Hello fellow Nikonian's, (if that is how you spell it). Name is Mark and I have just joined the forum as a place of familiarity and to contribute when I can. Look forward to talking with you folks.

Mark

@ bri4njun....Welcome, Brian, to NRF. Join in and post some photos, videos, or just chat.

Brian, checkin in!

msmoto said:
@ T140Rider...welcome to NRF...there are others who ride bikes...and lived to tell about it...LOL. Please share some of your photos on PAD.

Especially what makes your T140AV different to the rest - Pics please! You show me yours and I'll show you mine....

Ooops, wrong place :)

@ T140Rider...welcome to NRF...there are others who ride bikes...and lived to tell about it...LOL. Please share some of your photos on PAD.

Hi, I' T140AV Rider. The Handle is named after a Triumph Motorcycle. I have the only one of its kind ever made.
I've been using Nikons since 1978 when I bought an FT3. My current gear is as follows
D800,D700 and D2X
70-200 F2.8 VR1
200-400 F4 VR1
24-120 VR
135 Macro
200 Macro
28-300
Sigma 15mm Fisheye
Plus an assorted collection of Bellows and extension tubes.
I'm mainly a wildlife and lansdcape snapper but I do anything really. My Charity calendar this year includes a Coal Fired Chip Shop!

@ waterpork, Yatz, skeudenn, Fizzy69... Welcome to NRF. Please feel free to post in the various threads and also on PAD. Just put up what you shoot and it might even get a comment. Hopefully there is an educational benefit to some of the threads and PAD can be helpful sometimes.

Hi Everyone
I've been lurking on the site for a couple of years now, a member for a few months and today is my first post :-).

I've looked at PAD almost every morning for a couple of years now and the quality of posts continues to amaze me and give me ideas.

I'm from Ireland and been interested in photography since I was a teenager (a long time ago) when I got my first Practica SLR. I moved to Nikon a couple of years ago and now have D300s, D800, 24-70mm 2.8, 70-200mm 2.8, 50mm 1.4 and 105mm 2.5.

Mostly interested in Landscapes, Buildings and some photos of the kids (when they allow me)

Still not worked up the courage to post - although I will shortly.

Thanks guys, I'm looking forward to Christmas day now. I think I'll put my seldom used AF-S 50mm f1.4 G on it. I don't tend to use this on my DSLR's anyway, so it can find a new home in "analogue". All I've got to do now is find a friendly supplier of 35mm film (and a processor).

R8R said:
All my AF-S glass works perfectly with my F100. Fantastic camera, can't see any reason to own any other 35mm film camera these days.

However, most DX glass will be useless.

That's the thing with APS-C. It just isn't 35mm, no matter what we all think, it just isn't.

SkintBrit said:
My cheeky but sweet 17 year old son has just let slip that he's bought me an F100 for Christmas (something to do with me being an old codger, and being the only one still alive who would remember film!!!!). After I give him a stern talking too about respecting his elders, I thought I'd just check.....will all my modern full frame AFS G glass work with it, or will I have some reduced functionality?

All full frame AF-S lenses will AF, I have no idea about VR. It should work though.

SkintBrit said:
My cheeky but sweet 17 year old son has just let slip that he's bought me an F100 for Christmas (something to do with me being an old codger, and being the only one still alive who would remember film!!!!). After I give him a stern talking too about respecting his elders, I thought I'd just check.....will all my modern full frame AFS G glass work with it, or will I have some reduced functionality?

All my AF-S glass works perfectly with my F100. Fantastic camera, can't see any reason to own any other 35mm film camera these days.

However, most DX glass will be useless.

[NR] admin said:
This is the place where you can introduce yourself. Include your website/blog link if you have one (no spam please).

good morning everybody
I'm in bird photography ( bif ) and landscapes. I live on the west coast of brittany
I' m a video dabbler too.
when my a77 broke down I wanted the new a99 but it couldn't be had in france for love or money. Then I remembered that before I had loved the d300 and came back to Nikon and a d800. Although I miss some of the the reach of dx ( and the 500 af mirror minolta )I am getting my bearings.The 1.2 and 1.5 dx crop modes are handy.
Video is good enough butI relly miss the a77s articulated screen for video.
I use a 70-300 usd + sigma 150-500 os. I should get a 300mm f2.8 + tcs today or tomorrow
apart from photography, I am in traditional Celtic music and languages. I organize ceilidhs in the Breton language.I have been studying Ireland's language and landscapes for a few years now...

I've been a lurker for a while and felt that it's high time to join the party. Used to shoot film but my daughter fell in love with photography and now we have something to do together.

I consider myself a landscape/nature shooter and an aspiring "strobist".

I'm shooting DX these days because I like the reach for shooting birds.

Current rig:
D7000 with a couple of DX, FX and a bunch of older film lenses.
For some reason, I tend to favor the close and wide lenses.

Thanks bjrichus, yes I saw that already, but being from Ken I took it with a pich of salt! :-) We'll see. Any quirks on an F100 I should be aware of?

