the dial on the camera anyway.

Thank you again for your important advice.

[Snoogly]

Richard, thank you very much for your advice regarding the Dandelion chip. You are right, the IBIS of the Nikon Zf does not work with a lens with a Dandelion chip. How could I not have noticed that! Shame on me.

Now the Dandelion user is in a dilemma. With Dandelion: correct EXIF ​​data, aperture control via the camera dial, focus confirmation via green frame.

Without Dandelion: functioning IBIS, aperture setting on the aperture ring, no comprehensive EXIF ​​data.

Choosing between these options is actually quite simple: original Nikon FTZ for use with Dandelion, third-party „dumb“ adapter for use without a chip.

I'm going for the second option, I prefer the aperture setting on the lens to the dial on the camera anyway.

Thank you again for your important advice.

That’s why I stuck the chip onto the filter. Filter on, filter off ;-)

[Øivind Tøien]

I only have one Dandelion chip, on a BR2, and got curious so I had to check it out as I had yet to use it on the Z8. What I find is that to make it register the focal length programmed into it when mounted on the Z8 via the FTC II adapter, it has to be mounted while the camera is turned on. Then IBIS then works and is available in the menu, otherwise it does not register at all and Z8 will use any non-cpu data that is already set at the time to guide the IBIS. So the trick to make my Dandelion work on the Z8 after mounting normally with camera off (to protect sensor against dust) is to then twist it to half dismounted and back again with camera turned on. I cannot verify the effectiveness, but I can then hear IS working when I expose and it is turned on in the menu. My Dandelion is quite old, from 2011 or earlier, and from the above it would seem like the design might have changed, or perhaps different camera models respond differently. (My Dandelion version is the one that registers as a G-chip.)

This seems to be part of the same problem as with Birna's chips that do not fully register after being mounted while Z8 is off, but opposed to with the Dandelion, Z8 will register correct EXIF data in other fields than the Lens Model field so that IBIS works without using the above trick.