ampguy
Veteran
Used only with 2 lenses so far - Nikkor 28/2.8 (.3m focus) and first gen 43-86 zoom, so focus and exposure are all manual.
I'll write up a review in my blog when I have more time, and have gone through the manual, but here are my first impressions:
Good small body size, lighter than an M, but with lenses, much longer.
ISO noise - pretty high for a DSLR at 1600, at least at 100% crop. Worse than Fuji F30, and Pentax *ist DL, and worse than K100D Super. Better than film or most P&S's though. 800 is fine.
Histogram is hidden, have to click OK button 3 times, but get 3 color channels.
Focus with electronic rangefinder dot is twitchy with my manual focus non-ai lenses, but does work. I use it all the time. The budget pentaprism for focusing MF lenses is as bad as everyone says, worse than the Pentax DSLR pentaprism models. A Katzeye is required for MF use, unless reliance on the green dot is OK. Good rangefinders will focus faster any day.
That's about it. indoors, 28/2.8 is much better length than the 43-86, although with the crop factor, pretty much the whole range is useable, where on full frame, the distortion at extremes is noticed more, hardly noticed on the crop sensor.
D-Lighting feature is nice if you want to save a badly exposed photo quickly, and not go through the computer post process method.
So far, it's a great digital back for these old lenses, High dynamic range, completely usable to ISO 800. The Manual Exposure only is a bonus for me, wish there were a way to display histogram by default, and a way to get the focus indicator less twitchy.
Anyone who has used both the D40(x) and D60 see any benefits of the D60 with regards to above?
If I didn't have this old Nikon glass that I like a lot, I'd probably have gone back to Pentax DSLRs, but am pretty happy with the Nikon so far - got as a refurb from Newegg for $279. Appears new, but packaging was specifically refurb packaging. Only 90 day Nikon warranty.
I'll write up a review in my blog when I have more time, and have gone through the manual, but here are my first impressions:
Good small body size, lighter than an M, but with lenses, much longer.
ISO noise - pretty high for a DSLR at 1600, at least at 100% crop. Worse than Fuji F30, and Pentax *ist DL, and worse than K100D Super. Better than film or most P&S's though. 800 is fine.
Histogram is hidden, have to click OK button 3 times, but get 3 color channels.
Focus with electronic rangefinder dot is twitchy with my manual focus non-ai lenses, but does work. I use it all the time. The budget pentaprism for focusing MF lenses is as bad as everyone says, worse than the Pentax DSLR pentaprism models. A Katzeye is required for MF use, unless reliance on the green dot is OK. Good rangefinders will focus faster any day.
That's about it. indoors, 28/2.8 is much better length than the 43-86, although with the crop factor, pretty much the whole range is useable, where on full frame, the distortion at extremes is noticed more, hardly noticed on the crop sensor.
D-Lighting feature is nice if you want to save a badly exposed photo quickly, and not go through the computer post process method.
So far, it's a great digital back for these old lenses, High dynamic range, completely usable to ISO 800. The Manual Exposure only is a bonus for me, wish there were a way to display histogram by default, and a way to get the focus indicator less twitchy.
Anyone who has used both the D40(x) and D60 see any benefits of the D60 with regards to above?
If I didn't have this old Nikon glass that I like a lot, I'd probably have gone back to Pentax DSLRs, but am pretty happy with the Nikon so far - got as a refurb from Newegg for $279. Appears new, but packaging was specifically refurb packaging. Only 90 day Nikon warranty.
