Digital Nikon FM2 ?

CK Dexter Haven said:
Like a view camera, or a TLR, or a Hassy with a waist level finder?

I'm not sure why this is such a common complaint. The viewing device has to be pressed against your eyeball, or you're just not a serious photographer?
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Using a waist level finder is quite different than the way most cameras are used today and what was probably meant by "holding the camera at arms length".

He was probably referring to holding it with his arms extended forward, looking at the screen at the back. That is just very unstable way to hold the camera. Even if use fast enough shutter speed the framing is hard because you have to work quite hard to keep it steady and framed like you wanted when pressing the shutter button.

Holding the camera against your face will make it easier to hold stable. Using a camera with a waist level finder with and a neckstrap is even more stable. And view cameras are usually used with a tripod...

So... Using the screen on the back of the camera as the finder is just fine when using a tripod. Handheld, I'd rather have something else as the finder.
 
I wouldn't say "sadly" it's AF. I'd say thank God. When you get to 65 you need all the help you can get. AF was invented by someone who should get the Nobel Prize.
 
agricola said:
I wouldn't say "sadly" it's AF. I'd say thank God. When you get to 65 you need all the help you can get. AF was invented by someone who should get the Nobel Prize.
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Really? I'm now post-70, and what I really wish to see (but don't expect to see) is something like an FM2 or F3 with digital capture; no video (never, ever use that), no auto-anything, and old-fashioned controls (shutter speed, etc.) Basically, give me a first-rate old-school Nikon body that lets me use my old-school AI and AIs lenses, but with digital capture substituted for film capture.

I've still got (and use) film capture with the original versions of those cameras. Give me a way to just swap out the capture technology, so to speak, so that I can instead use digital capture when I wish.

Entirely unrealistic, I know.
 
We are all different, with different needs and wishes.
About needs: more types of cameras are on the markets easier will be to find the appropriate for our need. No one is forced to buy a "simple" camera as an FM2 like was intended in the beginning of this rumor if he's satisfied with the actual range of high tech cameras. But if in the market there is one more option, a "simple" camera other photographers could be satisfied. Why not?
About wishes: in my working times my boss always told me to find the difference between what a clients needs and what he wishes. A car fast as a Porsche, confortable like a Jaguar, roch of fashion like a Morgan and cheap as a Fiat is even in my own wish list but not very realistic. Now, a camera with the IQ like a ....hmmm, it is better you go on 🙂
robert
 
robert blu said:
We are all different, with different needs and wishes.
About needs: more types of cameras are on the markets easier will be to find the appropriate for our need. No one is forced to buy a "simple" camera as an FM2 like was intended in the beginning of this rumor if he's satisfied with the actual range of high tech cameras. But if in the market there is one more option, a "simple" camera other photographers could be satisfied. Why not?
About wishes: in my working times my boss always told me to find the difference between what a clients needs and what he wishes. A car fast as a Porsche, confortable like a Jaguar, roch of fashion like a Morgan and cheap as a Fiat is even in my own wish list but not very realistic. Now, a camera with the IQ like a ....hmmm, it is better you go on 🙂
robert
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The Voice of Wisdom. Thanks Robert. 🙂
 
agricola said:
I wouldn't say "sadly" it's AF. I'd say thank God. When you get to 65 you need all the help you can get. AF was invented by someone who should get the Nobel Prize.
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Why you just don`t visit a good optican ? I am 70 and eat eggs and butter every day. That keeps your eyesight in perfect shape. I never use AF, I have changed good microprism focusing screen in all of my SLR`s. no problem with focusing, rather I can detect focusing errors of the "green dot"
 
CK Dexter Haven said:
Like a view camera, or a TLR, or a Hassy with a waist level finder?

I'm not sure why this is such a common complaint. The viewing device has to be pressed against your eyeball, or you're just not a serious photographer?
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I'm so sorry that you assume that I'm imposing *my* preference to anyone.

... say, how do you actually use a TLR at arms length? I can't see the screen in enough detail to focus if I do that. And my arm is not even that long.

And lastly, I don't think any serious photographers would care if anyone else said that their non-preferred way to compose is the only way to be serious. 😀
 
What had me most excited from the Nikon Rumors link at the top of the thread was that is said the new camera will be able to do full aperture metering even with non-AI lenses. Now THAT's something.

As for autofocus, if the camera allows for manual focus lenses, even if you need to swap in a special focusing screen for optimal results, that will be fine by me. If it has a focus confirmation light in the viewfinder, that's OK too.

I'll be less happy if this is more like the size of an F3 than an FM/FE. I guess that's simply because the FM/FE is almost an ideal SLR for me, while I've never much liked the F3 (other than the 100% finder).

I do think Nikon will be pleasantly surprised with the sales, if indeed this is a more "pure" manual camera. Something that's not "auto" enough for the masses, but also not simple enough for the potential market that's spoken up on this thread, will not satisfy either cohort.
 
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KoNickon said:
What had me most excited from the Nikon Rumors link at the top of the thread was that is said the new camera will be able to do full aperture metering even with non-AI lenses. Now THAT's something.
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Technically speaking, for this it'll have to offer different metering prisms with different coupling systems. For non-AI lenses full aperture metering, only some couplers taking the "rabbit ears" of the lenses can work.

Not too sure ! Nikon never made such cameras in the past but for the F2 provided that you were owning several prisms at once. But when the AI prisms for the F2 were released, they discontinued the non-AI prisms at the same time...

Handy interchangeable prisms and focusing screens so that we can leave AF prisms and too bright screens aside while using MF lenses only would just be fantastic.

Interchangeable prisms would mean no built-in flash, too... 🙂
 
Nikon Muck-up per revealed teases by Slrclub
Notice the blurred area that would have the metering pin for non-Ai lenses!
Not quite an F3 prism, but a little larger than an FM/FM2 prism.
Even has a Hotshoe adapter rail as did the F's
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