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Are flashes and lenses from SLR cameras compatible with Digital cameras?

I have a Nikon SLR (film) camera which I do not use anymore. I want to buy a Digital camera and I am wondering if the extra flashes and lenses (zoom,portrait,etc…), from my original camera, could be used with a Digital camera. Or do I have to purchase “digital” accessories?

Old flashes can fry the electrics in DSLRs. DSLRs can only bear trigger voltages of around 10v and some old flashes can give a 400v kick, that can prove fatal to digital cameras.
Check this list before you try….

http://www.botzilla.com/photo/strobeVolts.html

As to lenses, there is a chart here that may help….

http://www.nikonians.org/nikon/slr-lens.html

Homemade intervalometer for Nikon D70 (DSLR). Clouds in time-lapse test