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<p>Thanks for the information on the www.lenscore.org lens sight, I had not seen that before.</p>

<p>DXO Mark has just posted a huge test of most of the different lenses available for the DX model D500 and the FX model D5. And the Nikon lenses didn't win most of the categories. Sigma, Tamron, etc. were supposedly sharper and had better image quality than their Nikon equivalents. This goes against my understanding of lens quality from about the last forty years.</p> <p>Does anyone have any ideas on why this is the case?</p>

<p>I agree with everyone above, sounds like mirror foam to me.</p> <p>That's a nice little kit you got there. The camera strap reminds me of the one I had back in 1976 on my Canon TX. Have fun with it.</p>

<p>I got a chance to play with one, it's a really nice lens, beautiful images and OOF rendering. Pretty heavy though, in weight and cost. So there won't be one in my bag any time soon.</p>

<p>All of the Nikon 1 camera repair in the United States is outsourced to an electronics company in the suburbs of Chicago. They do good work, but it was surprising when I found that out.</p>

<p>Also, the threads on those battery covers are very fine, and I've seen them get cross threaded many times. Which can kind of jam the cover on there pretty tight. Also, what Bob said about corrosion can make them pretty tight as well.</p>

<p>Helen,<br> Does the camera include the Canon warranty, or an Adorama warranty. I've seen open box cameras at some of your competitors that list a store warranty, which I assume is in place of the manufacturers warranty, when the camera is an "open box".<br> Thanks,<br> -Tim</p>

<p>I have the Canon FD 50mm f1.8 S.C. and 50mm f1.4 S.S.C. lenses and had the 50mm f1.2L lens, and I do find the 50mm f1.4 S.S.C. to be slightly better than the f1.8 version, but not drastically, and found the 50mm f1.2L to be slightly better than the f1.4 version, but not better enough to justify the cost difference. And all three lenses were either bought brand new, or overhauled by Ken in California, so they were all to factory spec.</p> <p>I think if you pick up a 50mm f1.4 S.S.C. or New FD version, you should be good to go in the 50mm focal length range.</p>

<p>I don't know about the D750, but I use manual focus lenses on my D700 and find it pretty easy to focus, even with my 50mm f1.2 AIS lens. I've got one of those Nikon DK-17M eyepieces, and that helps, but I find the D700 much easier to manual focus than my D4 or my old D100.</p>

<p>Agree with everything stated above. With an SLR, if the camera is adjusted properly, whatever you see in the viewfinder will be what the film sees. So even if the lens "Overstrokes", what you see in the viewfinder is what you're gonna get on the film.</p>

<p>Ken does excellent work, he did my NEW F-1, and three lenses. Highly recommend.</p>

<p>Those NPC backs were big back in the 1980's. I remember seeing them for different SLR's and in particular Hasselblads. Always thought the image looked funny, on one corner of the big Polaroid sheet.</p>

<p>Got to play with one of those on a D5 last week, doing some portraits. WOW, what a sweet lens. Way out of my price range, but very nice.</p>

<p>Got a chance to play with a 105 from a Nikon Rep this past week. Really sweet lens. Shame it's out of my price range right now.</p>

<p>Looks like a shutter issue, also possibly some of the light sealing foam around the back door may be decayed and letting light leak in.</p> <p>If you're in the States, might want to talk to Ken O. in California, he's the expert on those cameras. Sorry, I don't have his contact info handy.</p>

<p>Yeah, I agree with Andrew. I've got a D4, which is the same sensor, and I've never had problems like that with RAW files.</p> <p>Glad you got it sorted. That Df is a nice camera.</p>

<p>Where'd you get that cool accessory shoe level? Gotta get me one of those.<br> It's one of those things that my wife would ask, "What do you need that for."<br> And I'd answer, "I don't know, but it's cool!"</p>

<p>That Motor Drive MF was a monster, but reliable as hell. Never let me down after years of use.</p>

<p>Yeah, that price is weird. It's the price B&H is selling refurbished D750's for. </p>

<p>Sandy, I use a round cake pan on my desktop and have a bathroom near my office. I walk to the bathroom to change chemicals, or do rinse water, then bring the stainless steel developing tank back to my office for the 10 minutes of development and agitation, and ten minutes of fixing and agitation. All the while keeping the stainless steel tank in the cake pan (which is teflon coated, so very easy to clean up spills) on the desktop.</p>

<p>I agree with Wouter, no need for a darkroom if you're doing B&W. Closed down my darkroom in 2001, but have continued with B&W. It helps to have a scanner, as it's impossible to print without the darkroom, but processing the film is so easy that I now do it at my desk while I'm working on the computer.</p>

<p>Henry, should have posted this on April 1st.</p> <p>;-)</p>

<p>Walter, hope you're feeling better. Ignore this if you've already tried it, but you know you have to push the little button on the aperture ring "in" to take the aperture ring off the "A" setting, right? At least that's how all my FD lenses have always worked.</p>

<p>Jeff, really like what you did with that guitar player in blue. Very nice.</p>

<p>Nikon D5, Nikon D4S, Nikon D4, Nikon D3S, Nikon D3, those are the Pro-Full Frame DSLR's Nikon has made over the years.</p>