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- Charles Krebs
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So here's a different view of things - for studio work you don't need to flash sync at < 1/1000 of a second, you don't need a super accurate focus and exposure system, dang it you don't really need that much on the camera at all. Myself, I find it annoying to be having to mount/demount my camera all the time so here's what I'm going to do: go sniping for a really cheap D100 body. Add an MB-D100 and I get a 10 pin remote connection (or I'll maybe even mod the D100 and wire a socket for a remote electrical release). Use flash for lighting so mirror slap won't worry me (the antishock setting takes care of most of it anyway), if it does just use a long exposure and rear curtain flash.
So the D100 has a tiny view finder and LCD. I don't care - it has a great sensor and I don't need or want 10Mpixel images I'll tether it to my desktop with Fast Picture Viewer and check critical focus and exposure on a full screen monitor.
Best of all, I can start carrying my D200 around again and maybe take some field shots, or even unearth my 600f4 "mine's bigger than yours and I've got the back problems to prove it" and go shoot birds'n'beasts again as well as bugs. Now if the prices of a used D100 suddenly shoots up I'll kick myself for posting this.
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So the D100 has a tiny view finder and LCD. I don't care - it has a great sensor and I don't need or want 10Mpixel images I'll tether it to my desktop with Fast Picture Viewer and check critical focus and exposure on a full screen monitor.
Best of all, I can start carrying my D200 around again and maybe take some field shots, or even unearth my 600f4 "mine's bigger than yours and I've got the back problems to prove it" and go shoot birds'n'beasts again as well as bugs. Now if the prices of a used D100 suddenly shoots up I'll kick myself for posting this.
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Another one from Joseph on electronic shutters:-
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DaveW
http://myphotomoviecam.blogspot.com/200 ... tters.html
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C'mon AndyC,AndrewC wrote:So here's a different view of things - for studio work you don't need to flash sync at < 1/1000 of a second, you don't need a super accurate focus and exposure system, dang it you don't really need that much on the camera at all. Myself, I find it annoying to be having to mount/demount my camera all the time so here's what I'm going to do: go sniping for a really cheap D100 body. Add an MB-D100 and I get a 10 pin remote connection (or I'll maybe even mod the D100 and wire a socket for a remote electrical release). Use flash for lighting so mirror slap won't worry me (the antishock setting takes care of most of it anyway), if it does just use a long exposure and rear curtain flash.
So the D100 has a tiny view finder and LCD. I don't care - it has a great sensor and I don't need or want 10Mpixel images I'll tether it to my desktop with Fast Picture Viewer and check critical focus and exposure on a full screen monitor.
Best of all, I can start carrying my D200 around again and maybe take some field shots, or even unearth my 600f4 "mine's bigger than yours and I've got the back problems to prove it" and go shoot birds'n'beasts again as well as bugs. Now if the prices of a used D100 suddenly shoots up I'll kick myself for posting this.
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I just saved up enough money to buy a ripper S/H D200 that i've had my eye on.
Tell you what, you do the experiment, keep the results quiet and let me know when the time is right and i will buy a D100 at the new, lower market price. . . . deal???
bruce...
Hi Guys,
I don't know if this is allowed, or not, but I have asked about the 'best' lenses to be used for my pics and it has been mentioned, on more than one occasion, that the EL Nikkor 50mm 2.8 is an outstanding contender for the 'best' title. I have looked extensively throughout my resources here in Oz and I haven't been able to find one.
If any member has one for sale, would they kindly send me a PM with the details?
Thanks for taking the time guys,
Bruce...
I don't know if this is allowed, or not, but I have asked about the 'best' lenses to be used for my pics and it has been mentioned, on more than one occasion, that the EL Nikkor 50mm 2.8 is an outstanding contender for the 'best' title. I have looked extensively throughout my resources here in Oz and I haven't been able to find one.
If any member has one for sale, would they kindly send me a PM with the details?
Thanks for taking the time guys,
Bruce...
- rjlittlefield
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- rjlittlefield
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Definitely allowed. There's no problem with "equipment wanted" or even "equipment available" postings as long as it's personally used stuff being exchanged or upgraded. Forum policy doesn't allow advertisements by dealers or individuals making a profit on the exchanges.The BAT wrote:I don't know if this is allowed, or not, but ... If any member has one for sale, would they kindly send me a PM with the details?
--Rik
Thanks Rik,rjlittlefield wrote:Definitely allowed. There's no problem with "equipment wanted" or even "equipment available" postings as long as it's personally used stuff being exchanged or upgraded. Forum policy doesn't allow advertisements by dealers or individuals making a profit on the exchanges.The BAT wrote:I don't know if this is allowed, or not, but ... If any member has one for sale, would they kindly send me a PM with the details?
--Rik
It's a bit early for me to be opening my mouth to change my feet. . . .
I didn't want to offend, and I couldn't see a link to a classifieds section?
It is a real pity that you don't have a classified section, coz there must be a multitude of good gear that would love to be dusted off by a loving new owner. . . .
bruce...
I would have thought with darkroom equipment now being dumped wholesale Bruce with the digital change over there would be plenty of enlarger lenses like EL Nikkor's available in OZ. Have you tried EBAY? I got mine cheap off there.
