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Nikon mounts

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Nikon mounts

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Now another popular mount is a Nikon F mount, as the name implies this is the type of mount used on Nikon Still and DSLR video cameras. It's a amount that's been around for a long time, so if you're coming from a photo background or if one of your parents shot a lot of stills on a Nikon camera in the 70s or 80s, there's a decent chance that you have some old Nikon glass around, that could be used on F-Mount cameras of today. And not just F-Mount cameras, if you get an adapter mount, you can use it on a bunch of other types of cameras, just like this Canon 7D right here. The Nikon F-mounts look a little similar to PL-mounts, only they have three phalanges instead of four. The phalanges are these little clover leaf designs. I like to think of them as the Nikon F-mount being a three-leaf clover. And the PL-mounts as four-leaf clovers, because you're lucky if you have the budget to afford a set of PL-mount lenses. Some of the most common video capable DSLRs that use Nikon F-mounts are the…

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