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Nikon is backwards
https://www.nickcarverphotography.co...-is-backwards/
Now I know it's not just me that's annoyed by this. In fact more than annoyed, I once BROKE a Nikon camera I'd rented, costing me £200, simply by trying to attach the lens in the correct clockwise manner. The rental company was not amused. |
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Nikon is backwards
On 27/01/2019 22:32, Commander Kinsey wrote:
https://www.nickcarverphotography.co...-is-backwards/ Now I know it's not just me that's annoyed by this.* In fact more than annoyed, I once BROKE a Nikon camera I'd rented, costing me £200, simply by trying to attach the lens in the correct clockwise manner.* The rental company was not amused. Agree with you about the bayonet, but FWIW the Fuji zoom goes the same way as the Nikon. Clockwise is the positive direction, going out. |
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On Sun, 27 Jan 2019 22:52:38 -0000, newshound wrote:
On 27/01/2019 22:32, Commander Kinsey wrote: https://www.nickcarverphotography.co...-is-backwards/ Now I know it's not just me that's annoyed by this. In fact more than annoyed, I once BROKE a Nikon camera I'd rented, costing me £200, simply by trying to attach the lens in the correct clockwise manner. The rental company was not amused. Agree with you about the bayonet, but FWIW the Fuji zoom goes the same way as the Nikon. Clockwise is the positive direction, going out. Never had a Fuji DSLR, but I won't be buying Fuji since two compact cameras I bought have nowhere near the MP they claim. |
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Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Sun, 27 Jan 2019 22:52:38 -0000, newshound wrote: On 27/01/2019 22:32, Commander Kinsey wrote: https://www.nickcarverphotography.co...-is-backwards/ Now I know it's not just me that's annoyed by this. In fact more than annoyed, I once BROKE a Nikon camera I'd rented, costing me £200, simply by trying to attach the lens in the correct clockwise manner. The rental company was not amused. Agree with you about the bayonet, but FWIW the Fuji zoom goes the same way as the Nikon. Clockwise is the positive direction, going out. Never had a Fuji DSLR, but I won't be buying Fuji since two compact cameras I bought have nowhere near the MP they claim. Which compact cameras, and you know this how? -- Regards, Savageduck |
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On Mon, 28 Jan 2019 00:19:11 -0000, wrote:
Commander Kinsey wrote: On Sun, 27 Jan 2019 22:52:38 -0000, newshound wrote: On 27/01/2019 22:32, Commander Kinsey wrote: https://www.nickcarverphotography.co...-is-backwards/ Now I know it's not just me that's annoyed by this. In fact more than annoyed, I once BROKE a Nikon camera I'd rented, costing me £200, simply by trying to attach the lens in the correct clockwise manner. The rental company was not amused. Agree with you about the bayonet, but FWIW the Fuji zoom goes the same way as the Nikon. Clockwise is the positive direction, going out. Never had a Fuji DSLR, but I won't be buying Fuji since two compact cameras I bought have nowhere near the MP they claim. Which compact cameras, The Finepix S1000FD and the similar one made before that which claimed 6MP. and you know this how? By looking at the pictures they produced obviously. |
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Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Mon, 28 Jan 2019 00:19:11 -0000, wrote: Commander Kinsey wrote: On Sun, 27 Jan 2019 22:52:38 -0000, newshound wrote: On 27/01/2019 22:32, Commander Kinsey wrote: https://www.nickcarverphotography.co...-is-backwards/ Now I know it's not just me that's annoyed by this. In fact more than annoyed, I once BROKE a Nikon camera I'd rented, costing me £200, simply by trying to attach the lens in the correct clockwise manner. The rental company was not amused. Agree with you about the bayonet, but FWIW the Fuji zoom goes the same way as the Nikon. Clockwise is the positive direction, going out. Never had a Fuji DSLR, but I won't be buying Fuji since two compact cameras I bought have nowhere near the MP they claim. Which compact cameras, The Finepix S1000FD and the similar one made before that which claimed 6MP. and you know this how? By looking at the pictures they produced obviously. Looking at the pictures they produced will not tell you anything about the sensor, or its specs. A more thorough examination of the image files is going to be needed. Besides, you are talking about a long defunct camera. -- Regards, Savageduck |
