A closer look is rewarded.

Street shot

manana---thanks bob

did

I didn't know ( and still don't) how to get a pic from my unsorted Mac Iphotos
to the CREATE NEW TOPIC submition page. I dragged two to my desktop,
hi-lighted them on the downloaded list, clicked BROWSE, and something
meaningless (to me) appeared in the box to the left of the word BROWSE.
After completing the page and clicking SEND. the boxes were cleared and
the rest sent. No pix. Mac is OSX 10.5.8 ---.Could use some help.
Bob (Pilot 6)

I'm using an AF-S DX Nikkor 18-200 f3.5-5.6G ED VR II on my D610 body for a "walk around" camera and am getting very good images. Not expecting any surprises because of the crop factor, it was a bit unsettling to discover that the DX lens seems to get more light to the camera's meter than my FX
lenses: minus 1 1/3 to 1 2/3 stops compensation. So what? No big deal---
unless I totally misunderstand what's going on. Would welcome comments.
Bob (Pilot 6)

Thanks, Amehta and all others who have responded to my dumb questions. I've got the BBF issue in hand. Onward!
Pilot 6

Which Nikon bodies have BBF? I have a D610 and I can't find it in the camera or manial.
Pilot 6

Photo-pianists, wrap your brains around this: there was reported with pictures in the monthly journal for piano tuners, a reversed keyboard piano. It was a "one-off" hand made product of some strange genius. Anyone who plays or reads music will be amazed at the enormous implications: high notes to the left-low notes to the right; and on the printed page, everything reversed. A left handed SLR would be relatively simple but economically unfeasable. I saw this article a long time ago, and it may of been a harpsichord rather than a piano. Implications are the same.
Pilot 6

Photo-pianists, wrap your brains around this: there was reported with pictures in the monthly journal for piano tuners, a reversed keyboard piano. It was a "one-off" hand made product of some strange genius. Anyone who plays or reads music will be amazed at the enormous implications: high notes to the left-low notes to the right; and on the printed page, everything reversed. A left handed SLR would be relatively simple but economically unfeasable. I saw this article a long time ago, and it may of been a harpsichord rather than a piano. Implications are the same.
Pilot 6

I once had a slide duplicater that replaced the lens in my Nikon F. Very simple and satisfactory. As I recall, it was a tube of the proper length (2 or 3 inches) with a Nikon mount on one end, and a slide holder on the other. I know of no reason it wouldn't work on a dslr. Find one on EBAY or wherever and make your own digital copies.
Pilot 6

amen
Pilot 6

Surprising that Cartier-Bresson didn't get mentioned. Now he has! Pilot 6

Thanks Rich. I'm about to try it. bob

Thanks Rich, and all others that have welcomed me aboard. I'll try to send a couple of pix with this. Not at all sure how to get the JPGs from my Mac Iphoto to the form below. The depth of my ignorance in all things computor-related is really impressive. Bob

In 1938 at the age of twelve, I got my first adjustable camera: a Pilot 6. Has anyone heard of it? It's a small SLR---127 film---mirror is part of shutter---shutter speeds 1/25th, 1/50th and 1/100th---f6.3 lens ---rotatable disc behind lens with perforations rather than an iris diaphram. Never stopped taking pictures with dozens (maybe grosses) of cameras. Now shooting a Nikon D610 and doing as well as a computer-iliterate has any right to expect. I hope to find good-samaritans among my Hog brethren to lead me out of some of the rediculous fixes I manage to get into.
Bob Lagerquist
Eugene, OR