ACP - Nikon F5. 0This page is no longer actively maintained. Pardon?)Long- winding, highly personal introduction. Feel free to skip. Photography has been an interest of mine ever since I was seven or eight and. Kodak Instamatic 1. Wales for. a pound.
* VR is a very valuable stand-alone feature. All VR lenses are either traditional AF or AF-S, in which column you'll see how the other features work. ** G is not a feature. G is a handicap. G lenses are lenses which have been crippled by removing their aperture. Review: Nikon F3/T and F3. I use both an F3 and an FE, and there two things I dislike about the F3. First, in comparison to the FE, the F3 viewfinder magnification is reduced. Features The F4 introduced many Nikon owners to autofocus (as well as focus tracking), and was the first professional Nikon to utilize a vertical-travel metal-blade shutter (with shutter balancer to minimize noise and camera bounce). As a fully electronic camera with. Long-winding, highly personal introduction. Feel free to skip. Photography has been an interest of mine ever since I was seven or eight and bought my first camera, a Kodak Instamatic 100, at a car boot sale in Wales for a pound.
Back then I would take some pictures of my surroundings maybe once a. I did regularly, or even saw as a.
When I grew older I started to appreciate photography more and more, but. The turnaround came in December 1. I rediscovered my mom's old unused Pentax Spotmatic F in a closet, together. Nikon compact. in the first place), and some extension rings.
I started playing with the set. Tmax for Christmas, and the rest is history. I joined. my high school's dark room club (as the only member), and to make a long story. Spotmatic so great, that I wanted a new camera. A real one this time. In the year that passed, I had subscribed to the monthly Dutch Focus.
Nikon's new unparallelled F5, which. Nikon back in place as leader of the camera industry, at the. Canon and their EOS- 1. Caught in this vortex of spin and hype, I decided.
A review of the Nikon D7000 digital camera by Nikon expert Thom Hogan. Surprisingly, there are many handling differences to write about, despite the fact that the D7000 doesn't show all that much external difference in controls than the D90.
Nikon. That gave me four and. Nikon's entire consumer line- up of cameras consisted of, in. F5. 0, the F7. 0, the F9. X, and. the F5 (not including the Nikonos RS, which was an underwater camera, or the.
There was also. half an option of sorts: back then, Nikon was clearing out its Fx. Fxx series, and I could also opt for a discounted Nikon F4.
X. It could do. lots of what the F5. Drawback: yesterday's. What a choice. I could ignore anything above the F5. F4. 01. X and the F5. It was difficult. On one hand I was on a really tight budget and even had to extract money from my. I wanted a shiny new F5.
Canon 'Best Lenses' must include the TS-E lenses - many Nikon owners buy a Canon body just for these. It must also include the 135/2.0L and 180/3.5L Mac, the two sharpest lenses Canon has (according to both my tests and Canon's MTF simulations). Any 135/2. End of 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s Professional F3AF F4 F5 F6 F F2 F3 High-end F-501 (N2020) F90 (N90) F90X (N90s) F100 F-801 (N8008) F-801S (N8008S) F80 (N80) Mid-range FT FTn FT2 FT3 F-601 (N6006) F70 (N70) F75 (N75) FS ELW FE.
I've always adhered to. Dutch saying that "cheap is expensive": if you're going to buy something.
The F4. 01. X seemed like the inferior. I. didn't exactly have a choice. So the F4. 01. X it was. Good thing you know how this. On a Wednesday in September 1.
I went to a camera store in a. I knew they had an F4. X clear- out sale, on a mission to buy. F4. 01. X as cheaply as possible. However, when we got there, the salesperson.
F4. 01. X was permanently out of. F5. 0's. Disappointed and grudgingly I went. At the end of the day, I went home with. F5. 0 body and one for the AF Nikkor 3. D. The boxes were beautiful and heavy, and although I felt guilty for spending. I wanted (and for making a scene in the store because they weren't.
I was very delighted with my new real. Naturally I kept my F5. I took my time to get to know it.
Spotmatic F: like a normal tool, but always with care and precaution. Now it's 2. 00. 4 and my F5. I estimate I've shot. Austria, Holland, Death Vally, Rome, Vienna, Germany, Mallorca and. Britain. It's been in freak rain and snow storms (protected by a plastic bag). North Sea and the Spanish beaches, and has. Pacific and the Atlantic.
Six years of intense but careful use later. Pick of lenses. I don't know if this is true globally, but in Holland the standard companion. F5. 0 was the AF Nikkor 3. D. If I remember correctly, it was. F5. 0 in a discount set with that lens, or buy only the. Given the target group of mainly amateurs, I believe most of the F5.
Also, because most amateurs never take enough pictures to. I used it myself for two years, but when I found myself always using the. Spotmatic- mounted 2. Pentacon lens on the side for. I figured it became time to buy a real wide. A year after I bought the camera, it was my birthday again, and I could make.
After consulting lots of photo books on the usefulness of various. I decided I wanted a 2. It was described in one of the books as. Given my adage that. I set my eye on none less than the AF Nikkor 2. D. Unfortunately though, it was too expensive for my fourteen- year- old self.
Second. choice was the Tokina 1. F5. 0 doesn't perform well. Torn apart, I decided on the spot that. I couldn't have the wideangle I wanted, I might as well go for an extreme. So I got a Sigma APO 7. D. However, the marriage didn't. I became bored with tele and haven't used it for the past three years.
Oh. well. A year later of again only using the 3. I. decided I really had to get a wideangle for this birthday. Fortunately I was now. I had enough cash to buy the long desired AF. Nikkor 2. 4mm f/2.
