Legacy 2 Digital

Nikon CPU lenses on your DSLR Nikon camera. Enjoy all metering and exposure modes and full EXIF data using classic manual focus lenses.

Are you a Nikon digital SLR user who wants access to the millions of manual focus Nikkor lenses? Frustrated by the difficulties getting your camera to work properly with manual lenses? Tired of limited functionality, no metering, or having to rely on the cumbersome manual lens database? Read on!

Precision machined cut-out and Digital Matrix chip ready for installation

The Nikon F-mount lens legacy NIKON is one of the few camera manufacturers to offer mount compatibility with its lenses going back to its first SLR cameras in the late 1950s. Photographers have bought into the Nikon F-mount lens system because of its compatibility with legacy lenses. Professionals, enthusiast, and amateur photographers have enjoyed the great optics, handling characteristics, and unique image “signature” of Nikkor lenses for over six decades.

Build quality of manual focus Nikkors is unsurpassed.

While Nikon has retained the F-mount into the digital era, the company has tiered their camera bodies in part by limiting interoperability among camera, metering system, and lens. As a result, Nikon users of cameras like the D40, D60, D90, D3100, D5100, and others, cannot fully enjoy legacy F-mount manual focus lenses with the convenience of digital imaging. Nikon increasingly has made manual focus lens compatibility a feature of the professional level bodies only, such as the D1-D3, and more recently D300 and D7000 series cameras. But even with a pro level body, each manual lens must first be programed into the non-CPU lens database and then selected each time it is used. Despite this work-around to accommodate classic Nikkors, there are limitations with exposure modes and the need to manually coordinate lens choice with the database.

Legacy2digital The L2D Digital Matrix lens conversion brings manual focus Nikon lenses into the digital age! Nikon camera owners now have FULL metering functionality on ALL Nikon digital SLR camera bodies along with highly accurate focus confirmation and transfer of lens information to digital file EXIF data. At last — classic Nikkor lenses from 1959 to the present interoperate with Nikon digital SLRs from consumer to professional level.

Legacy2digital benefits:

• Take FULL advantage of the millions of Nikon manual focus lenses manufactured since 1959 on your digital Nikon DSLR.
• We modify older pre-AI lenses for safe mounting
• Full metering compatibility, spot, matrix, and center-weighted with ALL Nikon digital SLRs, including D40-60, D70-90, and D3000/3100, D5000/5100, and others.
• Eliminate need for cumbersome lens database on prosumer (D7000 and higher) and pro level bodies. Camera instantly “recognizes” the lens and imprints EXIF data.
• Allows use of all exposure modes — A, S, P, or M — with ALL Nikon DSLR bodies
• Fast handling of F-stop changes using using your camera’s Command Dial.
• Pro CPU allows direct aperture input for “classic style” shooting with any prosumer or pro body (must have aperture input tab).
• Automatic indexing: when lens is mounted, camera will immediately register minimum and maximum aperture.
• Precise, customizable auto focus selection point and indication. User customizable!
• Backward compatibility: converted lenses continue to function normally on older film Nikon cameras.