coco1964 wrote:
Have had Vista for 5 years and can't understand why folks have such a hard time using it---never a problem in 5 years........
I've been using it for years too , its just that lr 5 isn't compatible with vista
Thanks for all the replies and input , will have a go at hooking laptop to desktop and see how that goes for the time being
Lee
Thanks for the reply mate , I don't have any discs as its all preloaded on bothe laptop and pc :o(
My pc runs vista and my laptop run windows 7 , my issue is this , do I buy light room 5 and just use on the laptop , which would be a pain in the perverbial due to the size of the screen , or do I settle for lightroom 4 which would work on both ? I can't afford to buy a new pc and lightroom ! Is lightroom 5 that much better than lightroom 4 ? Any help would be gratefully appreciated
If I'm correct , I think you can save the af fine tune settings for 12 lenses , and it will remember which setting is for which lens as soon as you mount it
MT Shooter wrote:
Set your camera on a tripod, put the autofocus to "SPOT" and lens at widest aperture. Stretch a carpenters tape out on the floor straight out from the tripod. Aim the lens at an even foot mark or something clear like 100 inches, I usually lay a pencil on the floor next to the tape pointing at the mark I used. Autofocus directly on that spot and take a picture. I usually adjust zooms at the longest focal length as that is where they are used most often (200mm on the 70-200). Look at that picture at 200% on your computer and seed what marks on the tape are sharpest. If 98 inches is the sharpest then you are front-focusing a bit. If 103 inches is the sharpest you are back focusing, adjust as necessary and try again until that 100 is the sharpest. If 100 is already sharp the lens is fine and don't mess with it.
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This is the method I used and my 55-200 seems to be ok now , my 70-300 is fine without the fine tune , also I found a setting to allow you to see the focus point on the frame taken , this helped me determine whether I was focusing on the correct spot
I spent all evening last evening trying to sort this out , I think I may have it now , but I think its pretty poor that I had to fine tune my nikon 55-200 to minus 7 to get a decent-ish result , I set the lens at 55 mm and fine tuned it to minus 6 and it focused exactly where it should have , but when I zoomed in to 200 mm it was still out , I've had to settle for a happy medium at minus 7 for both ends of the scale , I have yet to test it out hand held
Thanks for the replies , I'm just going to ring nikon uk and get the ball rolling , hopefully it won't be too costly and take too long
Ill have to go to the dealer as he registered the warranty for me when I bought it , unless I can do it online using the serial number
I have 5 days left on the warranty , so going to take it in and get it sent back to nikon for a check , internal battery is the one that came with the camera that is 2 years old now , the other battery came with the camera from new with a spare that I bought a couple of months ago
Getting a tad frustrated with my d7000 , I have it set on apreture priority , picture quality set to large , raw , fine , yesterday I went to use it and the settings had reset to factory settings , I put the seetings back as I normally have them and this morning I took the camera out of the bag and the same thing has happened , I first thought may I had pressed something by accident but the camera is alwas switched off before I put it away , has anyone had this problem before and if so how was it overcome , thanks in advance for any help on this