d60 with old lenses

[AHarvey]

A friend at work has suggested that I look at gettin and adapter and buying some old film SLR lenses off an auction site.

It's a cheap way of getting some decent glass and I really don't mind manually focusing!

anyone have any experience of this?

What adapters should I be looking at and what older lenses?

 

[AHarvey]

Thanks for all the replies.

Am i correct that light metering is purely the camera/lens judging how much light to let into the camera and whether to change the exposure settings?

I am all up for doing everything manually as I feel it really is the best way to learn.

On a different note, and to save starting a new thread, my brother had a play with my camera and now, everytime I view an image that has just been taken or is saved on the sd card i get a info panel over it telling me exif info.

Anyone know how to turn it off?

 

[AHarvey]

Yep.

Thanks

Press the d-pad up/down.

Thanks again! I knew it would be something completely stupid and once i did it I remembered having done it before


Thanks for all the advice everyone. Can someone suggest a decent lens for wildlife/macro shots that I can go and search for?

Being a beginner I am just learning about lenses etc and don't want to waste a few hundred quid on something that won't work!

EDIT: found a NIKON NIKKOR 50mm f1.8 AI for sale online, currently at £15. i take it this would work ok?