Issues with F100 and AF-D lenses.

fotoobscura · Mar 29, 2019

I bought an auto lens for my (normally manually used) F100. I put it in, cranked it to the smallest aperture, and received fEE on the screen in A mode. I read up on Rockwell and in the F100 manual that these lenses should work fine with this camera (in all modes). I then dug deeper and I found out I had to modify the custom menu 22 to 1 in order to control the aperture with the dial. I did this failing anything else to do and the fEE went away but I cannot use the command dial to adjust aperture. It's stuck on 2.8 no matter what I do. The command dial doesn't do a single thing. Focus works fine.

Is this normal behavior? Am I missing something? It's the same behavior on two AF-D lenses I've tried. There are numerous posts on the internet about people having this issue but nobody seems to have figured out a solution other than, 'buy another camera'. I doubt all of these people's cameras are broken so trying to figure out what's going on.

Thanks

ic-racer · Mar 29, 2019

My AF-D lenses are all older designs from the same era as the F100 and work fine. That is 50/1.8 AF-D and 35/2 AF-D that I own. I have not had to change custom menu for them to work.

ic-racer · Mar 29, 2019

nobody seems to have figured out a solution

If your camera is broken the fix is to get a new aperture index ring, I think it is a common problem that seems pretty easy to figure out.

fotoobscura · Mar 29, 2019

Turns out the AI tab was broken off, presumably by someone that tried to put a non-AI lens on it. It's manual forever.

fotoobscura · Mar 29, 2019

ic-racer said:
If your camera is broken the fix is to get a new aperture index ring, I think it is a common problem that seems pretty easy to figure out.
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Interesting- now where you source those parts..

gorbas · Mar 29, 2019

I found it on Ebay. There was lengthy thread about F100 and that ring here, back in the day. Nikon Canada asked for some ridiculous amount to fix it, something like $350, 5 or so years ago. My regular camera tech could not do it. Then I found frendly Nikon service and they replaced it in less than 10 minutes. It's shame how cheaply Nikon designed that ring. Probably, for 0.53$ more they could install proper metal ring with button to disengage tab for non Ai lenses

fotoobscura · Mar 29, 2019

gorbas said:
I found it on Ebay. There was lengthy thread about F100 and that ring here, back in the day. Nikon Canada asked for some ridiculous amount to fix it, something like $350, 5 or so years ago. My regular camera tech could not do it. Then I found frendly Nikon service and they replaced it in less than 10 minutes. It's shame how cheaply Nikon designed that ring. Probably, for 0.53$ more they could install proper metal ring with button to disengage tab for non Ai lenses

Very much thanks for this! Looks like PN 1B610-059- Wonder if you need all three parts in the above pic to put it back together.

gorbas · Mar 29, 2019

fotoobscura said:
PN 1B610-059

I bought just that one part. It was something like $20 .After installation it has to be calibrated and that is reason why my regular tech could not do it. Other Achilles heel of F100 are plastic teeth of back door. Again wrong material was used. They are now super hard to find. Other that that, amazing camera!

fotoobscura · Mar 29, 2019

gorbas said:
I bought just that one part. It was something like $20 .After installation it has to be calibrated and that is reason why my regular tech could not do it. Other Achilles heel of F100 are plastic teeth of back door. Again wrong material was used. They are now super hard to find. Other that that, amazing camera!

I have a non-stop hour searching for this part all over the internet to no avail

I'm thinking I'm going to have to buy a parts F100 just to get this piece off.

gorbas · Mar 29, 2019

Be sure that those two parts (Ai ring and teeth on the back door) are intact

Issues with F100 and AF-D lenses.

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