Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/05/10

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Subject: [Leica] Nikon D2X review
From: s.jessurun95 at chello.nl (animal)
Date: Tue May 10 12:39:52 2005
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----- 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

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