OffTrail wrote:
The E lenses need to be told to stop down electronically, and unfortunately there's no physical way to stop them down like with the G lenses.
Thanks yeah I just looked at the lenses and realized there is no aperture ring. So those two E lenses would be usable but only wide open; but the G lens works fine? Do any of the Nikon film cameras work with the E lenses?
Desmolicious wrote:
Yeah, I had two F4s as well as the F100 and sold those off even though I really liked them. I decided that the F6 met the ‘pro’ requirement while the N/F80s met the ‘camera you will actually use’ requirement!
I liked the F75 I had but the feature set was just better - without being too much - on the 80 plus the 80 felt like the perfect compromise between build quality and weight.
Nutty thing is the F/N75 often is more expensive now than the 80! The 80 has a bigger and brighter VF, the amazing focus screen, you can set meter patterns no matter what mode you are in - the 75 you had to use custom functions eg I think I had spot set to work with focus lock IIRC - much better dampened shutter, bigger shutter speed range etc.
I’m sure Canon, Minolta, Pentax have equivalents just as good. I just happened to already be in the Nikon ecosystem....Show more →
Oh yeah the N80 is the superior photography tool, I just tend to use mine interchangeably with the N75's. There's room on my shelf for any one of these cameras that I happen across for under $50
lifeandmylens wrote:
Thanks yeah I just looked at the lenses and realized there is no aperture ring. So those two E lenses would be usable but only wide open; but the G lens works fine? Do any of the Nikon film cameras work with the E lenses?
Not a one. The G lens will work just fine on the N80, but even some of the earlier DSLR's are unable to stop the E lenses down.
lifeandmylens wrote:
At the St Louis Contemporary Art Museum. The building and grounds were better than the exhibits. 501CM + Portra 800.
In 2002, my wife had written a paper for her Art History Class about Artemisia Gentileschi's 1613 painting of Judith Beheading Holofernes. She won an award for the paper and found the St. Louis Art Museum was going to have the painting on display. One of my nieces was getting married just outside of Philadelphia and we decided to make a stop on our flight from Portland, Oregon. It was the early years of booking hotel/motel rooms online and my wife found a room in a nice hotel not far from the museum. We landed and took a taxi to the hotel and when we got to the desk to check in, found out that we did indeed have reservations but for the same dates the following year. There was a large convention in town and one of the long time sportscasters had just passed away bringing in even more people. Bottom line was, no room at the inn. We we flummoxed but the woman behind the desk asked if we would mind staying in one of the dorms at Washington University. Being our only choice, we accepted. The taxi delivered us to the recently opened School of Business, which had been designed to accommodate both professors and visitors from a variety of businesses and industries, It was, in short, spectacular. The bonus was, we were within walking distance of the museum. It was great.
My niece had an outdoor wedding at the end of June in S.E. Pennsylvania. This is the height of lightning bug/firefly season. Every time a flash went off, all of the lightning bugs wanted to attract that one and would flash as loog as they could.
It was a memorable trip.
madNbad wrote:
In 2002, my wife had written a paper for her Art History Class about Artemisia Gentileschi's 1613 painting of Judith Beheading Holofernes. She won an award for the paper and found the St. Louis Art Museum was going to have the painting on display. One of my nieces was getting married just outside of Philadelphia and we decided to make a stop on our flight from Portland, Oregon. It was the early years of booking hotel/motel rooms online and my wife found a room in a nice hotel not far from the museum. We landed and took a taxi to the hotel and when we got to the desk to check in, found out that we did indeed have reservations but for the same dates the following year. There was a large convention in town and one of the long time sportscasters had just passed away bringing in even more people. Bottom line was, no room at the inn. We we flummoxed but the woman behind the desk asked if we would mind staying in one of the dorms at Washington University. Being our only choice, we accepted. The taxi delivered us to the recently opened School of Business, which had been designed to accommodate both professors and visitors from a variety of businesses and industries, It was, in short, spectacular. The bonus was, we were within walking distance of the museum. It was great.
My niece had an outdoor wedding at the end of June in S.E. Pennsylvania. This is the height of lightning bug/firefly season. Every time a flash went off, all of the lightning bugs wanted to attract that one and would flash as loog as they could.
It was a memorable trip....Show more →
Desmolicious wrote:
They will always be sticky - use that to your advantage to get a cheeeep price.
N80 arrived - super sticky back. But 10 mins of rubbing alcohol seemed to have fixed it like you said. There’s a faint white residue left.
Aside from the stickiness it is in fantastic condition. The flash works and the door latch works. The camera looks brand new inside. What a deal! Ran a test roll through it seemed to work perfectly. It rewound the roll all the way into the canister. If only I didn't just sell my 35 1.4 G lens, but the 58g seems to work just fine.
lifeandmylens wrote:
Another “mistake”. I had been shooting with 120 film for a couple days and not as much 35mm. When the 35mm roll was done, I opened up the bottom before rewinding…again! Oh well, I’ve come to appreciate light leaks as character. M7 + Portra 800.
I too, once & while like to check that the film is loaded the old-fashioned way. M6 + Silbersalz 200T
lifeandmylens wrote:
First of the roll. 501cm + Portra 800
I noticed w your first shots they are partially light leak exposed with the Hassie. This also happens to me when I get my 120 developed by my lab BUT NOT when I develop it myself. So both your and my labs are being sloppy when loading the film into their developing machine. I just shot a bunch of colour 120 and will talk to my lab when I drop it off.
