AntonioC

From one extreme to the other... F5 + M4

 

Hi all,

 

I've just got this nice little printer, which I love 90% of the times.

In some images, though, I think I could get a better accordance with my monitor

using a dedicated ICC profile.

 

 

Alas, it wasn't supplied, nor it is possible to find it anywhere on the web.

Has any of you had the opportunity to get a good ICC for this printer?

Thanks a lot for any info.

 

 

Best regards

After reading Bob's article about fisheyes for Canon, I decided for the zenitar, and couldn't be

happier. Cheap, optically very decent, and with such huge FOV you really don't need af. I

don't find a fisheye useless on a 1.6 camera, actually it gives very a appealing distortion

without getting soon boring as a "real" FE.<br> Just for <a href="http://www.photo.net/

photodb/photo?photo_id=4384112">example</a>.<br>

 

cheers

Well,

 

considering the recent wave of ratings, I must have become a much worse photographer after the new interface has been adopted. Last week I was quite surprised, now it's ok for me. "3" rulez! ! !

 

ciao!

I have this exact combo (35 f/2 + 50 f/1.4) on a DRebel XT. The 32 is tiny, light, and very usable (on a 1.6 it has nearly the same FOV of a 50mm, what's boring in that?). Used it for portraits, landcapes, close-ups and so. It's very sharp at midrange and close focusing distances, not so much wide open at infinite).

The 50 1.4 (on a 1.6 camera) makes for an excellent portrait/available light lens. Not wonderful at 1.4 (who cares, given the shallow DOF), but at f/2 it shines. Definitely better than the 35 f/2.

Nice combo IMHO

<img src="http://d6d2h4gfvy8t8.cloudfront.net/2637793-md.jpg">

Don't overlook the Nikkormats, they're lovely bodies, heavy, all-metal, built-like-a-tank, with mirror lock-up and ability to use pre-ai/ai/ais lenses. Af lenses will do if "modified" as above.<br>

Here's my FT2, which I got dirt cheap, and really is a joy to use (nice additional feature is the meter window on the top plate, for shooting from the hip). <br>

<img src="http://www.photo.net/users/Carrus/DSC_6120IV.jpg"><br>

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BTW, FT and FTn are beautiful too, but they use the old, hard to find, mercury batteries.<br>

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Ciao!

Thank you very much for your inputs.<br>

It seems to be a relatively late unit,O C nr. 851xxx, so it should be a '74 lens, and optical performance is really OK.<br>

What to say, I'm *quite* happy (I'm going to keep it like this, not even interested in the ai conversion).<br>

Thanks again!<br><br>

 

Antonio

eheheh... <br>

Actually the question was not so clear (not that I'm clear usually).<br>

I'm going to keep it, of course, I was just curios to know if someone else ever had the same problem, and what can be the limits of such a defect, since I wasn't able to detect them, and there's no way to have a sunny day here in this period.<br>

Or maybe the lens will self-destroy in two weeks, I dunno.<br>

Anyway, you're right ;-)<br>

BTW, thanks Arnab<br>

Forgot to say, the shot was at full aperture.

Hi everybody,

 

I came across this lens, an O-Nikkor 35mm f/2, since I needed a

moderately fast mf lens for my Nikkormat.<br>

It is *nearly* perfect, but for a rainbow-like effect on the borders

of an inner element.<br>

Front view is visible in <a

href="http://www.photo.net/users/Carrus/DSC_6118.jpg">this</a> image.

Actually, it is transparent when seen across. I think it's some kind

of de-cementing.<br>

I was rather skeptical when I first tried to check it with a D100,

but the first <a

href="http://www.photo.net/users/Carrus/DSC_6113.jpg">test shot</a>

was not so flawed, at least it seems so to me (I'm speaking of the

full resolution image).<br>

I think the real test will be in high-contrast, sunny, backlit

images, but hope it will be usable in black and white (which is all I

need by this lens), maybe with some additional "Nikon glow" :-)

What is it, in your opinion?<br> Should I just throw it away?<br>

BTW, I paid 25$ for it.<br>

Cheers,<br>

<br>

Antonio

Hi Diego,

 

it's a lovely little camera, with a terrific lens, durable construction and perfect meter.

Also, the flash is a non-issue IMHO, you can disable auto-flash via custom functions (you NEED a manual to modify them, it's a mess!).

I sold mine one month ago for 350euros, 450 is a bit on the high side.

Cheers!

Just a Nikkormat FT2, D100, 50 f/1.8, 35 2.8

Shoot in raw (NEF), then open your image in Capture.

Under the "advanced raw" tab, switch between sRGB and Adobe 1998 RGB, you'll see the lost details in the reds re-appear.

 

 

Cheers

Sorry,

 

I just noted two other people posted the same argument while I was writing.

That's interesting. I don't know if it's a temporary bug, or a

permanent decision, but I'm curious to see if it will limit someway

cliques activity and revenge rating (at least for a few hours). Cheers

Suggestion: 1$ donation just for comments/ratings. Just to avoid bogus accounts via credit card authentication.

Well,

 

even if an unmotivated very bad rating can be disturbing, low-raters-by-default actually don't understand that doing their game they actually make your photos more visible, which is *good*.<br>

After all, they work the same way cliques do...<br>

Ciao!

Usually I can upload one. After that, every attempt to load another one or to edit it results in that error.<br>

Sometimes, I have to wait hours for another successful attempt.<br>

GPRS is a connection through mobile telephone, the one I'm using from home (the faster evolution of GSM).<br>

thanks

I'm having big troubles in uploading pictures to my folders.

Whenever I've loaded one, I can't get to load another one (or edit),

at the end of the process (when it should redirect to the "add another

photo" page) I keep getting the usual (for me) message "The requested

URL cannot be accessed due to a system error on this server".

Photos are in the 150-170Kb range (30-40 after recompression here),

saved with "Save for the web" command in Photoshop CS. MOzilla or IE6

it's the same.

I'm connected via GPRS, maybe this is the problem?

Please help, it's really getting on my nerves lately (=in the last

months).

It's happening to me also, for no apparent reason, but it's true for every jpeg in every site, not just PN. At least in my case.

I second the suggestion dor a user FM or FM2.

Personally, I've just bought a (really nice) Nikkormat FT2, and it really seems it's built to last forever. Also cheaper than a FM (but better built). Cheers

I don't have any resource other than the manual. What's so obscure about it? Alas, it's difficult to find any online resource about this little gem of a camera.

Regards

Because it uses an elecronic shutter, beyond the mechanical one, as a poster already suggested.

Basically, it powers the CCD for shorter intervals than the mechanical synchro (while the shutter is open).

Brilliant!

If you are able to upload custom curves it means you have NkCapture and Camera Control. Basically, you've got all you need to use nef, you can work with them in Capture and save in Tif or Jpeg. Or did I miss something?