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Hi - I'm looking for the Konica accessory terminal / accessory cable switch pinouts. The Konica FT-1 Accessory Terminal would be where the PC terminal would be in other camera brands such as Nikon and Canon. The accessory cable switch pins would look like enclosed pic. Does anybody have the pinouts info?

 

TIA

-Van

 

Thanks everyone for your responses. Randy, sounded like your eBay route is the cheapest and easiest for me to look into.

 

-V

I have a Nikon F4 "P" split-screen focusing screen and was wondering if anyone

modify this screen or something similiar to it to be useable on the D80 for

manual focusing purposes.

 

I'm already aware of the Katz Eye focusing screen and am not interested in

forking out almost $200 for this screen.

They are comparable in quality and performance. The D version supposed to help with flash exposures, although I personally did not see any exposure differences when I compared the two years ago. The used non-D version is cheaper, I would consider getting that one.

It appears that the D version does have the notorious oil problem. There are a couple eBay listings right now mentioning oil problems with 35mm AF-D f/2.

 

I have seen others listings mentioned it the past also on eBay.

Bought mine a long time ago and no sticky or oily blades problems. I personally have not encountered the above problems with the samples I seen from stores. Small, light, & razor sharp lens w/beautiful colors, BTW. It's my normal lens now and one of my favorites. Back when film cameras were king, this lens was perceived "boring" by many and you couldn't even give this lens away. Now, it's a red hot item thanks to the 1.5X crop factor of digicams. Wish Nikon put out a f/1.4 or f/1.2 version.

I, too, decided on the D80 over the D200. For me, it's the lighter weight, better noise performance, and less $$ spent, compared to the D200, that won me over. I can do histograms and get pretty good with manual metering with my AI-S lenses, so no in-body metering with AI-S lenses is not a big drawback for me. So far, I'm very happy with it.

Hagay - I think you have a good point here. I've wondered about this in the past. I guess since this is not a variable focal length zoom lens, so they don't use the variable aperture labeling - maybe an industry marketing practice? But, I agree with you, they should label the aperture (or aperture range, for that matter) according to what the camera body actually sees so that the buyer knows exactly what they're buying.

Don't have the AI version, so can't compare. My AF version's bokeh is very nice, though, razor sharp, too. Hey - the once ignored 35/f2 is now making a big comeback in the digital era and is now the new "normal" lens due its effective 52mm focal length in digicams. Wish Nikon makes an AF version of their sharp and fast 35/f1.4 AIS lens.

Nice job Elliot. Very interesting. Looking at the comparative pictures, it appears that the D200, the most expensive one, over-exposed on almost all of the pictures. The D80 - no over-exposures at all that I can see. Personally, I think that's ironic for a $1500 camera, and I don't blame you for getting rid to one of your D200. It's the side-by-side comparision like this that I found very helpful, not the emotionally-charged camera-bashing rants (w/no first-hand comparative photographic evidence to back them up) that I have read all over photo.net.

These are really 2 different lenses w/different focal lengths. They were designed to do different things - it just that they were both also designed to focus in very close. If you have a digicam, the 60mm now is a virtual 90mm, a nice portrait lens, with the ability to focus in very close for more close-up portraits. I can think of many situations where space and obstacles are issues that a 60mm will be more appropriate than other focal lengths for this application. In addition, the 60mm is a well-known razor sharp lens that can take sharp pictures that many zooms can't - a good thing to have for many other applications.

 

Unless u think your photography will be strictly macro, I would hang on to the 60m. Your interchangeable lens SLR camera is only as versatile as the lens(es) you have.