Bought me a Nikon D40 a couple of weeks ago and loving it for my hiking camera. Light weight, simple and great photos. The price has gone up and had to pay around 65 dollars for one with a shutter count of around 8000. Shooting with the Nikon 35mm f/1.8 DX lens. Can’t complain.
Mostly sitting on a bench around 4:00 pm by myself on a Saturday. I think Americans (North) are bored with life. Or maybe i am old and bored and life kind of sucks with getting old. What, I’m old? How in the hell did that happen? Life goes by really fast and if you are young reading this, then go for your dreams or at least do something interesting for a living.
So on the passenger-side of the car (below), an older overweight lady was sitting half in and half out of the back seat of the car, with the door open. She had a big smile on her face. I said,”I like your car.” She pointed to her son and said, “that’s his car and he likes it.” I took a picture. He flicked a butt into the street and did a u-turn with a new sense of pride. It’s a beat-up classic that is still running! Will a Tesla ever be a classic or just a relic stripped of its resources in a junk yard under discarded solar panels?
It’s easy to make fun of the cyber truck. But there is not another truck that looks like it. Ugly, yet a beauty at certain angles. Certainly a useless vehicle, yet worth a picture. Jealous?
Not much is happening in May. Lots of rain in Tennessee. Been hiking a little with a Nikon D90 that someone gave me. But mostly I take out my Nikon D700. The Nikon D700 is not bad for hiking when I attach a light weight lens like the Nikon 50mm f/1.8 D.
I’ve noticed that now I prefer the pictures from a full frame (FX) camera than the smaller crop of a Dx sensor. When I look at my DX sensor photos now, something seems odd about the photos. Not sure why.
My favorite Nikon Dx camera of all time was the Nikon D200. But I hated the battery life of the Nikon D200. Then I owned the Nikon D7100 which had good battery life, but for some reason my Nikon D7100 drained the battery when not in use. Annoying! My current Nikon D700, Nikon D90 and Nikon D70 have excellent battery life.
If you take the Nikon D700 and attach the Nikon 50mm f/1.4
NIKKOR-S Auto (Non-AI). What do you get? Magic! Personally, I think the lens looks beautiful. Very high quality build. It weighs about 306 grams.
But how do you attach a Non-AI lens to the Nikon D700? Well, you hack the aperture ring with a file. Just sweat and a fine file. It’s a nail-biting process for an amateur. But if you take your time you will end up with a magical lens! Search the web for instructions! It’s been a long time since I did the conversion. Doing the conversion with a file took about 3 hours. John White can convert them professionally here https://sites.google.com/view/aiconversions/home
If you can nail the focus of this lens, it’s super sharp. The focus ring is pretty stiff on my personal lens. Out of the box, the colors are very pleasing for the Nikon 50mm f/1/4 Nikkor-S Auto. I believe I paid less than 60 dollars for this lens a few years ago.
