Rinze - I have friends who are saying the same thing. Being Nikon-heads like they are, they were extremely pissed off that Nikon came up with a lensmount that has varying levels of incompatiablity with their older cameras. And their absolute biggest gripe, and I think it's a justified one, was in them taking the aperture ring off. Any chance you can take the lens back and exchange it for something else? -=>Donald