Excellent, Larry. Ill be sure to pass this info on. Thanks! Cheers, Christine
On May 28, 2013, at 4:53 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 03:50:35PM -0500, Christine Aguila wrote: >> Hi Everyone: >> >> A friend will be buying a Nikon, and he wants a recommendation. I'd like to >> recommend an equivalent to the K-5--similar specs etc. Would the D90 be the >> one to recommend? > > The D7000 came out at the same time as the K-5 and had the same sensor. > The D7100 is an upgrade to that. > > The D7000/71000 have the advantage that they will work well with the old > AIS manual focus lenses. Even the old (spotmatic era) Nikon lenses can be > modified to work with AIS bodies, with full metering. > The D90 will only meter with the autofocus lenses. > > Apart from low light focus, and a tendancy to splatter lubricant on the sensor > for the first 2,000 frames, the D600, is a very nice, relatively affordable > full frame sensor camera (which will also work with all the nikon lenses). > > A lot of the low end nikons will only work well with autofocus lenses that > have their own internal autofocus motors. > > >> >> Cheers, Christine >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > -- > Larry Colen [email protected] http://red4est.com/lrc > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
