I recently bought the Nikon Z6 mirrorless camera. I wanted another full frame camera and I wanted one with better high ISO noise performance than my Nikon D810.

One of the main reasons I wanted the Z6 is for night photography. And for night photography I mainly use the Rokinon 14m f/2.8 and Rokinon 24mm f/1.4 lenses.

So naturally I wanted to test compatibility. After installing the latest firmware for the FTZ adapter, I attached the Rokinon 14mm, since that’s the lens I use the most for night photography.

Much to my disappointment, there seemed to be problem. The aperture setting would bounce around, the view screen would flash, clicking noises were made. Hmmmm……

The Rokinon 24mm lens, however, seems to work just fine with the FTZ adapter.

So I got on the Google machine and found out that this is a common problem for this combination. And that so far, Nikon hasn’t addressed it with a firmware upgrade.

But all was not lost. Thanks to the forums I visited, I found a couple of work arounds.

The first involved placing a piece of tape over a particular contact on the lens. This has the affect of fooling the camera into thinking it’s a non-CPU lens. This also requires manually setting the aperture via the aperture ring. Not a big deal since I grew up (photographically) doing just this.

I’m not sure I like the idea of taping over a contact. Doing that might result with a stray piece of tape inside the camera body. Plus the adhesive might cause a mess. But there are some kinds of tape I used back in my electronic technician days that would probably do the job with a minimum of risk.

The other suggestion was to slightly dismount the lens. This has the affect of moving the offending contact off its mark and basically achieving the same result as the tape.

This seems to work quite well. The lens fits tightly on the FTZ adapter, so I don’t really worry about it falling off. This solution is probably the one I’ll use, especially since I’ll also be using my D810 and don’t want to deal with using tape for one camera but not the other. The best option is for Nikon to support the Rokinon/Samyang 14mm f/2.8 on the FTZ adapter.