Can I choose between the camera’s AF motor and the lens motor on a Nikon D7000?
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I’m using a Nikon D7000 with an 18-105mm lens. Both the camera body and some Nikon lenses can autofocus using a motor, so I’m wondering whether I can choose which motor is used for autofocus. Do the focus mode switches on the camera and lens affect this, and is there any benefit to using one motor over the other?
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Nikon lenses with integrated autofocus motor doesn't have the old AF connection, so they'll only focus using their internal motors.
Unlike the AF-S and AF-I lenses which have an integrated AF motor, the older AF lenses have a screw connection which will be coupled with a screwdriver on the camera's lens mount.
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No. On Nikon DSLRs, which autofocus motor is used depends on the lens design, not a camera setting.
Your 18-105mm is an AF-S lens, which has its own built-in focus motor. With AF-S or AF-I lenses, the camera’s in-body motor is not used.
Older Nikon AF/AF-D lenses do not have a motor in the lens, so they autofocus using the camera body’s screw-drive motor instead.
So you cannot switch between body motor and lens motor on the same lens. The AF/M switches on the camera or lens only control whether autofocus is enabled, not which motor gets used.
There’s generally no “advantage” to switching, because there is nothing to switch: each compatible lens is designed to use one system or the other.
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