Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/07/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks Mark. My head is still swimming from the changes in Nikkor lens types since I last checked in with Nikon (think F3A - it's been a while). It all used to be so easy. I suspect there's a D40x in my future. It's only slightly bigger than the E-410, has the larger sensor, and there are all those wonderful old Nikkors to use with it. (Even restricting the choice to CPU/AF lenses still leaves a lot of used stock to choose from.) Regards, Dick On Jul 26, 2007, at 2:44 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote: >> Mark - How did you set exposure with that lens on the D40x? I've >> been looking at one but all the info I've found says the meter is >> non- >> op with non-CPU lenses. What specific model was the lens? E.g., AF? >> AI? AF-I? or something else? >> >> Thanks. >> >> Regards, >> >> Dick >> >> >> >> On Jul 20, 2007, at 12:56 AM, Mark Rabiner wrote: >> (snip) >> >>> I carried around and shot with my D40x tonight with an old 28 2.8 >>> early AF >>> lens on it in the Lincoln Center area. There was a big party going >>> on with >>> a musical group with lots of percussionists. I was glad I had a >>> compact 2.8 >>> and not a big slow zoom like I often have on my cameras. >>> I focused myself and had a ball doing it. >>> Shot at A set the lens at f4. Not more P for me. >>> The lens is not worth 40 bucks but I love using it. >> >> (snip) >>> >>> Mark Rabiner >>> >>> Snap snap >>> >>> > > Its an AF lens and so the exposure works. > > If it was not an AI lens I think the exposure doesn't work. Pity. > Love using many lenses of the 70's vintage on my D200. > But to me that's just not a casual work around walk around camera. > Just a bit overly enabling for my blood. My tunnel carpel is waning > with > this feather weight I carry for miles with the neck strap wrapped > around my > wrist. > > > So I just now put an old 28mm 3.5 on it I got for 40 bucks. > It says "lens I not attached" on the back of it!!! > So I set it on M and I get my exposures by trial and error like > shooting > polaroids. Kind of fun but I'll skip it on this body for the old > stuff. Just > use the higher priced spread bodies for the old glass. > > The AF 28 2.8 I had on there the other day is the very first AF > lens Nikon > made when they just first invented AF. Ugly. Not very popular. > Cheap. No > close focusing correction. CRC > No dampening when you focus. > Love it. > > Its light as a feather compact and is good wide open at 2.8. > > People don't run away when I photograph them with it. > > Mark William Rabiner > Harlem, NY. > > rabinergroup.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information