Nikon ZF manual focus with dumb (non-chipped) manual lenses

[Redlion]

Hoping to get an answer from someone who has the Nikon ZF and uses manual lenses that don't have any electrical contacts like a Laowa or old manual F lenses.

When you manually focus on say a person and the focus tracker box appears over their eye, when you continue to focus, do you get the green (focus confirmation) box on their eye indicating that it is in focus?

I have a number of Laowa lenses (for Sony) and am considering putting a dumb adapter on them and switching to Nikon if the Nikon can give the green focus confirmation when manually focusing them, as my eyes aren't getting any younger.

Thanks!

 

[Jon Schick]

Hoping to get an answer from someone who has the Nikon ZF and uses manual lenses that don't have any electrical contacts like a Laowa or old manual F lenses.

When you manually focus on say a person and the focus tracker box appears over their eye, when you continue to focus, do you get the green (focus confirmation) box on their eye indicating that it is in focus?

I have a number of Laowa lenses (for Sony) and am considering putting a dumb adapter on them and switching to Nikon if the Nikon can give the green focus confirmation when manually focusing them, as my eyes aren't getting any younger.

Thanks!

At least with the settings I'm using....

I'm finding the focus tracker will zero in on a subject (small white tracker box appears) and if you then magnify the image that's the spot that will be magnified.

But I don't get green focus confirmation with dumb lenses - I'm relying on magnification and peaking instead. This is with an Artralab Nonikkor 35mm/1.4 and Brightinstar 50mm/0.95, and if I stop down to make things a bit easier in terms of focus confirmation (eg to f2.8-4), I still don't get the green confirmation box.

 

[Ken Seals]

Sorry, I know you asked about ZF On my Z9 with manual lenses I am having great success just zooming in in the EVF. That's not very useful for any kind of fast action, though.

 

[Gus Ruan]

It will detect eye but will not confirm focus with green box. You’ll need to use focus peaking. Zf will automatically zoom into eye detect box at a push of a button, which is very convenient, and I adjust focus based on clarity. I find the focus peaking obtrusive and sometimes give the impression it’s in focus when it’s not.

Gus