Thread: Which DSLR?

This forum has been almost all Canon, but I’m a Nikon fan as well
I have a Nikon D60 with the Nikkor 18 – 200 VR lens, its excellent, but I’d like to trade up to the new Nikon D90 and keep the 18 – 200 lens.
I started with the 18- 55, and 55 – 200 VR lenses, but always found I had the wrong lens, and didn’t like carrying both.
Sometime I may get a 50 mm f1.4 for low light, and a macro (micro in Nikon terms), but in the mean time the 18 – 200 VR will do almost everything without a bag full of glass.
I've now got the entire family back into photography.
The website of Ken Rockwall is well worth looking at for information and informative comment on Canon and Nikon DSLR's
http://www.kenrockwell.com/index.htm


Greg

Originally Posted by greg-g

This forum has been almost all Canon, but I’m a Nikon fan as well
I have a Nikon D60 with the Nikkor 18 – 200 VR lens, its excellent, but I’d like to trade up to the new Nikon D90 and keep the 18 – 200 lens.
I started with the 18- 55, and 55 – 200 VR lenses, but always found I had the wrong lens, and didn’t like carrying both.
Sometime I may get a 50 mm f1.4 for low light, and a macro (micro in Nikon terms), but in the mean time the 18 – 200 VR will do almost everything without a bag full of glass.
I've now got the entire family back into photography.
The website of Ken Rockwall is well worth looking at for information and informative comment on Canon and Nikon DSLR's
KenRockwell.com


Greg

hey greg, if you look at the poll in this section you will see there is just as many nikons as canons here
this is coming from a nikon owner

Originally Posted by dullbird

hey greg, if you look at the poll in this section you will see there is just as many nikons as canons here
this is coming from a nikon owner

Which poll?

I've just bought my first DSLR. However, as I already owned two Pentax AF SLRs (SFx and SF7) with two Pentax Takumar zoom lenses a 28-90 and a 70-135, plus a fairly powerful hot-shoe Pentax AF400FTZ swivel head flash, and, being cheap, I bought a second-hand *ist D with a Pentax 28-90 AF zoom for $280.

Unfortunately, the 1.6 factor makes the lenses a bit long for everyday use. They interface very nicely to the *ist D.

The lens that came with the *ist D is a 28-90. The *ist D has a pentaprism viewfinder, not a pentamirror and seems quite bright.

I might get an M42-K mount adaptor to try with my old Takumar lenses from my Spotmatic.

While the *ist D is supposed to be TTL compatible with the AF40FTZ flash, it really doesn't seem to work that well with it. On auto mode the flash over-exposes quite badly indoors. I have yet to play with it to learn how to best use it.