patriciomurphy

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There's a saying in spanish "pájaro que comió, voló", (pardon my poor

translation, something like "bird that eats, bird that flights"). this

one did just that,she was eating a thistle flower, finished the meal,

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30 years asking a simple question: where are their sons and daughters

missing since the 1976/83 dictatorship in Argentina ?<div></div>

Thanks a lot to everyone for the responses. I'm aware that bad technique is an issue because I'm new to this kind of photography. I'm getting a Manfrotto 488RC2 Ball Head this week, and am not decided between the 190 (I think it's the Bogen 3001 up there) or the 055, undecide mostly because I don't move around with a car, and the tripod you can carry is always best that the one you left at home because it's heavy... :-)

I'll try again.

And BTW, Walter, the woodpecker shot is amazing. If that's the quality I can get by getting better myself, it's certainly promising. If only the D70 had a proper viewfinder for manual focusing...

Thanks again!

I'm getting blurred images on most of my shots made with the Nikkor

400mm f/3.5 ED-IF + TC-301 2x teleconverter. Just to be sure, I'm

going to perform a series of tests to check if there's nothing wrong

with the TC, but I assume it's just me, my bad technique. I'm using a

Manfrotto 141, which is quite good for support, another thing that

leads me to think it's me.

I would love to get any advice on shooting with such a long focal length.

Thank you very much,

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For just the same reasons that having a D70 I still every now and then go out and shoot with my old Pentax SV or the 120 YashicaMat(from the '60s, and both still working perfectly). Perhaps for the same reason a pianist owning a fantastic keyboard with 1000+ sounds will enjoy playing a Steinway. Simplicity has its charm, and as scott mentioned, it also has its benefits. I'm completely into digital and love technology (btw, good ol' SV is a marvelous piece of technology...) but it's nice to enjoy both worlds. My wish list includes going for the D200 AND a MF camera that I can carry around with me all day. It's a pity my finances will not suffice to get the FM3a, but it would be nﾺ1 in the list...

I know, I know, but I don't want to mention in public a guy who, very kindly, answered an email directed by a stranger (me) to his site.

This is the answer I got from this person, and I insist, it doesn't seem at all inllogical that Nikon corrected the error in subsequent production runs:

"From everything I can tell, at least nine months worth of the original D70 production suffers from using a specific metering part that fails and causes that symptom, but the symptom itself--the blinking green light--is actually a failure signal that's more

generic and can be caused by a wide range of problems (bent pins in the CF slot, metering failure, etc.). If your D70 is recent, I wouldn't worry much, but if it is from that first nine months of production, I'd say that the likelihood you'll eventually see the problem is quite high. Unfortunately, there's nothing you can do about it until you do."

I planned on taking the F601 with me BGLOD or not, just in case, and in order to be able to shoot some landscapes with my 28...

Regards,

Pat

Well, I for one am taking my good ol' F601 with me on my next vacation, along with a Canon Powershot A520 that is quite good, but I must confess that while Nikon apparently will have it fixed in Argentina even if it was bought in the USA it's disturbing to think that it will, sooner or later, fail.

I got an emjail from a VERY reputable source telling me that the first batch story could be true. It makes sense for Nikon to fix it in later production runs rather than having to fix every single D70 for free...

If your budget is $200 per lens, consider spending $400 in one, and wait until you save for the next. The difference between good glass and mediocre glass is amazing. Alternatively, you may want to consider series E lenses, which, despite the construction being rather unimpressive, are quite good in terms of image. Cheap zooms are usually slow and optically mediocre at best. You can get a 28 mm f/2.8 quite cheap, and it will complement very well your 50mm. The 180 that was recommended by Vivek is avery good lens.

I can't find any useful info on the whole web on the issue of BGLOD.

Everyone mentions that it's a fault most likely to affect the first

batch/es, but noone mentions serial numbers for that production run.

Does anybody know something about this? Is there any website where one

can find this kind of info?

I bought a D70 last month, and wonder if it is one of the new ones or

it is likely to suffer BGLOD.

Thank you very much!

Pat

What's interesting is that they if you visit the site you'll find they ask if you're an "extremely talented photographer", then you look at the stock of pictures and most are nothing to write home about... What's the deal here?

I have an AF50 f/1.8 which I manually focus all the time without no problems. But the aperture rign is sort of sticky, which I've seen no mention whatsoever in any forum. I'd say go try it to see how you like the focus feel, compare it with an AIS, take into account how long will it be until you get either a digital or AF body, then decide.