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On Sun, 27 Jan 2019 18:19:11 -0600, Savageduck
wrote: Commander Kinsey wrote: On Sun, 27 Jan 2019 22:52:38 -0000, newshound wrote: On 27/01/2019 22:32, Commander Kinsey wrote: https://www.nickcarverphotography.co...-is-backwards/ Now I know it's not just me that's annoyed by this. In fact more than annoyed, I once BROKE a Nikon camera I'd rented, costing me £200, simply by trying to attach the lens in the correct clockwise manner. The rental company was not amused. Agree with you about the bayonet, but FWIW the Fuji zoom goes the same way as the Nikon. Clockwise is the positive direction, going out. Never had a Fuji DSLR, but I won't be buying Fuji since two compact cameras I bought have nowhere near the MP they claim. Which compact cameras, and you know this how? My "car camera" is a Fuji FinePix F600EXR, and it's the worst buying decision I've made in the area of photography. I bought it when there were not as many choices of compacts that have manual control and shoot RAW as there are now. And, I made the mistake of buying a camera online without handling it in person. The local stores didn't have enough of a selection. The zoom is jerky and extremely difficult to set to frame a photo. Given enough time, I can frame the scene but that makes it worthless for street photography. OK for a static scene, but that's not the type of photo I go after. Shutter response is slow so any moving target is blind luck. It's not good at low-light, but the RAW frame can sometimes be rescued. The reviews for the camera painted a good picture, but they were about image quality. If I photograph a tree, I get a very sharp image. I'm just not interested in the scenes that the Fuji is good at. Our daughter is going to Greece in March, and doesn't want to take her Nikon DSLR. She'd like to get a compact for the trip. She borrowed my Fuji for a couple of days and decided she'd be better off with a cheap P&S. No RAW, but she'd rather have an easy-to-use P&S without that, so she's doing the right thing and checking out cameras in stores that she can handle before buying. -- Tony Cooper - Orlando, Florida |
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On Mon, 28 Jan 2019 01:03:18 -0000, Tony Cooper wrote:
On Sun, 27 Jan 2019 18:19:11 -0600, Savageduck wrote: Commander Kinsey wrote: On Sun, 27 Jan 2019 22:52:38 -0000, newshound wrote: On 27/01/2019 22:32, Commander Kinsey wrote: https://www.nickcarverphotography.co...-is-backwards/ Now I know it's not just me that's annoyed by this. In fact more than annoyed, I once BROKE a Nikon camera I'd rented, costing me £200, simply by trying to attach the lens in the correct clockwise manner. The rental company was not amused. Agree with you about the bayonet, but FWIW the Fuji zoom goes the same way as the Nikon. Clockwise is the positive direction, going out. Never had a Fuji DSLR, but I won't be buying Fuji since two compact cameras I bought have nowhere near the MP they claim. Which compact cameras, and you know this how? My "car camera" is a Fuji FinePix F600EXR, and it's the worst buying decision I've made in the area of photography. I bought it when there were not as many choices of compacts that have manual control and shoot RAW as there are now. And, I made the mistake of buying a camera online without handling it in person. The local stores didn't have enough of a selection. Oh dear, it seems they still haven't begun making decent cameras then, that model is newer than both of mine. The zoom is jerky and extremely difficult to set to frame a photo. Yip, my older Fujis had the same problem, the subject had usually moved away (an animal for example) by the time the bloody camera had focused. Given enough time, I can frame the scene but that makes it worthless for street photography. OK for a static scene, but that's not the type of photo I go after. Shutter response is slow so any moving target is blind luck. It's not good at low-light, but the RAW frame can sometimes be rescued. The reviews for the camera painted a good picture, but they were about image quality. If I photograph a tree, I get a very sharp image. I'm just not interested in the scenes that the Fuji is good at. I don't even