Having converted 24mm, 35mm and 105mm Nikkors lenses to AI, I've been itching to try them out to see how they perform on full frame digital. There's some stuff on the internet that suggested they would be nice and sharp and my initial findings confirm that.
I suppose I should compare them against newer prime Nikkors to see how they measure up but that's for the future. For now, I can say that I'm more than happy to pair the old lenses with the D700, particularly the 24mm.
I wasn't sure if they would meter on the D700 and was expecting to have to estimate the exposure and check it on the LCD screen. The good news is that they work perfectly in aperture priority auto. Obviously there's no way to control the aperture from the camera but I can still use the wheel just aft of the shutter release to dial in some exposure compensation so the whole thing works quickly and intuitively.
There are a few pics below from a trip we had to Montrose earlier today. The first four were shot with the 105 with 100 percent crops and the rest were with the 24mm. These are all from raw files but little was done in post processing apart from a little work in Silver Efex Pro 2 and no sharpening was applied.
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