1/12/2006: Skins for Eid

[xoxoxoBruce]

Oow, thank you, thank you, 3foot! Film and photo paper....good ammo.

[Kitsune]

Very strange -- film was a concern.

Ah, my favorite medium has died, animal protien and all.

[glatt]

Originally Posted by Kitsune

Ah, my favorite medium has died, animal protien and all.

That's sad, but on the other hand, I haven't put a roll of film in my Old Nikon FE in at least 5 years. Maybe more. All digital since then. Film is too damn expensive.

Now if they would just make a digital SLR that would take my old manual focus Nikon lenses. The Nikon D50 looks promising, but the exposure won't work with my old lenses. I hate having several hundred dollars worth of optics just sitting on the shelf in my closet. Come on Nikon!

[xoxoxoBruce]

I'm with you there. Many $k in Nikkor lenses gathering dust.
For me it wasn’t the film but the difficulty and inconvenience of developing and QUALITY printing.
Of course it’s hard to beat the convenience of resizing and emailing without having to write a literate letter to accompany them.

[cbane]

Originally Posted by glatt

That's sad, but on the other hand, I haven't put a roll of film in my Old Nikon FE in at least 5 years. Maybe more. All digital since then. Film is too damn expensive.

Now if they would just make a digital SLR that would take my old manual focus Nikon lenses. The Nikon D50 looks promising, but the exposure won't work with my old lenses. I hate having several hundred dollars worth of optics just sitting on the shelf in my closet. Come on Nikon!

The new D200 has some support for AI lenses. You have to tell the camera what the max. aperature and focal length are, and it only works in some modes. From the table on dpreview (look for "Lens compatibility"), you can use manual or aperature priority exposure, and "color matrix" (I don't know how that's different than regular matrix metering), as well as center-weighted and spot metering modes.

However, the D200 is much more expensive that the D50 ($1700 vs. ~$600), so unless you have lots of money invested in lenses, it's not really worth it to get a D200 just for this feature.