The M7 has a stepless shutter in AE and is incredibly accurate. As a matter of fact, I have NEVER had a badly exposed shot out of it. It's always right on.
All the other Ms have stepless shutters as well, but you can't quite know at what value you are at exactly. But the important thing is that when you set it between 1/60 and 1/125, you know it is exposing at 1/90 give or take some. It is indeed between those two speeds and not at either 1/60 or 1/125th.
I've had a darkroom in continuous use for over 40 years. I was out this week with Hasselblad, one back loaded with Velvia 100, the other with Ektachrome. I process my own. The point is well taken that at 14 frames per second, one would need a bulk film back. But man, a film camera with the latest electronics would be pretty cool. All I use my digital cameras for are taking pictures of my cats yawning and such. I have never figured out how to print without film, the bigger the better. I use my F5's for slides on trips, auto bracket 1/2 stop. Easy,That is as maybe but I don't have a D6 nor do I want one. I prefer film and I don't waste/use frames like a machine gunner uses bullets. My subjects don't tend to move very quickly which is why I have the F6 on single shot all the time. I wager I have a higher success rate with single exposures, than using it than you do on on motordrive. Think of my use being like a single shot sniper and can get what I want with one shutter action instead of point and shoot 10 or 20 times.
On top of that My F6 and for that matter my F100 are both several years old but both will be working far longer than your plastic machine gun. I make every shot count if I can, the skill with film is in my head and fingers working in a darkroom not some pre programmed software to make it work. Even my venerable D700 still has less than 8000 shutter activations since it was new it does all I want at very little cost to me.
Nikon F2 has a purely mechanical shutter that is continuously variable between 1/80 and 1/2000th second. Old School.Are you sure? Stepless means a camera can shoot at any speed variable outside of its normally mark steps.
An example would be a speed variation of 1/277 or 1/46 of a second, while the camera is limited to 1/250 and 1/30 in manual mode.
Well said.[QUOTE="miha, post: 2329953, member: 18788"
There is one niche left for film, and that is FINE ART. And the f6 will always be beat by a nice mechanical Baby for fine art photography. Fine art being film, from shooting all the way to printing. The whole craft.
Try to remember: "Fine Art" has nothing to do with capture, either analog, digital, water colors, pencil, etching, wood cut, oil or acrylic. Art of any kind is the IDEA coupled with a SENSIBILITY.
Nikon F2 has a purely mechanical shutter that is continuously variable between 1/80 and 1/2000th second. Old School.
Good point, it's just to use to match the needle on the meter.Yes, but the speeds fail to be repeatably accurate outside of it's fixed stops.
This however may not be a liability in actual use.
The M7 has a stepless shutter in AE and is incredibly accurate. As a matter of fact, I have NEVER had a badly exposed shot out of it. It's always right on.
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I may have misunderstood your above sentence but I think you are saying that the F6 will be beat by an all mechanical camera every time . Is this for FINE ART only or for other kinds of photography? What is is about a nice mechanical BABY that beats the F6 and what nice mechanical BABIES fall into the nice BABY category and why ?[QUOTE="miha, post: 2329953, member: 18788"
There is one niche left for film, and that is FINE ART. And the f6 will always be beat by a nice mechanical Baby for fine art photography.
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Thanks ArthurUnfortunately that was not my quote but came from somebody else. My quote can be found in #127.
Most probably, the less autofocus, the less auto film advance, the less fancy metering, the more analogHaha, we're now arguing over whose camera is "more analog"!
So has the late Fox-Talbot got the the most analogue camera in the world or is that Nicephore Niepce?Most probably, the less autofocus, the less auto film advance, the less fancy metering, the more analog
So has the late Fox-Talbot got the the most analogue camera in the world or is that Nicephore Niepce?
pentaxuser
Regarding the F6: I suspect that Thom Hogan's take is likely accurate. Specifically, that the F6 has not been discontinued, but is no longer being sold and distributed in Europe because several components for the F6 do not meet newer EU regulations.
Billy's post suggests that the discontinuation was specific to a limited range and not to the model per se. So the conclusion I would draw if that future sales in Europe will depend on Nikon's decision as to what it does about the EU's position. Presumably only if Nikon chooses not to address the EU's concerns will the position be that there will be no future sales or no compromise can be reached ?
pentaxuser
I don't see how that particular idiom - "over the top" - applies here. There was nothing "extreme" in that post.
Moreover, it does nothing to refute Hogan's supposition - which I find plausible - that production of the F6 likely has not been discontinued, only distribution and sales in Europe. That the only actual reports of the F6 being discontinued have thus far come from Europe [which have been repeated ad nauseum by various blogs around the globe] lends credence IMO to that supposition.
Thanks, so was the recall Nikon's decision due to its mistake in the value of DBP in a specific range. Presumably this means that because the DBP exceeds the regulated EU permitted quantity it has to alter this for all its F6s as it would not make sense or would it, to have a production process that tailored this quantity of DBP differently for different markets?It is a specific range of cameras and the issue is resolved by a recall. It has nothing to do with any possible discontinuation at all.
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