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Wish Me Luck
Posted by
Stoker
on 04 Jun, 2023 11:29
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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)
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I'd say that is a big leap from a pocket Cannon! Hope it is all (and more) that you hope for ;-)
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#2 Reply
Posted by
Stoker
on 04 Jun, 2023 13:29
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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!!!
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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.
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#4 Reply
Posted by
Stoker
on 04 Jun, 2023 17:05
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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!?!?
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#5 Reply
Posted by
Jim
on 04 Jun, 2023 17:59
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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.
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#6 Reply
Posted by
Stoker
on 04 Jun, 2023 20:27
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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!!!
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#7 Reply
Posted by
Jim
on 04 Jun, 2023 20:33
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Daniel, the BIGGEST thing that disappoints film photographers going to digital is the images straight out of the camera.
ALL digital images (and I can't stress this enough) need post production processing tweaking.
Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop are the mainstays, but there are free suites to try.
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This is "Great" stuff...I'm learning a lot about camera's.
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#9 Reply
Posted by
Jim
on 04 Jun, 2023 20:56
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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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I definitely can tell a difference, the bottom one has more warm tones & detail. Great family photo.
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#11 Reply
Posted by
Stoker
on 04 Jun, 2023 21:32
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Arg!!!
I haven't done darkroom work since before the twelfth of never, like in the late 60's when just learning on b&w. Since then, I have relied on film selection, lens selection and camera manipulation to control exposure, focus and depth of field so that the image that came back from Agfa, Fuji or Kodak processing was the final product I was after! Not a whole lot you can do with an image on a slide, after it comes back from outsourced processors, unless you are then going to print it as well. Mostly I just projected them, and still do. Have had very few ever printed. Yes, I do understand that with a phone or a pocket camera, it is hard to make the image be just what you would want it to be without later tweaking, but with a top line SLR it should be possible. I hope so anyway!?!?
Postproduction editing seems anti-thematic to me, especially considering I'm constantly at war (and losing), with my confuser, at which I am especially NOT COMPETENT, so having to take images into the computer to manipulate them seems very much like a loose / loose scenario to me!!!
My main technique to get quality shots has always been to get something truly worthy in front of the lens, and then do the best I can with what I've got, to record that spectacular image!
Well, time will tell I suppose, but here I go anyway?!?!
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#12 Reply
Posted by
Jim
on 04 Jun, 2023 23:01
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I definitely can tell a difference, the bottom one has more warm tones & detail. Great family photo.
Thanks Bruce appreciated mate.
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#13 Reply
Posted by
RedRyder
on 05 Jun, 2023 10:06
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Hi Daniel, Congrats...!!!
The Nikon 750 should prove an extremely capable piece of hardware.
I have a D90 that is not in the same league but quite good.
I find myself these days using my S22 Ultra for much of my photos and videos.
Gil
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#14 Reply
Posted by
RedRyder
on 05 Jun, 2023 10:08
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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
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