PaulBrit Loc: Merlin, Southern Oregon

The Nikon D750 manual is 506 pages long and in smallish print! I must admit that I prefer the David Busch book on the D750.

PaulBrit Loc: Merlin, Southern Oregon

EJ, what a lovely response. I have just returned from taking my pickup in for some auto work at a local shop in Grants Pass. They will have it for two days.

But I put the bike in the back of the pickup and rode home. It was just 15 miles and I try and ride every other day. Simply an endorsement of your secret of keeping moving. I would love to live to 100 but try not to think too much about that. All I wish for is that when the end comes, it comes very quickly, and just a few days after my wife's death. Oh, and a few minutes after taking to you!!

EJMcD

I say save your money and first make use of the manual that was already paid for when the camera was purchased. If one feels they need more they can subsequently purchase many fine books.

nikon123 Loc: Toronto, Canada

One does not require all the bells and whistles of what is called a professional camera to make compelling images. I think that owning the latest camera is more about ego than photography. I have been teaching photography for these past 7 years. The registrants use all makes and models and produce some very creative images. I like the post very much.
To quote Samuel Johnson (English writer of the 1700's) which I believe is relevant to the discussion 'were it not for imagination a. man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess'.

nikon123 Loc: Toronto, Canada

One does not require all the bells and whistles of what is called a professional camera to make compelling images. I think that owning the latest camera is more about ego than photography. I have been teaching photography for these past 7 years. The registrants use all makes and models and produce some very creative images. I like the post very much.
To quote Samuel Johnson (English writer of the 1700's) which I believe is relevant to the discussion 'were it not for imagination a. man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess'.

OldSchool-WI Loc: Brandon, Wisconsin 53919

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I might be older than both as I am over eighty and like you--no aches and pains and am mobile. But be careful and don't do foolish things like I did twice---sprained my back with swinging around a ladder and three years later trying to roll a log with a six foot bar which was in essence a "over maximum"---dead lift.--total stupidity. But primary besides movement is diet. I attribute my lack of any arthritis to taking four aspirins per day (for over 40 years) --just to hold down any incipient inflammation. After all---aspirin is the oldest anti-inflammatory and costs pennies for the four per day. Also for forty years I have been on a dairy diet. Powdered milk of about three quarts per day in thickened form. Adelle Davis claimed she never experienced a person having cancer that drank at least a quart of milk. And don't forget to read Durk Pearson and Sandy Shaw's book on life extension. Also, Bernarr McFadden authored a book on a milk diet. And as a child I saw on the Pathe News, Bernarr jumping off the Brooklyn Bridge at age eighty! ----And lastly think of Old Par--the longest living recorded human at 153 years!----buried where the Queen is now being buried---Westminster. And in the days of Charles I you didn't try to fool the king. He lived through Henry VII, Henry VIII, Eliz I ---all the way to Charles I. His portrait was painted by two famous artists before he died. He was autopsied by the man who traced the flows of blood--Dr. Harvey! He----lived on dairy and was a dairyman.-------ew

OldSchool-WI Loc: Brandon, Wisconsin 53919

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In 1954 when I bought my first serious camera, a professor of photography, once teaching at Purdue, advised me to keep to one camera and master that alone. I branched out the next year. And now in the digital age, I use seven different bodies above the point and shoots. I must admit that every now and then I must look up some of the in depth menu features and have not property compared the actions from the various sensors in a methodical way---nor for the lenses and particularly those with converters to different mounts. The problem with mount converters is that most modern digitally intended lenses do not have manual F: stop adjustment rings and mount converters are rarely or never electronic. So--still Dr. Ed Kohl's advice is sound---try to stick to only one good body and probably also--one lens rather than twenty.------ew

Piraterich

The equipment is merely a vehicle of expression and all you mentioned are wonderful

EJMcD

Keep moving but remember...a wise man knows his limitations.

SuperflyTNT Loc: Manassas VA

I see why you’re “Old School”. You have no clue about current mount adapters. There are many options that offer full electronic control.

EJMcD

Uh-Oh, the insults have begun as feared in one of my earlier posts. It was just a matter of time and I knew it wouldn't take long. We all have a common interest in Photography and it is beyond me why some members can't express their opinion without insulting others.

EJMcD

See my previous reply to yours as well as the latest post. It's beginning!

OldSchool-WI Loc: Brandon, Wisconsin 53919

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Again----"if you have nothing good to say----don't insult the intelligents of your target?" I have more than a dozen digitals and electronic intermounts are not offered. And I have a box full of adapters. I can mount my Exacta lenses and screw 42mm lenses without contacts but none of my Sigma electronic lenses to Sony or Olympus---electronically. Nor electronic Sony Alpha mount to either Olympus or Sigma. So quit the snarky business?------------ew------possibly you have electronic interchange mounts between Nikon and Canon?---possibly not?-------

SuperflyTNT Loc: Manassas VA

Perhaps you meant “intelligence”

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