get a sharp image of a tree. Mine claims 10MP, but viewing it any higher than about 4MP gives an unsharp image. Our daughter is going to Greece in March, and doesn't want to take her Nikon DSLR. She'd like to get a compact for the trip. She borrowed my Fuji for a couple of days and decided she'd be better off with a cheap P&S. No RAW, but she'd rather have an easy-to-use P&S without that, so she's doing the right thing and checking out cameras in stores that she can handle before buying. I regret selling my Canon DSLR. I thought a compact camera would be easier to take hillwalking etc, but the picture quality sux. I got sharper images from the Canon 6MP camera than from the Fuji 10MP camera. It's like everything nowadays, the number quoted on the box is meaningless. I bought some rechargeable batteries that claimed 2500mAh. I dared to actually test them and found they were 600mAh. I got 100% money back and got to keep them. An obvious fake piece of crap. I use them to power my electric toothbrush, they're utterly useless for cameras. |
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Tony Cooper wrote:
On Sun, 27 Jan 2019 18:19:11 -0600, Savageduck wrote: Commander Kinsey wrote: On Sun, 27 Jan 2019 22:52:38 -0000, newshound wrote: On 27/01/2019 22:32, Commander Kinsey wrote: https://www.nickcarverphotography.co...-is-backwards/ Now I know it's not just me that's annoyed by this. In fact more than annoyed, I once BROKE a Nikon camera I'd rented, costing me £200, simply by trying to attach the lens in the correct clockwise manner. The rental company was not amused. Agree with you about the bayonet, but FWIW the Fuji zoom goes the same way as the Nikon. Clockwise is the positive direction, going out. Never had a Fuji DSLR, but I won't be buying Fuji since two compact cameras I bought have nowhere near the MP they claim. Which compact cameras, and you know this how? My "car camera" is a Fuji FinePix F600EXR, and it's the worst buying decision I've made in the area of photography. I bought it when there were not as many choices of compacts that have manual control and shoot RAW as there are now. And, I made the mistake of buying a camera online without handling it in person. The local stores didn't have enough of a selection. Another discontinued camera with technology Fujifilm has long abandoned. Back when that camera was available there were much better compacts available. I would have suggested a Canon G12. The zoom is jerky and extremely difficult to set to frame a photo. Given enough time, I can frame the scene but that makes it worthless for street photography. OK for a static scene, but that's not the type of photo I go after. Shutter response is slow so any moving target is blind luck. It's not good at low-light, but the RAW frame can sometimes be rescued. You chose the wrong tool for the job. You should have got better advise, or done some deeper research. The reviews for the camera painted a good picture, but they were about image quality. If I photograph a tree, I get a very sharp image. I'm just not interested in the scenes that the Fuji is good at. So, what did DxO have to say about it? ;-) Back in 2011-2012 I doubt if I would have considered a Fujifilm. Our daughter is going to Greece in March, and doesn't want to take her Nikon DSLR. She'd like to get a compact for the trip. She borrowed my Fuji for a couple of days and decided she'd be better off with a cheap P&S. No RAW, but she'd rather have an easy-to-use P&S without that, so she's doing the right thing and checking out cameras in stores that she can handle before buying. There are compacts which shoot RAW if she looks further. -- Regards, Savageduck |
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On 2019-01-27 17:32, Commander Kinsey wrote:
https://www.nickcarverphotography.co...-is-backwards/ Now I know it's not just me that's annoyed by this.* In fact more than annoyed, I once BROKE a Nikon camera I'd rented, costing me £200, simply by trying to attach the lens in the correct clockwise manner.* The rental company was not amused. When I used to rent cameras on occasion I would have them show me the ins and outs of the camera. That way you know what is correct for that camera (or other tool). -- "2/3 of Donald Trump's wives were immigrants. Proof that we need immigrants to do jobs that most Americans wouldn't do." - unknown protester |
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