conversion of film slr to dig slr

On Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:20:54 -0400, savvo
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On 2008-08-29, pluto wrote:
On Fri, 29 Aug 2008 06:37:57 -0400, savvo

_PLEASE STOP QUOTING THE REFERENCES_
noted with tremidty of Bigstick watching.


You don't need to 'adapt' AI lenses, they're already manual focus and
work as-is on the D200.

thanks i will ask around the nikon suppliers for a first hand opinion which more
likely will be that i would have to use their new lenses ;-))





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On Sat, 30 Aug 2008 02:26:59 +1000, Noons in this
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Of course there will be film for a loooooong time!
The only ones claiming there won't are the
peddlers or scammers of digital rubbish, trying
to drum up business using the "pending event" technique.


indeed, Noons,
this is the business scenario in the east.
"planned obsolescence"





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On Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:23:55 GMT, "Ken Hart1" in this
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Considering the extreme number of working 35mm film cameras extant, the
likelihood of 35mm film completely dissappearing is very slim. Many people
are still buying film and shooting film. Eventually, we will see the less
popular film types go away, but the common types will be around a long time.
Every WalMart, Walgreens, and CVS drugstore has a $100K film developing
machine installed. With that much capital investment by major corporations,
there will be film to run through those machines for a long while.


thanks "Ken Hart1" for the good news from your side.

i am in malaysia where even kodak has gone "underground" to concentrate on large
format film plates, x ray films to hospitals. Japanese film companies like fuji,
et al, have moved out their film developing and printing machines on hire
purches to concentrate in a few big cities at a very high cost.

i remember way back 10 years ago, i had to buy films by the dozens from one
company before going out for my shooting forays.

who can afford even 3r prints at us 30 cents each?


youngsters here are using mobilephone camera and you can see their works in
facebook.



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On Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:46:22 -0400, Lizzie Saxe-Coburg
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thanks Lizzie Saxe-Coburg for the fact that this is a moderated group.

if my asking for the url froom savvo constitutes a breach to the groups tos,
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On Sat, 30 Aug 2008 00:50:04 +1000, Noons in this
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thanks Noons for your inputs

Exactly. The D200, D300, D700, D2(x) and D3 can all use AI
and AI-S lenses, as well as all the AF models. That's
with metering. Without it even my D80 works fine with
anything since AI. That's since the 60's.

with modifications to the rings ae ai of course?


If Sony, one of the two major sensor manufacturers and a market-leader
in pro and consumer video equipment can't get its DSLR market share
out of the single figure %ages, despite a head start from buying
Minolta's expertise and plant, I'm very sure Nokia will be very happy
to stay out of the bear pit.


indeed. but Sony is inching in, that's for sure. and it takes
time to build up momentum: once they sort out their range
into a coherent lot, things will move fine. It's only this
year they have had more than one model, while the others
have been at it for nearly a decade!


yes, i was in tsukuba city, tokyo in 1989. sony was the "anchor" tenant of this
research city. at that time sony was completing the pioneer model of
videol-radio phone.






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