mike_halliwell

The D70S, in it's time, was a nice camera. It became the body of choice for British Road Speeding Cameras! However, the price of a new charger was probably worth more than the camera. It's not viable to get it fixed, but if you're handy with a small screwdriver, have a look inside, just be very wary about the flash capacitor. This gives you a teardown for IR conversion... https://www.lifepixel.com/tutorials/infrared-diy-tutorials/nikon-d70-d70s

An extra 12 or so megapixels isn't going to make much difference. Just because one Lemming jumped off a cliff, doesn't mean anyone else should..... 😉 Now, a 60MPix DX sensor, that's another, all-be-it unlikely, story.

How did it go?

i have no 'shutter sound' set on my Z8, but I can hear the aperture shut down and reopen, but only 'cos it's right next to my head. I guess with the lens wide open it would be silent.

Then it's no longer a DSLR in that state is it? 😂 I think the D780 was the last iteration of mirrored bodies and was the closest to mirrorless behaviour in LV. I don't know if it had Phase Detect in LV?

DLSRs are, by definition, noisy. Mirror and Shutter, sure. Not sure about mirror slap though. The photographer complained about their own camera noise? Eh? That's a new one 🙂 Solution....no brainer! Go mirrorless.

Lets call him 'Stripey' ! What happened?

Yes it does! Phase Detect is very poor when it's a long way OOF. A user defined focus limiter would be handy, so maybe MIN > 1m maybe?

It's often my goto combo for wary butterflies @ f13 although you still have to try to be parallel to their wings. DOF v High ISO noise is a delicate balance. I found Auto Area and animal eye AF to work OK on toads. I think the algorhythm just looks for concentric rings. 😉

The red band on it's left leg looks crimped pretty tight. I wonder what the tiny holes are for? Almost look like soldering points on a PCB!

Escaped? And, err, what is it?

Humm, is there a reason the 85MM DX macro is close to real focal length at 1:1?

There's quite a big gap between the Z135mm Plena and the Z400mm 4.5 prime, macro or not! No 180mm, 200mm or 300mm lenses. Z200mm f2? I'm sure it could be a LOT lighter than the old F mount VR models 😉

Very similar to the 300mm PF. What I don't get (!) is that zoom lenses such as the Z100-400mm can have a so much better MDF than the Z400mm 4.5 prime. 1:2.6 v 1:6.3 is significant. Maybe 1:2 ?

What were your VR settings?