Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/05/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]----- Original Message ----- From: "Henning Wulff" <henningw@archiphoto.com> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2005 9:15 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] Nikon D2X review > At 8:48 PM +0200 5/10/05, animal wrote: >>"" >>>When Nikon came out with the F80, I started looking around at other >>>options. The abandonment of the manual focus lenses was written on >>>the wall, and that was one of the main reasons I had stuck with >>>Nikon. >>> >>" >>According the reviews all the older lenses can be used again with the D2X >>best,simon jessurun > > True, and all the pro bodies can meter with the manual lenses. I am > not a photojournalist, and haven't needed the features of the pro > bodies for the most part, so I usually bought one pro body and the > rest were 'amateur' bodies. I wouldn't even care if the newer bodies > couldn't meter in all modes with the lenses, but to not even allow > the basic center weighted metering seems truly stupid. > > I can meter AI Nikkor lenses on all Canon EOS bodies, but hardly any > Nikon bodies from the last 10 years. Duh... > > -- > * Henning J. Wulff > /|\ Wulff Photography & Design > /###\ mailto:henningw@archiphoto.com > |[ ]| http://www.archiphoto.com > My F5 could not without modification . simon