nikon 4s back question

<p>i've yet to put batteries in the back for my f4s ~ any real advantages or usefulness to all the gizmodic features?</p>

<p>I found the between frames date imprinting quite useful (or you can imprint exposure data between frames). The bracketing function might be useful to you if you shoot critical slide exposures.</p>

<p>Having said that, the MF-23 Multi-Control Back has got to be one of the most user unfriendly accessories that Nikon has ever made, before or since. The instruction manual requires an instruction manual to make sense of the instruction manual. Whoever wrote that poor excuse of a user manual must have been overindulging in the saké. :-)</p>

<p>My N8008s and N90s bodies have data backs. I tried to learn to use them when I first got the cameras but there's not much you can figure out just by playing around with them. I downloaded the manuals but never retained much of how to use them.</p>

<p>If they offered exposure data imprint between frames I would definitely use that....but they don't. so they don't get used.</p>

<p>No less a personage than Alfred, Lord Tennyson, described the MF-23 manual thus:</p><p>O ay, it is but twenty pages long,<br>

But every page having an ample marge,<br>

And every marge enclosing in the midst<br>

A square of text that looks a little blot,<br>

The text no larger than the limbs of fleas;<br>

And every square of text an awful charm,<br>

Writ in a language that has long gone by.<br>

So long, that mountains have arisen since<br>

With cities on their flanks—thou read the book!<br>

And every margin scribbled, crost, and crammed<br>

With comment, densest condensation, hard<br>

To mind and eye; but the long sleepless nights<br>

Of my long life have made it easy to me.<br>

And none can read the text, not even I;<br>

And none can read the comment but myself.</p>

<p>agree with les..... i have the manual and really, will probably never use the imprinting or the timed interval shooting ~ although in a few circumstances that could be pretty cool one frame a second, minute, hour whatever....<br>

don't need to program in the exif data ~my eyes are too shot to read that tiny stuff in between frames...</p>

<p>just might have to get some batteries and play with it</p>

 

<p>Had one and sold it. Never could remember what button did what. Have one on a N-90S which is much easier for me, but would not buy another one.</p>