Boudewijn van der Drift

The film started running out. Though my F-100 still was doing fine. Still had most of 40 feet film in a dispenser (to fill into official Nikon reloadable cartridges). Got a Panasonic LX3 instead, ...

Yes, bluetooth is extra frugal with power when the camera is switched off or out of range. The phone will only poll once in while if the camera has become active. Depending on the phone OS. I have ...

start AF tracking. This is the only lens I use that with. And my only one with a programmable button. Can reach it with tripodmount on my handpalm. Left elbow in my stomach. Feels like my UZI in ...

Not really. I think there are bodies enough in the Z range. Maybe that is why I never bought a Nikon DSLR after my F-100 film one. Too much choice. Incompatible lenses. Having one prime plus Z ...

Good idea, but no. The Z TC's won't teleconvert the FTZ. There is an optical baffle inside the FTZ in the way.

Well, as the Dutch saying about many things in life goes: Better to be embarrassed with it, than to be embarrassed without it. How about the proverbial smear of vaseline, on a UV filter I hope or ...

OK, put my caliper to it: With forward lenshood and tripodmount attached the distance from top of viewfinder to top of zipper is 45 mm . Still no TC2x but Nikon says it is 32.5 mm flange to flange. ...

Waauw, thanks, that SB-500 is cleverer than I thought! And the lady cleverer than me. I use it maybe twice a year. But it is always a big save then. Plus religiously every month I switch it on, ...

Sure, there are always special situations. And a Z should be able to cater for all that. But that could be in menu items. Maybe put Auto also in the menu. And then the (Auto)PASMU(1-3) knob could ...

mm, I agree the delete on camera explanation is not satisfying. Looking at the heron picture, how can you delete one picture, and then obtain a (partial?, edited? thumbnail?) copy of another pictur ...

Hm, this happened long ago already. When shooting slides or other film with fixed ISO you were quite limited in exposure. PASM modes were useful then. When you felt strongly about a shuttertime, ...

There is a table of compatible Nikon speedlights/flashes in the manual. I use the SB-500, small, highly compatible.

Yes, and I never understood why Nikon wandered into DX lenses and bodies in the first place. Sometimes I think they throw things on the market, in the hope that the sales figures will tell them ...

Say a 2 tonne Tesla with maybe a 100 kW electrical motor is not a "High Current Area" by a long shot. Hybrids probably have half that or less. When accessing such an area you probably need to do a ...

OK, no answers, so I took the plunge eventually. One body and this lens overflow my backpack. The Z6|Z7 + 70-200 with tripodmount and reversed lensshade fits. Tightly. I will try later if taking ...

I think corona was a boost for selling cameras and gear. Lots of people had more time, and photography can often be done at sufficient people distance, or in the outdoors. Maybe weddings were often ...

It is lossless compression. That is special because compression usually means losses. So this kind of compression is just as good as the original itself, except there was less size reduction. It ...

Though the physical length of a lens (+ the mount to sensor depth) is not always equal to the focal length, it is usually close. (That was the original meaning of a telefocus vs a retrofocus lens) ...

Right, you cannot. So to say, when you are not in U1-3, you are in U0 the 4th U, and that is the one you can save via the menu as U1-3. When you dial to Ux, you are loading that setting into U0, ...

I use my rocketblower. Doing it at every battery change, never had it since. Clearly overkill, but the blower lays ready where my charger is. Leaving the eyecup in place.