John Michael Winterbourne

Personally, I wasn't as sure as the yardcoyote, so I took one of my nikon dslrs with just a single 24mm lens on an important day out for me - Westonbirt arboretum in southern england had the best ...

a) I don't believe you.... b) if you're right, I could make a killing with all the FF pentax mountable glass I've picked up over the last decade or so; and which according to your logic will now be ...

I hadn't realised that the Sigma 12-24 came in Pentax mpount - they are available new from WEX photographic at GBP429.  I was very happy with my Nikon version on my D700.  Got lots of honourable ...

Looks like you missed this bit: "I turn down requests to do wedding photography because I think I am inadequate, not because I think my equipment is." Doesn't seem to me that Barry is going to need ...

Sorry Chuxter, I think that's a dodgy analogy - who can really tell how a brand new pair of shoes will feel once they've been worn a while and broken in to your feet's peculiarities?  I certainly ...

I think the following, shamelessly pinched from the web after about 2 minutes of research, covers that particular question - and because this answer is in response to a question about the ...

Good advice.  To the OP - try leaving the "Flektogon" out of your ebay searches, just go Carl Zeiss Jena 35/2.4.  You'll find a lot of lenses with 'Prakticar' in the name.  It's in Praktica ...

I posted a similar thing about the weight elsewhere in the thread.  But I just tried my Sigma 8-16mm on my Nikon D700, and it only starts to fill the frame at about 14mm.  It's not so much ...

Not sure if I'm replying to Guidenet or Anastigmat, but here goes:

"Canon and Nikon have to respond to such an attractive camera at such a reasonable price."

No, sorry but I don't think they do. ...

"Making a "Limited" body does sound like a good idea to me, but it's likely that Nikons limited success with the Df might make Ricoh execs think twice." Really interesting - as soon as I saw the ...

decrepitdɪˈkrɛpɪt/ adjective adjective: decrepit: worn out or ruined because of age or neglect. There's nothing "decrepit" about any of my legacy Pentax lenses, thanks very much. Maybe my irony ...

In theory, yes - the difference in flange distance between the Pentax and Nikon cameras means that using Pentax lenses on Nikon usually means using a correcting lens to get infinity focus (or some ...

Yes, but "near wide open" on that lens is about f/4.5 which could be a bit restrictive if you were after as narrow a DoF as you could get?  There's a load of discussions out there about how good ...

Tom, I've enjoyed it so far but I think quite early on it was clear that were at least two major interest groups here:  those whose main interest was in getting modern AF lenses to work in a ...

Mark, no, I did not mean output size, I meant the size of the sensor in the camera the OP says he's wanting to drop a couple of Ks on - "Full frame ** " or "Crop sensor" Nikon DSLR. I forget what ...

I might as well chip in again here, because you completely missed the point I was trying to make in my first reply to you up at the top of the thread - I guess I could/should have made it clearer ...

I may have slightly misunderstood the question, but my first thought was that the OP was asking about non-Nikon lenses, and my first thought immediately went to Tamron Adaptall tele zooms - there ...

I used to have a D60 which I used for years in conjunction with a D700.  If only I'd known it wasn't a "real" camera..... You've only mentioned Nikon gear, but I can go with that to start with.  It ...

Hi - yes, congrats from me too. Go enjoy. As Guidenet said, Nikon user manuals are available free to download from their site - I even think they've got over the "you can download it but not print ...

I knew you'd take it in the spirit it was meant! I would have left it there except that you mentioned the Tamron Adaptall system, which I think was aimed at people who wanted good glass but didn't ...