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I am a new member to this forum, and decided to register after buying a 14N and Pro slr n. I thought the first body i bought was the PRO SLR but i made a big mistake.

I registered for this forum from the UK during a business trip but live in the Netherlands.

I found many useful tips, and downloaded the new firmware i found here mentioned. I like to thank the person that makes it available.

I also use other equipment from Nikon, but m ust say i am very happy with the pro slr/n. When i bought the D300 , i found the D3 to expensive, but the PRO SLR N is for me a very nice alternative for full frame.

Only sad thing sofar is that my 85 2.8 PC does not fit on the kodak bodies .....

THe 14N only has 8200 shutter movements and was from a person that took pictures from watches with this camera. The PRO SLR has 25000 shutter movements.
I hope to use these gems for many more years !!!

Dear Milco, Welcome to the Kodak Krazy Gang!
J M Hughes (14nx user)

James M Hughes said:

Dear Milco, Welcome to the Kodak Krazy Gang!
J M Hughes (14nx user)

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Hear Hear!

Where Where?

There There!

My 14n works just fine so don't regret buying yours.

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The photograph isolates and perpetuates a moment of time: an important and revealing moment, or an unimportant and meaningless one, depending upon the photographer's understanding of his subject and mastery of his process. -Edward Weston
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Milco van Klingeren wrote:
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Milco van Klingeren said:

THe 14N only has 8200 shutter movements and was from a person that
took pictures from watches with this camera. The PRO SLR has 25000
shutter movements.
I hope to use these gems for many more years !!!

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As do we all! Although (the mechanical bits of) these Nikon mount cameras are heavily based on parts derived from the Nikon F80/N80 SLR camera, the shutter mechanism was however an upgraded version to make it more duarable than the original one, the N80 camera being intended mainly for enthusiast/semi-pro use only. It is understood that a life expectancy in excess of 100,000 clicks is reasonable, although the same does not necessarily apply to the electronic components, unfortunately.

One other bit of advice to pass on, is that these cameras are very intolerant of certain brands of media, either of the CF or SD variety. You are strongly recommended to source only Lexar branded media if distance buying, or cannot easily exchange/refund any other media, should it prove to be incompatible. Incompatibility can also be difficult to diagnose, as various symptoms can arise which may or may not point towards the problem lying with the media itself.

If any such oddities or malfunctions occur, (anything from card write failure messages to corrupted images, for example) then you are advised to carry out the 2-Button Reset procedure as detailed in the electronic User Guide PDF, and try a different media, preferably using a Lexar, in order to establish the source of the problem.

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Kind regards,
Nigel
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Welcome--

Having both cameras puts you in a very enviable position, as many ask which produced better results at base ISO.

As written, don't feel bad about the purchase. When you have some spare time, please do a little experimenting for the group. Take some identical images with both cameras, at base ISO, then post some results and let us know what you think.

As you will read, it is a small, but open group. We may ruffle a feather amongst the group from time to time...But, for the most part, there is a lot of freely offered advice to those who ask.

Looking forward to some images.

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Rick

I've found life just doesn't fit in 1 camera or manufacturer vision.

It's great to see new members in our old clunker board. Picked up a nikon d300 for things the kodak can't do but the kodak remains my go to camera.

FWIW i forgot the reset trick and was having all sorts of niggles with my SLR/c all of which straightened out with the reset trick. I use hitachi micro drives with good success.

pics ???

good luck

bill vann

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One other bit of advice to pass on, is that these cameras are very
intolerant of certain brands of media, either of the CF or SD
variety. You are strongly recommended to source only Lexar branded
media if distance buying, or cannot easily exchange/refund any other
media, should it prove to be incompatible. Incompatibility can also
be difficult to diagnose, as various symptoms can arise which may or
may not point towards the problem lying with the media itself.

If any such oddities or malfunctions occur, (anything from card write
failure messages to corrupted images, for example) then you are
advised to carry out the 2-Button Reset procedure as detailed in the
electronic User Guide PDF, and try a different media, preferably
using a Lexar, in order to establish the source of the problem.

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Kind regards,
Nigel
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Nigel,

Thanks for your comment here.

Reliability being the primary criteria, what are the best Lexar CF cards that you would recommend? I'm not familiar with Lexars, so I wouldn't know what to select. I've been using SanKing and am thinking about swapping.

Do you think that higher capacity cards might be less reliable? (For reliability (?) and practical reasons, I tend to shy away from higher capacity cards.)

neil poulsen said:

Thanks for your comment here.

Reliability being the primary criteria, what are the best Lexar CF
cards that you would recommend?

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Any of 'em. But bear in mind that the camera won't be able to take full advantage of the faster write speeds of newer cards.

neil poulsen said:

I'm not familiar with Lexars, so I
wouldn't know what to select. I've been using SanKing and am
thinking about swapping.

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Not heard of those. Sure you don't mean SanDisk? If so, then some work ok, but for total peace of mind, I wouldn't chance them anymore. I'm a Lexar man now! ;-)

neil poulsen said:

Do you think that higher capacity cards might be less reliable? (For
reliability (?) and practical reasons, I tend to shy away from higher
capacity cards.)

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I haven't used the highest capacity cards (ie greater than 4GB) because my studio shots usually go straight to laptop. But others have reported trouble formatting cards higher than 8GB capacity in-camera, as the camera won't show available capacity greater than that. So if using a 16GB card, you may have to format on the computer first to gain access to all available capacity.

As to reliability, I am always of the view that putting too many eggs into one basket could be asking for trouble, especially if using these cards as a longer term storage medium. They have limited read/write cycles, so my inclination would always be to offload the shots onto computer hard drive followed by archive to DVD at the first opportunity.

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Kind regards,
Nigel
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Nigel,

Thanks much for the information. I think I'll keep it to 1 or 2 GB.

Your right, it's SanDisk. And here we're talking about the reliability of memory cells! I think I'll get quite a few of these Lexars.

Neil

neil poulsen said:

Nigel,

Thanks much for the information. I think I'll keep it to 1 or 2 GB.

Your right, it's SanDisk. And here we're talking about the
reliability of memory cells!

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Don't mention it. No, I mean it .... don't mention that 'm' word again .... EVER! Or the little grey-cells cannibal will come to get you ... bwahahahaaaaaa )

neil poulsen said:

I think I'll get quite a few of these Lexars.

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I think I should clarify my last statement a little. There's nothing wrong with SanDisk media per se, just that they don't get along too well in the main with our cameras. The trouble, it would seem, lies in the media's built-in controller software, but let's not go there again.

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Kind regards,
Nigel
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No Problems. Hitachi

Bill Vann

bill vann said:

No Problems. Hitachi

Bill Vann

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Ya, I think the 'available capacity' issues seem to arise beyond the 8GB mark. I think Gabriel Satori reported this finding recently.

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1026&message=28207220&q=Gabriel&qf=m

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Kind regards,
Nigel
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How about the "F" word???

(forgot!)