Is this an AF or AF-S lens? In another words, does it have internal motor for the autofocus or does it require the camera body to command the focus?
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I am not sure where the motor is. You can focus the lens manually off the camera or on for that matter.
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It does use the camera body motor to focus. It is not the quietest but it's very accurate and quick. One of my favorite lenses!
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The Sigma for Sony A mounts has a built in micro motor. Rapid and accurate with a NEX-7 It adapts with the LA-2 A mount to E mount.
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The Nikon D5100 doesn't have a focus motor (screw type), so it requires AF-S lenses to focus. This lens doesn't have AF-S, but the following one does: http://www.amazon.com/Sigma-70-300mm-Motorized-Telephoto-Cameras/dp/B0012X61U2/
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It will not autofocus. If you purchase this lens you will have to manually focus all of your shots
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This is a "Stepping Motor Lens". MICRO FOCUS is an automatic feature of this lens.
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There are two type of Nikon camera bodies; one with the auto focus motor in the body and one without. This lens has a focus motor inside of it and is made for a camera body without the focusing motor. You need to find out what type of body the F5 is.
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Christina: Your camera will not autofocus with an AF lens, as it does not contain the motor inside the camera. (SWM), but will perform all other functions manually. You need AF-S lenses which contain SWM motor. That is why the difference in price from an AF-S and an FS only. I hope this might help.
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My Daughter has this Camera and now her auto focus isn't working on it, so she has to manually focus it. I'm wondering if it is the lens or is it the body of the camera. She only has one lens so she hasn't been able to trouble shoot the problem and since she's away at college I'm unable to do anything about it at the moment. Anyone have any ideas?Thanks
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FTM means that you can focus manually with active autofocus without worrying about destroying the AF drive (like cheap micromotor AF drives). Additionally you can switch the lens to completely manual drive to ensure that the AF drive of your camera does interfere your manual work.
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I believe this does have a built in focus motor hence the "AF" in the name. Which means this should work with D3200 and all the other DX cameras that doesn't have the focus motor in the body.
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Nope, it doesn't feature any motor/engine to move the optics and do the autofocus, it's completely manual. But at 8mm focal distance, it doesn't matter, set the distance ring to infinity and the aperture ring to f11 and pretty much everything will be perfectly focused all the time.
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So basically what they are talking about is the difference between cameras with an auto-focus motor built right into the camera body so that all lenses you use will be auto foucusing. Or at least allow you to choose autofocus if yo so desire. And, the cameras that require a lens with a motor built in. For nikon, those are the AF-S lenses. You can go either way. I had the 3100 without the motor which made this "nifty 50" lens exclusively manual focus for me and would also be your experience. I had a great time learning to control that but if you ever get into charging people money for your photos, you probably want something a little more reliable in terms of auto focus. So basically what they are talking about is the difference between cameras with an auto-focus motor built right into the camera body so that all lenses you use will be auto foucusing. Or at least allow you to choose autofocus if yo so desire. And, the cameras that require a lens with a motor built in. For nikon, those are the AF-S lenses. You can go either way. I had the 3100 without the motor which made this "nifty 50" lens exclusively manual focus for me and would also be your experience. I had a great time learning to control that but if you ever get into charging people money... » Read More So basically what they are talking about is the difference between cameras with an auto-focus motor built right into the camera body so that all lenses you use will be auto foucusing. Or at least allow you to choose autofocus if yo so desire. And, the cameras that require a lens with a motor built in. For nikon, those are the AF-S lenses. You can go either way. I had the 3100 without the motor which made this "nifty 50" lens exclusively manual focus for me and would also be your experience. I had a great time learning to control that but if you ever get into charging people money for your photos, you probably want something a little more reliable in terms of auto focus. « Show Less
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No, this one isn't (at least the copy I bought didn't have it). You'd need a Nikon D50, D70, D90, D300, D7000 or similar in order to use autofocus (AF-D mode). There is another model that includes an AF-S motor and includes the feature in the description.
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Yep; but it won't have AF. You can only manually focus. For AF, you'll need an AF-S or AFI lens.
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It have a autofocus motor BUT you can only AF mode with the nikon D7000 or advance. Why? Because the lens dont have a switch to can change from manual to auto focus, so the cameras that have the switch so you can change ir from the camera are the nikon d7000 and the newers like D7100 and all the full frames
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Hello,I too was confused when I first bought that camera. especially after purchasing lenses for it and getting the wrong ones. This lens is not going to work with your camera. The camera is great but it doesn't have a focus motor in the actual camera itself. So, you have to make sure all the lenses you buy have a motor in them. They will say AF-S in the title. They are easily distinguishable by the buttons on the side of the lens (M/AF). Similar to the stock lens that comes with the D5000. Hope this helps !
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Not in autofocus. The D5200 does not have an internal AF motor in the body which this lens requires for AF function. I would suggest the Nikon 18-70mm f3.5-4.5 AF-S which has the AF motor in the lens as an alternative at a comparable price
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This lens is totally manual. You have to set the aperture and shutter speed manually. In fact, you have to turn off the auto focus and any other auto/electronic feature off in your camera