Yeah, serious dust bunny on the sensor that showed up at f/8. Guess I need to touch up with the healing brush in Lightroom. Can’t do much with the power lines. Darn modern infrastructure
SiMuMe wrote:
Beautiful image even though you think there's something wrong with it, George. *shrug*. I've looked at it from all angles, fine image but because of the forced double-take I have discovered lines crossing over in the distance and a "worm" floating on top of the trees. Maybe thicker fog required now
This camera was only the second ever digital full frame. Almost 20 years ago, before I had ever even touched my first Nikon. I used to sport a Canon 40S p&s and thought its 3X digital zoom was so wonderful at the time the Kodak was released.
The loyalty break is only 'kind of' since the Pro 14n is based on the F80 body. The turn of the century little LCD screen creates a bit of a challenge to review the image you just took. The battery is another challenge, doesn't last through too many shots, and if you use the flash it will go quicker. Helps to have a spare fully charged battery handy. I like the shape, it fits well in the hand, and also has a vertical grip that I haven't put much to use yet.
I had a Canon S40 too! Got it in 2001 and I still have it - stored in a shoe box with lots of other vintage digital stuff.
My foray into Nikon didn't start until 2008 with a D80.
This camera was only the second ever digital full frame. Almost 20 years ago, before I had ever even touched my first Nikon. I used to sport a Canon 40S p&s and thought its 3X digital zoom was so wonderful at the time the Kodak was released.
The loyalty break is only 'kind of' since the Pro 14n is based on the F80 body. The turn of the century little LCD screen creates a bit of a challenge to review the image you just took. The battery is another challenge, doesn't last through too many shots, and if you use the flash it will go quicker. Helps to have a spare fully charged battery handy. I like the shape, it fits well in the hand, and also has a vertical grip that I haven't put much to use yet.
This camera was only the second ever digital full frame. Almost 20 years ago, before I had ever even touched my first Nikon. I used to sport a Canon 40S p&s and thought its 3X digital zoom was so wonderful at the time the Kodak was released.
The loyalty break is only 'kind of' since the Pro 14n is based on the F80 body. The turn of the century little LCD screen creates a bit of a challenge to review the image you just took. The battery is another challenge, doesn't last through too many shots, and if you use the flash it will go quicker. Helps to have a spare fully charged battery handy. I like the shape, it fits well in the hand, and also has a vertical grip that I haven't put much to use yet.
Great series, Samy but that first one I like so much more. The beauty of files from old cameras is not describable. It's almost like manufacturers spent more time tuning the output back then due to the limitations of the tech. I could say new cameras are too perfect but then knowing me, in 2033 I might be caught saying the Z5/50 files looked are so appealing.Either I'm right or the manufacturers are relying on tech more with each generation.
Samy,
I always have liked Kodak's colors. When I tested prototypes for them, Nikon, and the Associated Press in the early nineties - my reports for years complained fiercely for a full frame sensor. By the time it came almost a decade had passed, and DX/crop sensor lenses had been developed instead. The image quality looks really good, and 14 megapixels is plenty of resolution. Congrats on your DCS Pro 14n!
Jim
This camera was only the second ever digital full frame. Almost 20 years ago, before I had ever even touched my first Nikon. I used to sport a Canon 40S p&s and thought its 3X digital zoom was so wonderful at the time the Kodak was released.
The loyalty break is only 'kind of' since the Pro 14n is based on the F80 body. The turn of the century little LCD screen creates a bit of a challenge to review the image you just took. The battery is another challenge, doesn't last through too many shots, and if you use the flash it will go quicker. Helps to have a spare fully charged battery handy. I like the shape, it fits well in the hand, and also has a vertical grip that I haven't put much to use yet.
Pretty close Colin! I got a D50 in 2006, along with the 18-55 and a longer zoom lens. I didn't get the full frame D800 until 2012 which led to a manual lens (the 135 2.8 E series) and this thread.
