Nikon owners, quick question..

[dbov22]

Hi,

Was out in town today and walked past a number of interesting shops, some of the old school 2nd hand shops, piled high full of junk etc, they had loads of lenses, as did cash converters....

the problem... I have a Nikon Dslr, I would like to know - will ANY Nikon fit lens from any era work - I'm aware the auto focus may not, also the likes of sigma and tamron lenses, they are not badged up as Nikon fit etc and the staff are hopeless and know nothing.... how can I tell whether they will work?

Simple answers please, assume I know nowt about cameras....

Thanks

 

[dbov22]

thanks for all the responses, I particualrly like the idea of just taking the rear lens cap in, the reason i didn't just try it was I didn't have my camera with me, and 80% of the time I won't, just wanted a way of being able to tell there and then....

Mine is the new d3100 so very modern camera... the lenses are more than likely a little bit older, it was more for the lenses made by the likes of tamron, sigma etc...