Nikkor-O.C 35mm f/2 ai'd & CPU'd, ISO 64, f/5.6 at 1/250s. 53% cropped (24/45MP). The house is the 3 storeys high building at the centre of the frame. Cloudy late January morning.
Nikkor-O.C 35mm f/2 ai'd & CPU'd, ISO 64, f/5.6 at 1/500s. 40% cropped (18/45MP). It is supposed to be written in Padovan dialect, telling Galileo lived here 18 years. The plaque was put there in 1959.
Nikkor-P.C 105mm f/2.5 ai'd, ISO 1400, f/8 at 1/500s. 2 focus stacked image, with perspective corrected in CS6 photoshop. It is supposed to be written in Padovan dialect, telling Galileo lived here 18 years. The plaque was put there in 1959.
You'll find that this thread can be dangerous to your wallet....
I have two N90s but the F5 has always been a dream. Maybe later this year, I'll have one...
OffTrail wrote:
Never knew the MF-28 could caption between frames. That, along with a metadata reader that can pull the exposure info the F5 saves anyway, might make for a pretty slick way to catalog things. Very tempting.
NightOwl Cat wrote:
You'll find that this thread can be dangerous to your wallet....
I have two N90s but the F5 has always been a dream. Maybe later this year, I'll have one...
Yeah, my short list was actually short before I started checking in here.
If you do go on the hunt for an F5 online, be sure to find out if the info strip in the viewfinder is faded before buying. It seems to be a fairly frequent issue that sellers don't check. So far, only one of the four F5 viewfinders I've looked through has been fully-functional, and that's the one I just got. My other doesn't show frame count or meter, and the other two I've looked through were almost completely useless. I'm just living it up with this new one!
I might pay a little more, but I think I'll wind up buying one from KEH or MPB since they both offer a six month warranty.
OffTrail wrote:
Yeah, my short list was actually short before I started checking in here.
If you do go on the hunt for an F5 online, be sure to find out if the info strip in the viewfinder is faded before buying. It seems to be a fairly frequent issue that sellers don't check. So far, only one of the four F5 viewfinders I've looked through has been fully-functional, and that's the one I just got. My other doesn't show frame count or meter, and the other two I've looked through were almost completely useless. I'm just living it up with this new one! ...Show more →
NightOwl Cat wrote:
I might pay a little more, but I think I'll wind up buying one from KEH or MPB since they both offer a six month warranty.
The six-month warranty goes a long way for this older stuff. I bought an F100 from Robert's that quit after a couple or three months and they were super easy to work with.
Meant to add, this is the first time I have tried a bag bellows with the Wistas. Definitely works better with the 90 f8 in terms of front standard movements.
Check out an F-801 (or related models the F-801s or N8080/s). They are very inexpensive and feature rich. OffTrail wrote:
The six-month warranty goes a long way for this older stuff. I bought an F100 from Robert's that quit after a couple or three months and they were super easy to work with.
