>>3980266Thanks for typing all this shit so I don't have to.
I almost found this out the hard way, but I borrowed a friend's D3500 before buying one. Lo and behold, the Nikon glass I was using with an $8 EF adapter was almost useless on the Nikon. You can use manual glass with those lower-end bodies, but you're stuck in full manual mode, and there's no automatic metering. Imagine having less flexibility on a camera with a native mount than an adapted mount to a competitor's brand... Bullshit.
On any EF body I've ever used, all shooting modes work, no matter what is on the end of the camera. All Canon (and most 3rd party) EF glass dating back to the earliest models always works, even on budget bodies, with AF and EXIF.
The reason that old F-mount glass is cheaper than EF glass is because Nikon has been hobbling their cameras to sell new lenses.
Anyway, here's a picture I took with a T1i and a $100 lens. The T2i has a much better sensor.
