Re: Has anyone used old Nikon manual lenses on their DSLRs?
- From: Dave Head <rally2xs@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 10:30:44 GMT
On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 21:55:26 -0800, The Real Bev <bashley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Dave Head wrote:
>>The Real Bev <bashley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>Dave Head wrote:
>>>
>>>>Get your dog walking toward you under the trees and out into the
>>>>light and the modern autofocus and autoexposure features will follow the
>>>>correct settings nicely. Stuff like that will spoil you if you ever experience
>>>>it.
>>>
>>>Maybe, but I don't like the delay involved. When I want to take the picture, I
>>>mean NOW -- not in 2 seconds.
>>
>> Depends on the camera. My D1x takes the picture NOW, not in 2 sec or even 1/2
>> sec, but immediately. Fastest camera I've ever held in my hands. The
>> autofocus might have a very little delay, if it happens to be at one end of the
>> focus range and you suddenly switch to the other end. You won't do any better
>> manually twisting a focus ring, tho, either.
>>
>>>It would be nice to be able to override
>>>some/most/all of the automatic settings, and I intend to search for that feature
>>>when my current camera needs to be replaced.
>>
>> Can override anything on the D1x, turn off all the auto settings, etc. Its
>> the camera, tho - not whether it is capable of auto-something.
>>
>>>"Infinity" and "1/200 sec" cover a lot of situations.
>>
>> Yep.
>>
>>>I do like autoexposure, though. Once you grow up it's a real pain to read the
>>>damn light meter.
>>
>> Uh huh. And then you want a control to dial in a certain amount of
>> overexposure for beach scenes or the like.
>
>I thought that's what the palm of your hand is for. I can do that on my Nikon
>CP800 but it's a nuisance to try to do it in bright sunlight.
Just need to get good at estimating the differential between what the meter
says and what you know about the relative brightness of the scene, and or do
bracketing and pick the best one.
>
>> Then there's auto-bracketing where
>> the camera will take a properly exposed picture, followed by one that's
>> underexposed by a certain amount (that you can specify) and then one that's
>> overexposed by the same amount.
>
>Too much like hedging bets -- besides, if it takes ONE too slowly...
My camera takes all three of these in less than a second.
>> You have to look around for a high performance camera that you can afford -
>> maybe opting for a used pro camera like the D1x. The D2x is a current model,
>> so the D1x might possibly be had for close to the price of a prosumer digital
>> camera like the D50 or D70.
>
>I've thought about that, but there's a real advantage to smallness and
>lightness. Friend has a beautiful D20 (I think) -- the $1.2K+ one and a few
>extra lenses, but I just don't want to lug around that much stuff any more.
>Everything is a tradeoff...
I hear ya on that one - I _didn't_ take the D1x into the wilderness on my
camping / canoeing / fishing vacation last month because the camera, 2 lenses,
and a really lightweight tripod was _still_ too darn heavy to be lugging over
portages between lakes. I figure to get a point and shoot with a big zoom lens
and large pixel count for something like that, eventually. Meanwhile, the D1x
is for places I can get to with it being hauled by my vehicle.
Dave Head
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