I can only see a 75mm at the moment on OZ EBAY, but you can enter a search for the preferred 50mm f2.8 and save it and EBAY will send you an e-mail when one is posted:-
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Nikon-El-Nikkor- ... 286.c0.m14
Quite a few on UK EBAY:-
http://shop.ebay.co.uk/?_from=R40&_trks ... Categories
DaveW
I can only see a 75mm at the moment on OZ EBAY, but you can enter a search for the preferred 50mm f2.8 and save it and EBAY will send you an e-mail when one is posted:-
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Nikon-El-Nikkor- ... 286.c0.m14
Quite a few on UK EBAY:-
http://shop.ebay.co.uk/?_from=R40&_trks ... Categories
DaveW
What problems do you forsee with your 105mm Micro Nikkor on bellows?The BAT wrote:Hi Guys,
I don't know if this is allowed, or not, but I have asked about the 'best' lenses to be used for my pics and it has been mentioned, on more than one occasion, that the EL Nikkor 50mm 2.8 is an outstanding contender for the 'best' title. I have looked extensively throughout my resources here in Oz and I haven't been able to find one.
If any member has one for sale, would they kindly send me a PM with the details?
Thanks for taking the time guys,
Bruce...
Have you seen these images; at page bottom
HERE
NU.
student of entomology
Quote – Holmes on ‘Entomology’
” I suppose you are an entomologist ? “
” Not quite so ambitious as that, sir. I should like to put my eyes on the individual entitled to that name.
No man can be truly called an entomologist,
sir; the subject is too vast for any single human intelligence to grasp.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
The Poet at the Breakfast Table.
Nikon camera, lenses and objectives
Olympus microscope and objectives
student of entomology
Quote – Holmes on ‘Entomology’
” I suppose you are an entomologist ? “
” Not quite so ambitious as that, sir. I should like to put my eyes on the individual entitled to that name.
No man can be truly called an entomologist,
sir; the subject is too vast for any single human intelligence to grasp.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
The Poet at the Breakfast Table.
Nikon camera, lenses and objectives
Olympus microscope and objectives
Here's quite a nice longer one..
- Charles Krebs
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NU... nothing wrong there at all!
There were a variety of 105 micro Nikkors. Perhaps Bruce can tell us which one he has. But (way back ) in his original post he mentioned that he was looking for solutions that might take him up to 5X. That's tough to do with a 105mm focal length unless you want to deal with a looooong extension.
I have the old (30+ years) f4 manual version, and the a more recent AF f2.8 (the version before the current VR version). The AF one I have does not look as good when extended on bellows as my old 105/4. For mechanical construction reasons alone, if you want to try the technique of reversing another lens on the front, the AF version I have is not as good as yours or the 105/4.
Bruce... There are other lenses that will work well reversed on bellows. Some will give equal or better images than the El Nikkor 50/2.8. The 50/2.8 El Nikkor is often recommended here because a 50mm focal length provides a nice magnification range when used on a bellows, they are very good optically, (normally) easy to track down at very modest prices.
When you consider the big bucks so much of our gear costs, it's refreshing to realize you can make pictures like this with a $25 lens!
There were a variety of 105 micro Nikkors. Perhaps Bruce can tell us which one he has. But (way back ) in his original post he mentioned that he was looking for solutions that might take him up to 5X. That's tough to do with a 105mm focal length unless you want to deal with a looooong extension.
I have the old (30+ years) f4 manual version, and the a more recent AF f2.8 (the version before the current VR version). The AF one I have does not look as good when extended on bellows as my old 105/4. For mechanical construction reasons alone, if you want to try the technique of reversing another lens on the front, the AF version I have is not as good as yours or the 105/4.
Bruce... There are other lenses that will work well reversed on bellows. Some will give equal or better images than the El Nikkor 50/2.8. The 50/2.8 El Nikkor is often recommended here because a 50mm focal length provides a nice magnification range when used on a bellows, they are very good optically, (normally) easy to track down at very modest prices.
When you consider the big bucks so much of our gear costs, it's refreshing to realize you can make pictures like this with a $25 lens!
- rjlittlefield
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I know that Chris is joking, but I can't resist a serious response. That lens is not well matched to shooting macro with a DSLR. If you read the Nikon brochure posted by the seller, you'll see that the lens is optimized for 10X when used as an enlarging lens. The coverage of that lens is at least full-frame 35 mm on one side and 10X that on the other. But at 10X when shooting macro with a DSLR, you'll be using at most full-frame 35 mm on the camera side, and 1/10 of that -- 2.4 x 3.6 mm -- on the other side. So you would be in essence wasting 99% of the coverage area that was designed into the lens.ChrisR wrote:Here's quite a nice longer one..
This would not be a problem except that 1) the cost is a lot higher than it needs to be, 2) the designer may have had to compromise central resolution in order to get good resolution over the larger coverage, and 3) the lens is ony f/5.6 and will not give nearly as good resolution as other lenses that are designed to work well wider open.
For high mag macro work, using a reversed lens, really all you care about is what would have been central resolution in the lens's original application. Microscope objectives are a completely different story, of course.
--Rik