jonoslack
Active member
Hard Luck Amin
Incidentally, you may be set on the brightscreen, but I'm finding focusing really easy on mine - even in pretty poor light.
I hope it gets sorted out soon.
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D700 - Finally a Digital F100! (fun pictures with D700)
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Incidentally, you may be set on the brightscreen, but I'm finding focusing really easy on mine - even in pretty poor light.
I hope it gets sorted out soon.
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asabet
Guest
Thanks Jono. I agree that the focus confirmation light works very well. I found it to be both more accurate and precise than a typical microprism/split screen for focusing on static objects. However, I enjoy seeing the image snap in and out of focus on a nice coarse grind screen. Unlike most folks, I don't like the rangefinder-esque quality of having everything appear in focus. I'm also not convinced that the focus confirmation lights will work well for moving objects (ie, my kids). The microprism is effective for that application, at least in my hands. Finally, I don't enjoy having to keep an eye on those lights in the bottom left corner. I'd love if they could optionally overlay the dot and two arrows at the location of the selected focus bracket.
Despite the above, for reasons I don't want to go into in detail at this time, I did end up asking Brightscreen to leave the custom screen out of my replacement D700. I've decided to go with the stock Nikon screen/focusing light approach. Also just ordered a 135/2.0 Ai-S to give those lights a workout
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The good news is that I have plenty of work work and family work to occupy me until my new D700 arrives. I trust that Brightscreen will ship my new D700 as soon as they receive the one I shipped out today. Preliminary impressions of both the D700 and Zeiss 50 macro were extremely positive.
All the best,
Amin
Despite the above, for reasons I don't want to go into in detail at this time, I did end up asking Brightscreen to leave the custom screen out of my replacement D700. I've decided to go with the stock Nikon screen/focusing light approach. Also just ordered a 135/2.0 Ai-S to give those lights a workout
.The good news is that I have plenty of work work and family work to occupy me until my new D700 arrives
. I trust that Brightscreen will ship my new D700 as soon as they receive the one I shipped out today. Preliminary impressions of both the D700 and Zeiss 50 macro were extremely positive.All the best,
Amin
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jonoslack
Active member
HI Amin
I never use the focus confirmation - you can see the screen snap in and out of focus really easily on the basic screen. I'd much rather rely on that.
I do play a little game where I focus manually, and then half press the shutter to see if the focus confirmation is right - it nearly always is. My criticism is that the focus confirmation is to optimistic, I'm pretty sure I can focus more accurately without it.
I hate split screens / microprisms - may be easier to focus, but I find it impossible to compose with them.
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Paul.R.Lindqvist
Guest
Amen to that, i really dont need a split/microprism for the D3 VF, its so clean and big that one easily see whats in focus or not.
jonoslack
Active member
HI Paul
Absolutely, and although the D700 isn't quite 100% like the D3, I really didn't notice a step down in quality or brightness focusing is a breeze (and it's really nice that it's not connected with focus points)
Guy Mancuso
Administrator, Instructor
Have to agree from my very limited time with the d700 with both of Terry's CV lenses focusing was a breeze and did not even look at the green light. A lot better than the D300 to manually focus.
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asabet
Guest
I hope that I have the same experience. I've yet to see a modern camera with a steep parabola of focus in the default screen, and I've been told that the default D3 screen is slightly inferior to the Canon Ee-S in this respect. All I know for sure is that I was much more accurate/precise using the focusing lights in the D700 than I have been with the Ee-S screen in the 5D.
I only had the D700 for a single evening, but my experience was that the slightest nudge of the manual focus caused the focus confirmation to complain. Sounds like you have sharper eyes than I. If I feel as you do once I have the default screen, I will be one happy customer.
Regards,
Amin
jonoslack
Active member
I don't know about that - but taking a picture with a piggy-back is quite a challenge.:ROTFL:
Very nice Jono. Between my Scottish wife and business, I've spent a bit of time in the UK, and am starting to wish I'd traveled more in your neck of the woods vs. London and north of the 'border'. You picked a nice spot to live sir.
Getting more and more respect for the 70-300.
Getting more and more respect for the 70-300.
jonoslack
Active member
Thank you Rob - my wife is 1/4 Scottish, so I can identify with all your troubles :ROTFL:
If you don't use telephoto all that much, that 70-300 is a bit of a no-brainer really. We're off to the Cambridge Folk Festival this evening, I don't want to travel heavily, so I think I'll take:
25 ZF
40 Ultron
58 Nokton
70-300 (well, you do have to take a few pictures of the artists!).
It IS lovely around here, but it's rather an acquired taste - flat - really flat, there's almost no landscape to speak of, so you have to rely on trees. When we first moved here 20 years ago I had been living in London, and I just didn't see how to take pictures - nowadays I'm doing a bit better, but it's still a bit of a challenge.
Cornwall (where I was brought up, and where we have a house) is quite different - so beautiful . . . but then I sometimes finds it hard to actually say anything . . . . I guess it isn't meant to be easy, is it!
jonoslack
Active member
Hmm, I hope for your sake that I don't have sharper eyes! Mine used to be perfect, but nowadays I'm quite long sighted - I've taken to contact lenses for photography - which does help. Focusing on the default screen still seems easy though. Let's hope you're the happy customer.
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sebasco
Guest
Here's a pic of the George Eastman House taken today while on a walk. It was about to storm. Behind me it was sunny and ahead of me it was threatening.
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asabet
Guest
Received my replacement D700 today, and so far so good . I only had 30 minutes or so to go outside after work. Just took some in-camera JPEG snaps of the kids. While waiting for the D700, I picked up a Nikon 135mm f/2.0 Ai-S used for just $350, and I am really impressed with this lens! Here's my f/2.0 test shot:
Jono, you were right. The default screen is pretty nice for focusing!
One with the Zeiss 50/2 macro:
. I only had 30 minutes or so to go outside after work. Just took some in-camera JPEG snaps of the kids. While waiting for the D700, I picked up a Nikon 135mm f/2.0 Ai-S used for just $350, and I am really impressed with this lens! Here's my f/2.0 test shot:
Jono, you were right. The default screen is pretty nice for focusing!
One with the Zeiss 50/2 macro:
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asabet
Guest
Thanks HelenAside from the shots being OUTSTANDING
I can't believe how the Boys have Grown Up.....They Look Great!
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!The younger one Philip is definitely a rascal. His first complete sentence was "You're not the boss" directed at me. Everyone says he is exactly as I was at that age (3 years old). My mother loves to tell me "Amin, payback is a bitch"
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