SkintBrit said:I thought I'd just check.....will all my modern full frame AFS G glass work with it, or will I have some reduced functionality?

Dear old Ken has a handy-dandy chart for this kind of thing:

http://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/compatibility-lens.htm

About three quarters of the way down the page are the "mid-price" film SLR's, along with the F100.

If he is correct you will be good, with some metering restrictions.

My cheeky but sweet 17 year old son has just let slip that he's bought me an F100 for Christmas (something to do with me being an old codger, and being the only one still alive who would remember film!!!!). After I give him a stern talking too about respecting his elders, I thought I'd just check.....will all my modern full frame AFS G glass work with it, or will I have some reduced functionality?

Hi everyone
I am Zhang Junkai. Junkai is my first name. I am from mainland China, now study as a college student in Indiana, USA. New to photography. I am considering to buy a Nikon DSLR in the coming winter break. I used my uncles d40 and sigma18-200 for some days. Hope everyone have good time here!

captjamo
Brad

Welcome both of you to NRF.... lots of interesting and often good information.here on NRF.

Hello my name is Brad, I do not have a website yet but will eventually put one up. I just recently purchased a Nikon D7000 with the 18-105 kit lens and hopefully more lenses in the future! Hope everyone is enjoying the holidays!

Hey everyone. captjamo here. Regular middle aged guy just getting into photography. I have a D5100 with 18-55mm, 55-200mm and just ordered the Nikkor 40mm. Already I am enjoying shooting nature, architecture, sunset/sunrise vistas, botany and insect macros and, of course, portraits of my beautiful grandchildren. Glad to be logged in here. Looking forward to learning a great deal more about this wonderful area of interest.

@Tord..... Welcome to NRF. Great history.... I suspect you are older than 20 years old.. like a lot of us :-)

Hope to see some of your photos on PAD

Hi all,

Time to introduce myself, after having been a member here for a few months:

My name is Tord, and I am presently employed as a bus driver, but I have done a lot in my life: conscript in the Swedish Air Force, dish washer, security officer, firefighter, editor, editor-in-chief, journalist, technical illustrator, car builder, to name a few.

I've got a MA in journalism, but jobs for journalists are scarce around here.

I got my first camera, at a tender age (around nine), and it was a Kodak Brownie Starlet, which had fix focus, and two settings - one for B&W and one for color (the aperature changed between the two settings, that's all). No batteries, nothing, but I managed to build myself a flash that work OK.

Then it was my sister's beau that had started to earn money (he was a bit older than she), so he decided to scrap his old camera gear (Edixa Reflex, made in W.Germany in 1957), and all those lovely lenses, and bought a Hasselblad setup instead - it was in those days made here in town, so if you had the right contacts you could get one for less than the list price. So I bought his gear for about $100 dollars, which gave me a camera, SLR, with exchangeable prism (like the F-1, and about as heavy!), four lenses - everything from wide to 400mm telephoto lenses - and a lot of other gear.

This is how I learned the basics, but eventually tired to carry all that bulk, so I eventually (decades later) gave it all away, and meanwhile had turned to Minox 35 - two, each costing as much as three times the sum I had paid for that big kit! One with color slide film, and one with B&W - usually Tri-X.

I carried them with me every day for years and eventually wore them down - that a girl borrowed one, and that got dunked with her, by her sea scout patrol, didn't help a bit!

Then I turned to Konica Big Mini compacts, very durable, and with good optics, but eventually the digital era struck me, so I bought a Konica digital compact - as I knew I liked their optics (still do).

That was followed by other compacts, and eventually a row of Pentax DSLRs (K-x, K-7 & K-5), and a number of lenses. Eventually, I bought a Nikon V1 to my wife, but she opted for the Olympus OM-D E-M5, that ran rings around her K-7, performance wise.

I then inherited the V1, and after a few months bought a TF1, and a few lenses (new and antique), and that lead to a D3200, and eventually a D600! But before that almost all the Pentax gear was sold, and I haven't been sad about that one minute (well, maybe one minute).

So I shoot single birds on the ground with the V1, and AF-S 70-300 VR, groups in the air with the D3200, and heaps of birds with the D600, preferably long-legged ones ;-)!

Good night evrybody!
I chanced across this forum the other day looking for info on d800 continuous video af on dpreview.

I like learning the tricks of the cameras I have, possibly to make them do what they are not supposed to be able to do.I love it when people help us learn simple tricks, that make it worth our while again ! I remember the thrill of using a canon af to nex autofocus adapter or the la ea2 with huge minolta lenses!

I have owned a d300 before then switched to a77 because of video capabilities for wildlife photography. Before that I I was a long time minolta user ( 5d a100 a350 a450 a55 a900 ). i also used an eos 5d, an eos 1d ( mk1 ) and e3.
I love 400, 500 lenses, old 300 f2.8 ( sigma, tokina )

My a77 broke down some time ago, and an a99 culdn't be had for love or money in france until late december, so I called it a day and and answered the call of the 36 megapixel muse

apart from birding, bif and landscape photography, I am also involved in celtic languages and singing.