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It's still usable. The issues are a 'joystick' button that's gone sloppy with no positive tactile click or return-to-centre springiness. Judging from the number of button repair kits available online, it's a fairly common fault.

 

More concerning is that the 10 pin socket has popped into the body and is now loose and totally unusable: Thus no remote release and no GPS dongle can be used - bah! This is also a widely reported fault, and one that Nikon refuses to acknowledge as a design/manufacturing fault. Professional repair cost makes it pretty much BER, or you just live with it.

 

The D810 has no such 10 pin socket fragility, apparently.

 

Welcome back to Nikon, BTW. But with hindsight I really don't recommend you go to a much higher pixel count with Nikon DSLRs. The crappy 'sensor-down-a-pit' AF system just isn't accurately aligned enough in most cases, IME, and nearly always has some residual error. While AF fine-tune is just a software fudge that can only compensate at one focal length of a zoom lens.

 

All of which brings you back to using slooooww LiveView for accurate focus; and then a mirrorless body makes much more sense.

Thank you, I missed my Nikon I was looking at the Z series maybe when the used prices go down I would look at one. I worry about going

past 24mp, I had a Sony A7II a few year back and I thought the body was just odd. I notice to the further you go up the mp chain you have

to make sure the lenses can handle it and that's costly.

Hi all,

I alway's like using Metz flashes but was said to hear they stop making them, is that true?

Thanks

As so many people said when it was all they had:

"6MP is good enough for anybody"

 

And basically, that was and is still true

 

Kodak DCS - Wikipedia

Talking about 6 MP's I have a Konica/Minolta Maxxum 7D Digital SLR and it's the coolest DSLR, plus you could use those nice

Minolta lenses.

Hi all,

I was looking around for an Leica M3 or M2 but the prices have gone up sadly ,so I

was about to give up till I found this!

I got a good deal on it, and I put on a Leica 35mm F3.5 Summaron lens and it really nice, so nice when I compared the pictures

to my Nikon SP when I got the film back I just love the color's and contrast of the Leica and Yashica/nicca set-up I sold the Nikon

SP. It has a good feel and heft it's a good camera.

What other glass have you got?

I have the second version of the AF 50mm f1.8 (non-D) and an manual Nikkor 28mm f2.8 it's really good

on digital manual focus and all. I'm not really a lens guy but I'll looking into other glass.

Ah, the seduction of pixel collection!

 

I was looking through my old D700 pix the other day, and thought - "You know what; those aren't half bad. I could live with that, because they're easily better than 35mm film ever was."

 

OK, my D800 was a bit sharper, which then sent me chasing better glassware. And so the cycle continues...

 

But a D3? Clumsy great thing for general use IMO. The neater D700, OTOH, is still a useful tool - and hasn't fallen half apart like my D800.

Your D800 fell apart I'm sorry to hear about that, I had this dream that I was doing a photo shoot and I pulled a D800 out of my bag and said oh this

is nice. Back to the D3 I just never went for the MP race either I think the highest I had was a Sony A7II at 24 mp's it was nice the body was odd but

as long as it focuses sharp and the colors are good I'm happy.

Hi all,

After awhile shooting with a old Canon EOS1DS camera I just missed using a Nikon so

I found a nice D3, yes I know it's older but I popped an AF50mm F1.8 on it and it still holds up

to me there's something about it's quality it's almost film like. I took a few shoots wide open F 1.8

and it looks good. I know some would say hey why didn't you get a "Z" well I'm already invested

in a Leica and a Fuji, so this D3 fill's the SLR gap that was missing.

Hi all,

It's nice to get into a bit of Leica again, here's a test shot

with the lens on the A7II (sorry) will add some with the Yashica YF

camera soon.

Hi all,

Does anyone have experience with new batteries from Watson or Wasabi for the EOS1DS,

I know I could get used original ones but I don't know if they will last.

Thanks

The Summaron is a good lens. The 2.8 is considerably better than the 3.5 wide open, but less easy to find in an LTM mount than the 3.5. Both of these lenses are old so consider the possibility of a CLA in the pricing. Look for haze, element separation, cleaning marks, and smoothness of focusing, and if you find any of these, negotiate the price. If they are very light, they will have minimal effect on the photos, but you may need a hood to minimize their influence. Another alternative, less expensive, is the 35mm/2.5 MC Voigtlander color-skopar, Version 1 (the LTM version), which IMHO produces very similar rendering to the Leica Summarons...perhaps a little sharper with greater contrast stopped down. Its only drawback is if using it also on a digital body in the color mode produces purple edge vignetting wide open (correctable in post processing), but perfectly acceptable in B&W. FWIW I've owned both the Leica Summaron 35/2.8, which was my primary lens for almost 20 years, and currently own the color-skopar. Whatever you choose, enjoy your shooting.

Thank you for the info, it has a hood and I did get him down more because if the seller said light haze in which could be cleaned out if need be,

I've been looking for the 2.8F but the prices the lowest is $1399.00 or so and it's just so crazy prices now it's so bad for us.

I think I found a lens, an Leica 35mm f3.5 Summaron, it's a later model come with caps and a real Leica hood.

Less than $700.00 U.S..

Niccas, some of them anyway, are well made Leica screwmount cameras, muchly based on Leica designs. Some models have features which predated Leica incorporating them. Here's a historical link: Nicca Cameras 1942-1961. I was lucky a few years ago in getting a Nicca Type 5, sold under the Tower 45 label by Sears in 1956, which incorporated the lift up back of the Leica M3, a film advance lever in place of a knob, and 1/1000 sec shutter speed.

My Nicca

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They put an advance lever on there, why didn't Leica do that.

I would like it a lot better if you posted some photos from it.

I have to get a screw mount lenses, so many choices Leica (expensive), Canon and Voigtlander there many others.

Nice find. What can you tell about it?

As a recent member of the leica screw mount club, I should warn you that the price of those lenses are going the wrong way. Even those mostly iffy (but sometimes great) Russian lenses are not as cheap as they used to be.

Still not as bad as M mount lenses, what happen to those prices, someone or some group like Dr. Evil

said we're going to raise prices on all the Leica stuff He,He,!

Hi all,

I found this on ebay this weekend and I'm pretty shocked.

it's a cool Leica copy made by Yashica Nicca. I found a few things

and youtube about it but it's really nice plus I could get lot's of screw

mount lenses for it. If anybody has more info about it let me know.

I agree, it wasn't a class act, ebay annoys me they tell buyers it's a binding contract but Sellers

do what they want.