DeltaSigma wrote:
Samy,
I had a Canon S40 too! Got it in 2001 and I still have it - stored in a shoe box with lots of other vintage digital stuff.
My foray into Nikon didn't start until 2008 with a D80.
This camera was only the second ever digital full frame. Almost 20 years ago, before I had ever even touched my first Nikon. I used to sport a Canon 40S p&s and thought its 3X digital zoom was so wonderful at the time the Kodak was released.
The loyalty break is only 'kind of' since the Pro 14n is based on the F80 body. The turn of the century little LCD screen creates a bit of a challenge to review the image you just took. The battery is another challenge, doesn't last through too many shots, and if you use the flash it will go quicker. Helps to have a spare fully charged battery handy. I like the shape, it fits well in the hand, and also has a vertical grip that I haven't put much to use yet.
Now that is a blast from the digital past! That and the Contax N were full frame. So wish Contax would have hung in there. Killer Zeiss T* glass with those. (Ducking from incoming grief on this thread)
This camera was only the second ever digital full frame. Almost 20 years ago, before I had ever even touched my first Nikon. I used to sport a Canon 40S p&s and thought its 3X digital zoom was so wonderful at the time the Kodak was released.
The loyalty break is only 'kind of' since the Pro 14n is based on the F80 body. The turn of the century little LCD screen creates a bit of a challenge to review the image you just took. The battery is another challenge, doesn't last through too many shots, and if you use the flash it will go quicker. Helps to have a spare fully charged battery handy. I like the shape, it fits well in the hand, and also has a vertical grip that I haven't put much to use yet.
There's a few still around on the internets Leighton, so I could get hold of a spare Don't know who in there right mind would be looking for those in 2023!
Fortunately the hefty charger came with the camera.
leighton w wrote:
Welcome to the dark side, sort of. How did you find a battery that still worked for it?
Sounds like a fun job, being a beta tester for professional cameras! I don't think I knew much at all about the terms aperture and shutter speed back in that time.
James Markus wrote:
Samy,
I always have liked Kodak's colors. When I tested prototypes for them, Nikon, and the Associated Press in the early nineties - my reports for years complained fiercely for a full frame sensor. By the time it came almost a decade had passed, and DX/crop sensor lenses had been developed instead. The image quality looks really good, and 14 megapixels is plenty of resolution. Congrats on your DCS Pro 14n!
Jim
Samy,
They were just prototypes for about two years until the NC2000 AP in late 1993 or 1994. That was the first portable professional digital camera. I just added the new cameras to my existing three film body kit, and only used it to compare, or if the usage wasn't going to require high resolution. It was fun, but film was so superior to digital then - that I found the rate of progress frustrating. My "job" was as a marketing photographer, and I got into the testing through a few lucky conditions. One, I was asked by the editorial photo department to pick up supplies for the newspaper at a local photo store in March of 1989 - where I encountered my first "still" digital camera. It was a Canon video camera that shot 320 x 240 pixel stills to use as proofs on lighting, focus etc. It was an epiphany for me, because I instantly knew it would scale to replace film - which would free me from printing all day on Thursdays in the darkroom. Another condition was the prevailing attitude by editorial photographers to not learn another way to take photos. Some had spent lifetimes perfecting their analog styles, and "if it ain't broke..." Another condition was the newspaper's determination to be first at everything - highest tech, newest, biggest etc. I wrote a report about my 1989 visit to the photo store and what I thought that meant for photography, and the associated costs at the paper. Not long after I had a stream of cameras being regularly brought to me to test. I was never happy with any of them - which seemed to just require me writing more reports.
Jim
saph wrote:
Sounds like a fun job, being a beta tester for professional cameras! I don't think I knew much at all about the terms aperture and shutter speed back in that time.
We were finally blessed with substantial rain is San Diego, perhaps too much elsewhere.
Plants are happy, the sky very clear, and the sharpness and contrast of the 10mm OP gets it all in.
Next purchase will be a Z7II to get the most of of these sharp lenses.
How did you find a battery that still worked for it?