D. I did so on a late and prosaic afternoon, and finally found. To this day the 2. I use on my F5. 0. Maybe that in the future I'll buy a 5.
I really have all the focals I need. What's so interesting about the particular history of my F5. Well, first of all this is a personal website so I can write all the crap I. I think my 2. 4mm proves a point about this camera. Namely. that the F5. I'm thinking the affordable. Nikon wides like the AF Nikkor 3.
D, the AF Nikkor 2. D, and of. course the AF Nikkor 2. D. Also, the AF Nikkor 5. D and the AF. Nikkor 8.
D make great combinations with the F5. Why? Because all these. F5. 0's autofocus to handle well, both in terms of. They are also well balanced by the F5. The same lens on the F5 won't make a better picture.
F5. 0 screws up the light metering, which it usually doesn't. Wisdom. has it that it's the lens that makes the photo, not the camera. Other wisdom has.
In either case the light- tight box comes last. Remember what Cartier- Bresson did.
Leica- II? Don't pride yourself on your F1. Get a small and light F5. I'm not saying the F5.
F5. 0 with. 2. 4mm is ideal. I do street photography, fast and easy, and I'd like to see any. F5. 0 in that area. When asked for my dream camera set, I always. Nikon FM2n Black with an AI- S Nikkor 2.
F5. 0 with lens taken to an all- manual, more durable realm. So. yeah, I'm happy. Let the real review begin! Unfortunately you can't please everyone all the time. While I'm very happy.
Nikon did on this camera, there's lots of people who have an. Being somewhat of an F5. I'll try to rebuke their. The AF is noisy and slow.
Ziff, ziff. Yes, the AF is undeniably noisy (to tackle that aspect first). So. noisy even that I took my F5. Apparently it is, so I have to agree. However, you can always turn the AF off. F5. 0 doesn't detect sharpness. Normally you can only take pictures when.
As for the speed of the AF, it's. Nikons, but I think you.
Not only. are their focusing trajectories shorter, but there's also much less glass to. I know from experience that focusing long tele lenses with the F5.
F5. 0 can hold its ground with any short. It focuses my 2. 4 very quickly and accurately. The transport is one frame per second. This is a definite paper drawback, and undoubtedly a frequently used argument. I think how you take this. F5. 0 for. For me, one frame a second is enough, but. I was a sports photographer, I might think differently.
Then again, I'd be. F5. 0 in the first place. I can't blame Nikon for not. F9. 0X or so. The F5. To be precise, the F5. AF Nikkors, with the exception of. F3. AF. If you're using an AF- IS or AI- P lens, you'll need to.
F5. 0's full light metering. If you're using other manual lenses, you can use the F5. I sometimes use an old. Nikon bellows, and I have to measure the light with a Bessa- L body and. L3. 9- to- Nikon adapter and then transfer the data to my F5.
F5. 0's exposure meter doesn't work – which is very annoying. There are. restrictions on the manual Nikkors you can mount, too. These are all okay to.
AF lenses. AI- P; AF- IS; AI- type (AI, AI- S, AI converted) with the exception of the Fisheye 6mm f/5. Fisheye OP 1. 0mm f/5. Nikon E lenses; Reflex lenses 5. Medical- Nikkor 1. Teleconverters (with the exception of the TC1. TC1. 6A). It is said that the F5. AF- S (silent wave) and VR lenses.
Remember, you can mount and use manual lenses, but the F5. All functionality vaporizes. Again, it depends. I. don't think it's such a ridiculous idea to have a camera that only works with AF. AF day and age. Though it can sometimes be annoying to see all.
The metering is not as good as on other Nikons. I don't have a really good answer to this one, because I've never used any. Nikon SLRs. According to the specs, the F5. Nikon's own 6. 0–4. If you. couple a D lens, the F5.
D matrix metering, which means it includes. That's fairly advanced. Speaking from personal experience, the F5. Of course. since God helps those who help themselves, it works if you know a bit about. A(uto)E(xposure) lock pressed, pan out to the.
I want, and take the shot. Metering the grass or a 6. The batteries are hard to find. Depends on your location, I guess. I've never had a problem locating those. CR5's or DL2. 45's, but on holidays I always take a spare. Just common sense.
The. 2. CR5's are a bit expensive though, and Nikon would have made me quite happy with. AA accu pack annex bottom grip. There's no DOF preview. I don't know why the target audience should want DOF, but if you must have. Unlock your lens from the f/2. DOF at. Uncouple the lens.
Press the. lens firmly to the body, and hey presto, poor man's DOF preview. No 3. D multi balanced flash. True. The flash is either matrix balanced in automatic mode or. I don't understand why Nikon didn't include 3. D. multi balanced flash on a camera that already knows the object distance from the. D coupling, but I reckon it's just feature cut to provide a reason of being to.
But while the F5. My high school. used to have an F5. SB- 2. 6 flash, and that combination gave us perfect. I wouldn't be surprised if. F5. 0 relaying the D information. Bad ergonomics. This point isn't very specified.
I personally find the F5. I can understand that some people. The interface involves a lot. SLR. The F5. 0 is a pain to use.
I'll tell you that. The LCD is unlit. This is a very true drawback of using the F5.
You can't see. the program shifts in the lit viewfinder display, so you have to rely on the. LCD. Also, other operations that are hidden by a chain of commands. However, in practice it's. LCD by; or otherwise you. Okay, maybe that's a bit contrived. I know that when. F5. 0 in aperture or shutter speed preselect mode, everything you do.
All the functions are hidden and setting parameters is very slow. For a novice, yes. For an experienced user, no.
I think I qualify as an. I can find my way around the F5.