On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 06:04:55PM -0500, Christine Aguila wrote: > Excellent, Larry. Ill be sure to pass this info on. Thanks! Cheers, > Christine
I sort of keep my eyes open on this. I've got a whole drawer full of AIS glass, some very nice lenses. At some point, I'll be able to buy a digital camera to use them for less than it would cost to buy them. > > > > 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. -- 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.
