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<p>Lil<br>

Can you post a pic of this difuser made from a milk jug and how it fits on the camera.</p>

<p>Ian R</p>

<p>Randy did you take any photos of the lens before you sent it in for repiar which would prove that there was no external damage to the lens piror to sending it in for repiar. For a repiar tech to say it had suffered impact damage without takeing it apart there must have been something obvious on the outside E.G. damage to the filter threads.</p>

<p>Ian R </p>

<p>Lindsay<br>

Comeing from Nikon film SLR to DSLR Ihad to make the same sort of decisions last year after checking on this forum and also in some of the gallery's at some of the users images .I phurchased a D40 because the ergonomics of the body felt right for me and my wife this camera with its 6mb sensor produces great images in print up to about 12x10 (never tried anything larger) I phurchased the stdandard 18-55 and 55-200 kit lenses with the camera. These lenses are great most of the time (limations in low light) and the total kit weight about 1Kg or 2.2 lbs total weight is less than the 70-200 f2.8 lens so my advice is go in to a camera store and try holding whatever combinations of body and lens you are thinking about.</p>

<p>Ian R</p>

<p>Douglas as you do not say what camera you are useing I just had a quick look at KEH and for 3rd party af zoom in the 70-210 range start at about $25 for the screwdriver AF type in the f4-5.6 range. And the manual lenses start from around $10 costs + any S & H.</p>

<p>Ian R</p>

<p>Brien</p>

<p>Nice dog ! What is your first impression of the lens mine is that it is going to be a nice keeper .</p>

<p>Ian</p>

<p>I also picked up my copy of of the 35mm f1.8 this evening first impresions of the lens is that it is chunkyer than the 50mm1.8 d attached is the first image</p><div></div>

<p> While in my local camera store this afternoon I enquired about the new 35 mm 1.8 lens as I have 1 on order a BD present. I was informed that the lens is expected delivery date is March 12 just thought I would share the information.</p>

<p>Ian R</p>

<p>I have a different issue with NX2 the thumbnails of the images on my drive get mixed up the thumbnail shows a different image to that which opens when clicked on in windows the thumbnails show correctly and the file name in NX coresponds to the file that opens. But other than that it works great also this problem happens with both NEF and JPG files and on more than 1 computer.</p>

<p>Ian R</p>

<p>As Matt said the high end items that are assembled in Japan seem to be the high price low turnover items and as such they would have less automated assembley than the higher volume items like the D300 this is also the reason for the large price gaps between the consumer and pro grade lenses.</p>

<p>Ian R</p>

<p>well it is still wednesday here in Alberta and we have broken 100 posts on this link this one was taken with a coolpix Temp in the -20C range after getting yet another dump of Snow this one is clearing the drive yet it seems to pale when looking at other people's work whish look great.keep it up.</p><div></div>

<p>Thanks for all the responses now I know what lenses to look for to work with all my bodies or get the screw type AF lenses and man focus on my D40</p>

<p>Ian R</p>

 

<p>Dieter What I am looking for are AF-S lenses that will work in full manual mode on bodies like the FM or EM</p>

<p>Ian R</p>

<p>My question to all you lens experts is are any of the lenses with the built in motor which AF on the D40/D60 also compatable with the older non electronic film bodies.<br>

ie. do any of these lenses have apture rings on them if so what would be the the designation</p>

<p>Ian R</p>

<p>Great shots everybody with so much snow about ,Tried out a still life no flash useing a halagon desk lamp and the 50mm 1.8 lens on my D40 also tried out a Grollia pod apture was set at f6.3 1/4 sec iso 400</p><div></div>

<p>Will as Peter said mm is mm and do not change with FX or DX lenses so while checking out the venue use the 70-200 settings on your lens.</p>

<p>Ian R</p>

<p>I use the Lexar cards in my D40 of both 2gb and 4gb size's and use the built in card reader on my laptop to transfer the images and the transfer rate is between 500mb and 1gb per min.</p>

<p>Ian R</p>

<p>Rene<br>

I found this thread <a href="http://www.photo.net/canon-fd-camera-forum/00OBG2">http://www.photo.net/canon-fd-camera-forum/00OBG2</a></p>

<p>Ian R</p>

This is a question that is asked a lot and the size of the projected image onto the sensor / film is controled by the focal length of the lens the design of the lens dictates the size of the projected image circle so if you used the same focal length on any camer be it a 10x8, 5x4, 21/4sq (6x6) 35mm or any other format the size of the image would be the same.ie a bottle of JD taken with the same focal length lens would be the same size and with each larger format you would get a larger field of view so the crop factor is on the field of view giveing a apperant telephoto effect.

 

Ian R

<p>no they will not meter and also no autofofus</p>

<p>My EM I have had it since new cost in the Region of 100 pounds uk back in the early 1980's checked it recently and needs refoaming around the mirror when I checked mine Ian the side foams only reacr about half way down the sides of the screen.<br>

Ps Ian where did you get the foam kit.<br>

Ian R</p>

<p>Only the focus confirm light.<br>

Ian R</p>

<p>I use the 50 e series lens on my D40 dont have any problems with focusing.Use a old Weston master 5 light meter to account for lack of internal metering but I do find that the colour's are different from my kit 18-55 lens no complaints about it<br>

Ian R</p>

<p>According to the specs it should sync at 250 check this link <a href="http://www.mir.com.my/rb/photography/companies/nikon/htmls/models/specroom98/f100/f100spec.htm">http://www.mir.com.my/rb/photography/companies/nikon/htmls/models/specroom98/f100/f100spec.htm</a></p>

<p>the lens's will be the non VR ones but it still looks like great Value Possibly one left over from the Boxing day specials<br>

Ian R</p>

<p>on my D40 kit lens the 18-55 Mk11 which is a non VR it uses the HB-45 which is attached the same way as in Will's photo works like a dream</p>