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D50 w/o DOF...work around?
Hi all,
The D50 fits my skill level, budget, and hands pretty well, and I am all set to spend some $ - but I as I am interested in photography as art, I suspect I might miss the DOF preview. So, what are my work around options, other then the D70s? Does the LCD help? Can I buy a primary lens with an aperture ring and stop-down myself? or ?? Thanks, Tom |
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D50 w/o DOF...work around?
Tom (was aName) wrote:
Hi all, The D50 fits my skill level, budget, and hands pretty well, and I am all set to spend some $ - but I as I am interested in photography as art, I suspect I might miss the DOF preview. So, what are my work around options, other then the D70s? Does the LCD help? Can I buy a primary lens with an aperture ring and stop-down myself? or ?? Thanks, Tom Set the aperture, take a test photo and then view it to see it you have too much, too little or the right amount of DOF. The preview gets pretty dark with higher f-numbers anyway. Scott |
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D50 w/o DOF...work around?
Tom (was aName) wrote:
...I as I am interested in photography as art, I suspect I might miss the DOF preview. I seldom use mine on a D70, as mentioned it gets dark so hard to see anyways. So, what are my work around options, other then the D70s? Does the LCD help? The LCD is good for evaluating the look and size of out of focus circles in the background but not so good for evaluating sharpness on a D70 it doesn't go to full zoom. Can I buy a primary lens with an aperture ring and stop-down myself? or ?? No this won't work. Only very ancient lenses work that way & those would need some kind of adapter and wouldn't meter. Modern lenses only stop down at the moment of taking the exposure and a microchip is needed to tell the camera what the range of the aperture is for calculating metering. If you have the luxury of tethering a laptop to the camera with Nikon's $100 Capture software, that's an extraordinary way to see how your images are coming out. I have an old tripod and I put some brackets on it for holding a laptop, mostly for doing time lapse movies but it's really amazing how much more you can see of the image full size. You can control all the camera's settings from the computer, experimenting for just the right effect. If nothing else this is a great way to learn. -- Paul Furman http://www.edgehill.net/1 Bay Natives http://www.baynatives.com |
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(thanks) D50 w/o DOF...work around?
(Top quoting :-O) ... Thanks both for your information...I'll take DOF
preview off my "Please-NO-regrets" list and I like the notion of using the "laptop-viewfinder" for learning and near real time tweaking. - Tom Paul Furman wrote: Tom (was aName) wrote: ...I as I am interested in photography as art, I suspect I might miss the DOF preview. I seldom use mine on a D70, as mentioned it gets dark so hard to see anyways. So, what are my work around options, other then the D70s? Does the LCD help? The LCD is good for evaluating the look and size of out of focus circles in the background but not so good for evaluating sharpness on a D70 it doesn't go to full zoom. Can I buy a primary lens with an aperture ring and stop-down myself? or ?? No this won't work. Only very ancient lenses work that way & those would need some kind of adapter and wouldn't meter. Modern lenses only stop down at the moment of taking the exposure and a microchip is needed to tell the camera what the range of the aperture is for calculating metering. Yep, that was my guess, having read enough to suspect, but without experience to know what I might be missing. If you have the luxury of tethering a laptop to the camera with Nikon's $100 Capture software, that's an extraordinary way to see how your images are coming out. I have an old tripod and I put some brackets on it for holding a laptop, mostly for doing time lapse movies but it's really amazing how much more you can see of the image full size. You can control all the camera's settings from the computer, experimenting for just the right effect. If nothing else this is a great way to learn. |
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