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Just won a "Make Offer" on a BIN combo deal for a used (scarry) Nikon D750 fx camera with a whole bunch of extras, including two lenses. Looks to be in really fine condition with no obvious wear on the control button markings, and seller says it is "Fully functional with light signs of use" and has over 99% positive feedback on a few thousand sales, so hopefully it will be as they say!?!?

Pictures on the listing all look good, so fingers (and other anatomical parts) crossed that this comes in as advertised and is not a lemon of some sort.

Long been wanting to go to a full frame 35mm digital camera that can use all my old lenses from back in the days of film. Have been getting by with just a little pocket Canon A1100 that has actually been great, but it really loses image quality with any zoom, and I used to love telephoto shots! Hopefully this new addition will help my video production as well, but not sure I'm of the proper pay-grade to even consider using this thing, as the "Owner's Manual" Nikon puts out for it is something like 538 pages long. Likely I'll never actually read the whole thing, but even if I did, it seems unlikely that I'd remember even 0.001% of what it told me. Perhaps this will end up being something of a mistake (an expensive one at that), but I'm certainly not getting any younger, and I have a fine assortment of nice Nikkor lenses that have just been sitting in the closet all these years, so, here goes .... I hope!!!

Of course, it should go without saying that my only intended use of this new photo equipment is to take pictures and videos of my engines so that I can post them here on the Forum ......    ;c)

That pocket Canon was really pretty awesome, within its range of capabilities, as are most phones nowadays!

I'm just hoping that having spent decades with Nikon film systems, Nikkormat FTN, Nikon F3/T, FE & FM, in the long ago, that this new (to me) Digital Camera will somehow seem sort of familiar, at least enough so that I can get some photography done to my satisfaction?!?!

The new iterations of Digital SLRs are going mirrorless, and that trend seems to be the direction they are all now heading. That being the case, I suspect that the long-standing Nikon F-mount for lenses is going the way of the dinosaurs really soon, so it was sort of a case of jump in now or lose the chance to use my old lenses (old friends), or so it seemed.

Hey, I am a RETRO kind of guy after all, don't ya know!!!

Sounds fun Danial, I do hope it's all you want it to be. my understanding of Nicon cameras is that all lenses are interchangeable.

Well, yes and no, but yes, the F-mount will allow all the old lenses to be "mounted on" all but the newest Mirrorless Z-series of cameras if I'm getting this info correctly?! However, there are issues that arise with older lenses mounted on newer bodies, as things like auto-focus and f-stop selection are incompatible to non-existent on the older equipment, but most of the newer bodies do still have a "manual" option that allow the use of the older lenses in the original manual manner. At least that is how I understand it currently, so hopefully I'll not be unpleasantly surprised upon arrival!?!?

Good luck, brilliant camera I had a 750 before selling and getting a 850 and then selling that and all my F lens and moving to mirrorless.

You will be suitably impressed with the 750 Daniel.

Aye, Jim mate ..... that is very reassuring to hear. Especially coming from someone I know to be an excellent photographer!

Thank you for offering those observations!

Truth is though, having been a long time Nikon man myself, and having extensively read the reviews and specification material on the D750 and others, I am confident that the camera is all that I hope it will be, as is true with nearly all other Nikons that I've ever come in contact with.

The two concerns that I do have is first and foremost, the actual condition of the camera that I have purchased. If it is in sound functional condition without too many shutter clicks to its credit, then all is well and good on that front. So, then my next concern is if I can actually "learn" this new piece of technology well enough to be able to produce photos of a quality that I have long come to expect of myself. It will be an interesting and no doubt steep learning curve ahead for yours truly .... for certain and for sure!!!

This is "Great" stuff...I'm learning a lot about camera's.

I definitely can tell a difference, the bottom one has more warm tones & detail. Great family photo.

I definitely can tell a difference, the bottom one has more warm tones & detail. Great family photo.

Thanks Bruce appreciated mate.

Just like manipulating film in a darkroom, digital images need manipulation.

These were yesterday of my daughter in law and newest Grandson's 1st Birthday, just from a phone camera but you can see what a difference
Lightroom and a couple of minutes of editing can lift just a phone pic.


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Hi Jim, That is a wonderful photograph and you have tweaked it perfectly..!!!

Gil