Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/09/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The Nikon F6 is quite another story -- you can program it for up to 10 AI or AIS lenses and the F6 will give you matrix metering and all the exposure modes. It even will imprint the right focal length and the aperture you used for each shot in the margin between frames. >I feel the same way, as probably do many Nikonians. I sprang for > the D200 recently, and when I got home, my first feeling was, "I > just spent that much money to stick a 105/2.5 AIS on it and get > a meter reading?" > Oh well. At least Nikon hasn't removed the aperture ring from > all their lenses yet :-) > > Scott > > Bartphotog@aol.com wrote: > >>In a message dated 9/2/06 5:35:59 AM, don.dory@gmail.com writes: >> >><< That and I have so many odd lenses that don't fit on any >> >>digital anything. >> >> >>Isn't that the truth! I have a number of old, manual-focus, Nikon lenses >>that I like a lot, and considered it a major betrayal of their customer >>base by Nikon that AI-S lenses I could use in every mode on my old FA, and >>in aperture-preferred AE on my N70, could be mounted but could not meter, >>even in match-needle manual mode, on anything less than the multi-thousand >>dollar super-pro digital bodies. The D200, of course, finally remedies >>that, but even the price of the D200 is not a sum I spend lightly. >> >>Bart >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Leica Users Group. >>See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > -- > Pics @ http://www.adrenaline.com/snaps > Leica M6TTL, Bessa R, Nikon FM3a, Nikon D70, Rollei AFM35 > (Jihad Sigint NSA FBI Patriot Act) > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >